Beheld
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Richard looked around, and
beheld
the jovial Friar on his knees, telling his rosary, while his quarter-staff, which had not been idle during the skirmish, lay on the grass beside him.
This issue of the combat all had foreseen; but although the spear of Ivanhoe did but, in comparison, touch the shield of Bois-Guilbert, that champion, to the astonishment of all who
beheld
it reeled in his saddle, lost his stirrups, and fell in the lists.
The Earl of Essex, when he
beheld
them pause in their assembled force, dashed the rowels into his charger's sides, and galloped backwards and forwards to array his followers, in opposition to a band so formidable.
There Passepartout
beheld
beautiful fir and cedar groves, sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar-trees, holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries of Confucius, and interminable streets, where a perfect harvest of rose-tinted and red-cheeked children, who looked as if they had been cut out of Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short-legged poodles and yellowish cats, might have been gathered.
Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Fix raised their heads, and
beheld
Colonel Proctor.
Instead, all alone, sitting upright on the rug, and gazing with gravity at the blaze, I
beheld
a great black and white long-haired dog, just like the Gytrash of the lane.
"I knew," he continued, "you would do me good in some way, at some time;--I saw it in your eyes when I first
beheld
you: their expression and smile did not"--(again he stopped)--"did not" (he proceeded hastily) "strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
Three women were got to help; and such scrubbing, such brushing, such washing of paint and beating of carpets, such taking down and putting up of pictures, such polishing of mirrors and lustres, such lighting of fires in bedrooms, such airing of sheets and feather-beds on hearths, I never beheld, either before or since.
And as for the vague something--was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression?--that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals,
beheld
still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves.
"You have seen love: have you not?--and, looking forward, you have seen him married, and
beheld
his bride happy?""Humph!
Then I thought of Eliza and Georgiana; I
beheld
one the cynosure of a ball-room, the other the inmate of a convent cell; and I dwelt on and analysed their separate peculiarities of person and character.
While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had
beheld
the fount of fruition, and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple.
I walked a little while on the pavement after tea, thinking of you; and I
beheld
you in imagination so near me, I scarcely missed your actual presence.
Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone,
beheld
a form, which announced the realisation of my dream: but I was presently undeserved.
I proceeded: at last my way opened, the trees thinned a little; presently I
beheld
a railing, then the house--scarce, by this dim light, distinguishable from the trees; so dank and green were its decaying walls.
The Baron chanced to come by; he
beheld
the cause and effect, and, without hesitation, saluted Candide with some notable kicks on the breech and drove him out of doors.
Here lay a number of old men covered with wounds, who
beheld
their wives dying with their throats cut, and hugging their children to their breasts, all stained with blood.
Candide, who
beheld
all that passed and saw his benefactor one moment rising above water, and the next swallowed up by the merciless waves, was preparing to jump after him, but was prevented by the philosopher Pangloss, who demonstrated to him that the roadstead of Lisbon had been made on purpose for the Anabaptist to be drowned there.
He thought he
beheld
Miss Cunegund; he did behold her -it was she herself.
I was dreadfully shocked at the burning of the two Jews, and the honest Biscayan who married his godmother; but how great was my surprise, my consternation, and concern, when I
beheld
a figure so like Pangloss, dressed in a sanbenito and mitre!
Pangloss deceived me most cruelly, in saying that everything is for the best.'"Thus agitated and perplexed, now distracted and lost, now half dead with grief, I revolved in my mind the murder of my father, mother, and brother, committed before my eyes; the insolence of the rascally Bulgarian soldier; the wound he gave me in the groin; my servitude; my being a cook-wench to my Bulgarian captain; my subjection to the hateful Jew, and my cruel Inquisitor; the hanging of Doctor Pangloss; the Miserere sung while you were being whipped; and particularly the kiss I gave you behind the screen, the last day I ever
beheld
you.
I witnessed on this occasion such a battle as you never
beheld
in your cold European climates.
Figure to yourself the distressed condition of the daughter of a Pope, only fifteen years old, and who in less than three months had felt the miseries of poverty and slavery; had been debauched almost every day; had
beheld
her mother cut into four quarters; had experienced the scourges of famine and war; and was now dying of the plague at Algiers.
I have seen bears in my country, but men I have
beheld
nowhere but in El Dorado.
Upon this, turning about to see from whom these words came, he
beheld
Cacambo.
Candide, divided between joy and grief, charmed to have thus met with his faithful agent again, and surprised to hear he was a slave, his heart palpitating, his senses confused, but full of the hopes of recovering his dear Cunegund, sat down to table with Martin, who
beheld
all these scenes with great unconcern, and with six strangers, who had come to spend the Carnival at Venice.
The first objects they
beheld
there, were Miss Cunegund and the old woman, who were hanging some tablecloths on a line to dry.
No one has ever
beheld
such outbreaks among the students!
The crowd hurled itself towards them, and they already
beheld
the frail wooden railing, which separated them from it, giving way and bending before the pressure of the throng.
Nevertheless, when our poet
beheld
quiet reestablished to some extent, he devised a stratagem which might have redeemed all.
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