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Maigrat, with protruded belly and folded arms, shook his head at every supplication.
But, meanwhile, the hewers could not stand with folded arms, and placards announced that the Company would put up new workings to auction.
When the young man had folded the letter, she questioned him:"Is the news good?
Besides, the family seemed to want for nothing; the father continued his duties as a groom at the Voreux while she, saying that she could not live with folded arms, had become a laundress, which brought her in thirty sous a day.
No doubt he had sworn; only it could not be called life to wait with folded arms for things which would perhaps happen in a hundred years; and, besides, reasons of his own had decided him.
Swathed in blood-soaked linen, his head was resting on a folded pillow.
As if at a signal, every sail was abruptly lowered; arms folded, bodies contracted, shells turned over by changing their center of gravity, and the whole flotilla disappeared under the waves.
She trembled as she blew back the tissue paper over the engraving and saw it folded in two and fall gently against the page.
The gentleman bowed, and as he moved to stretch out his arm, Emma saw the hand of a young woman throw something white, folded in a triangle, into his hat.
Drowsy pigs were burrowing in the earth with their snouts, calves were bleating, lambs baaing; the cows, on knees folded in, were stretching their bellies on the grass, slowly chewing the cud, and blinking their heavy eyelids at the gnats that buzzed round them.
His arms were folded across his knees, and thus lifting his face towards Emma, close by her, he looked fixedly at her.
He walked round it with folded arms, meditating on the folly of the Government and the ingratitude of men.
He said to himself: 'I must have one of these two women'; he realised that he would greatly have preferred to pay his court to Madame Derville; it was not that she was more attractive, but she had seen him always as a tutor honoured for his learning, and not as a working carpenter, with a ratteen jacket folded under his arm, as he had first appeared to Madame de Renal.
BARNAVEWhile he was replacing its ordinary furniture in the room that M. de La Mole had occupied, Julien found a piece of stout paper, folded twice across.
She handed him a letter which, though the seal was broken, was still folded.
"That's all just made up," said Leni with her face bent over K.'s hand, "really he's sitting on a kitchen chair with an old horse blanket folded over it.
Then he carefully folded the things up as if they would still be needed, even if not in the near future.
After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
I had looped it round slowly and cautiously, and tied it up in the middle, and folded it in two, and laid it down gently at the bottom of the boat.
He was so firmly wrapped round and tucked in and folded over, that he could not get out.
Dunwoodie folded her to his heart, and was about to speak, as a trumpet sounded in the southern end of the vale.
Dunwoodie turned to leave the apartment, and he saw Captain Lawton standing with folded arms, contemplating the scene with profound silence.
Dunwoodie folded her in his arms, saluted the mild aunt again and again, and shook Mr. Wharton and the divine repeatedly by the hands.
The youth dwelt on her lovely but pallid features with rapture; and, as he folded her to his heart, exclaimed,-"For your sake, I will, lovely innocent!"
Tom stood amidships, gloomy-browed, and with folded arms, and gave his orders in a low, stern whisper:"Luff, and bring her to the wind!""Aye-aye, sir!""Steady, steady-y-y-y!"
The Black Avenger stood still with folded arms, "looking his last" upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing "she" could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.
I stood with my arms folded, feeling as glum as ever I did in my life, until their cutter was only a square hickering patch of white among the mists of the morning.
"There's a letter here from him," said my father, pointing to a note folded up on the table; "it was in his room.
There we went, all three, by coach: the Major in great spirits and full of stories about the Duke and the Peninsula, while Jim sat in the corner with his lips set and his arms folded, and I knew that he killed de Lissac three times an hour in his heart.
She extended one finger, folded up the others with infinite difficulty, and began to painfully trace letters on the table cover.
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