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When he reached a dry place he sat down on a hummock, took off his boot and emptied it, then went back to the marsh, drank a little of the rusty water, wetted the heated barrels and bathed his face and hands.
He was an old man, dressed in knitted violet wool with a rabbit-skin cap on his head; while his horse, a great yellow horse, waited with the immobility of stone while they emptied the six trains he drew.
The workman, after having emptied the trains, had seated himself on the earth, glad of the accident, maintaining his savage silence; he had simply lifted his large, dim eyes to the carman, as if annoyed by so many words.
Little by little the stalls emptied, and the miners returned from all the galleries.
In a long, slow gulp, the miner emptied half his glass to sweep away the dust which filled his throat.
They took hold of the handles of the tub and emptied it into the gutter before the door, when Jeanlin came down in dry garments, breeches and a woollen blouse, too large for him, which were weary of fading on his brother's back.
Gradually the settlement was emptied; all the men went off one behind the other, while the girls, watching at the doors, set out in the opposite direction on the arms of their lovers.
After having emptied the mattresses, handful by handful, they had decided the day before to sell the clock for three francs and the room seemed bare and dead now that the familiar tick-tack no longer filled it with sound.
Every settlement was emptied, the women and children themselves set out as if for a walk beneath the great clear sky.
These heads, emptied by famine, saw everything red, and dreamed of fire and blood in the midst of a glorious apotheosis from which would arise universal happiness.
The jets came out with the violence of volleys; the five boilers were emptied with the sound of a tempest, whistling in such a roar of thunder that one's ears seemed to bleed.
Then in two minutes Jean-Bart was emptied.
Jeanlin for a joke, had emptied a lamp down her neck.
In less than a quarter of an hour the fires were overturned, the boilers emptied, the buildings torn down and devastated.
The blow of a shovel, delivered with full force, fractured the metal body; the water escaped and emptied itself, and there was a supreme gurgle like an agonizing death-rattle.
The thing was stamped on his brain in real and terrible images--the brigands rushing forward, then the drawers broken open, the sacks emptied, everything eaten, everything drunk, the house itself carried away, nothing left, not even a stick with which he might go and beg through the villages.
The emptied house was now in its last agony, having reached a final stage of nakedness.
There was a crunching sound; he fell on his back with a heavy thud, as when a sack of plaster is emptied.
One would have said that the passages were being emptied and the mates already returning at a running pace.
The disaster was not complete; one bank of the canal gave way, and the canal emptied itself like one bubbling sheet through one of the cracks.
The crater was being emptied, however, and the water, drunk by the earth, was sinking, and revealing the fearful ruin at the bottom.
But when the Grégoires alighted with the parcels, they knocked in vain; at last they struck their fists against the door, still without reply; the house echoed mournfully, like a house emptied by grief, frozen and dark, long since abandoned.
Then he went back up, emptied his sack, pulled up his stone, and started all over again, the whole process lasting only thirty seconds.
Near 11:30 the ballast tanks emptied, and the submersible rose to the surface of the ocean.
Galloping up to the foot of the steps, it stopped short and emptied its load.
He told her, one after the other, the people he had met, the villages where he had been, the prescriptions he had written, and, well pleased with himself, he finished the remainder of the boiled beef and onions, picked pieces off the cheese, munched an apple, emptied his water-bottle, and then went to bed, and lay on his back and snored.
Then, having emptied some water into a glass, Rodolphe dipped his finger into it, and let a big drop fall on the paper, that made a pale stain on the ink.
He put on white trousers, fine socks, a green coat, emptied all the scent he had into his handkerchief, then having had his hair curled, he uncurled it again, in order to give it a more natural elegance.
He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
CHAPTER 18 A King at VerrieresAre you fit only to be flung down like the corpse of a nation, its soul gone and its veins emptied of blood?
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