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Marianne's was finished in a very few minutes; in length it could be no more than a note; it was then folded up, sealed, and directed with eager rapidity.
Apparently out of a crack in the earth in fact, as he presently perceived, out of a spot where two waves of plain folded in upon each other and contained a village came a pillar of dust, the heart of which was a bullock-cart.
Tarvin thrust out his under jaw with a motion peculiar to himself, wheeled the colt, and waited without answering, his empty hands folded on the pommel of his saddle.
She studied the hands she had folded in her lap for a moment.
Tarvin gave an unbecoming shout of joy, and folded her in his arms again.
Upon a look from the procurator, accompanied by a smile from Mme. Coquenard, they arose slowly from the table, folded their napkins more slowly still, bowed, and retired.
And he folded her in his arms.
The one was a little billet, genteelly folded, with a pretty seal in green wax on which was impressed a dove bearing a green branch.
He folded the letter fancifully, and took up his pen and wrote:"To Mlle.
But by degrees she overcame the outbursts of her mad passion; and nervous tremblings which agitated her frame disappeared, and she remained folded within herself like a fatigued serpent in repose.
Milady folded her hands, and raising her fine eyes toward heaven, "Lord, Lord," said she, with an angelic meekness of gesture and tone, "pardon this man, as I myself pardon him."
Having formed this resolution, I folded my arms and waited.
Amongst other documents, a sheet of paper, carefully folded, bore the heading of the Danish consulate with the signature of W. Christiensen, consul at Hamburg and the Professor's friend.
Dr. Mortimer drew a folded newspaper out of his pocket.
Out of the envelope he took a half-sheet of foolscap paper folded into four.
He stood with his legs a little separated, his arms folded, his head bowed, as if he were brooding over that enormous wilderness of peat and granite which lay before him.
She stood under the picture with her arms folded across her great body, and her big black eyes looking from one to the other of us.
His face was very red, and the folded blue paper which he carried in his hand shook and crackled in his excitement.
Joe Berks in the meanwhile had swaggered in and stood with folded arms between his seconds in the opposite corner.
Then with a double spring he cleared the outer and inner line of rope, and stood with his arms folded in the centre.
The rusted gates between the crumbling heraldic pillars were folded back, and my uncle flicked the mares impatiently as we flew up the weed-grown avenue, until he pulled them on their haunches before the time-blotched steps.
cried Sir Lothian, standing with his arms folded by the door.
But the strange man who stood before him folded his arms over his breast.
remain, dear sir, with respectful compliments to your lady and daughters, your well-wisher and friend,"WILLIAM COLLINS""At four o'clock, therefore, we may expect this peace-making gentleman," said Mr. Bennet, as he folded up the letter.
At last he folded his arms; then, in a hollow voice,--"Who are you?" he asked Cyrus Harding.
And as Herbert endeavored to seize the hand which had just saved him, the stranger folded his arms, his chest heaved, his look darkened, and he appeared to wish to escape, but making a violent effort over himself, and in an abrupt tone,--"Who are you?" he asked, "and what do you claim to be to me?"
He was bareheaded, his arms folded across his chest, and it was in this posture that in a hoarse voice, speaking like some one who obliges himself to speak, he gave the following recital, which his auditors did not once interrupt:--"On the 20th of December, 1854, a steam-yacht, belonging to a Scotch nobleman, Lord Glenarvan, anchored off Cape Bernouilli, on the western coast of Australia, in the thirty-seventh parallel.
It was folded and fastened to Top's collar in a conspicuous position.
He then folded the quittance, and put it under his cap, adding,--"Peril of thy beard, Jew, see that this be full and ample!"
I am not a man to be moved by a woman's lament for her lover, but this same Lady Rowena suppressed her sorrow with such dignity of manner, that it could only be discovered by her folded hands, and her tearless eye, which trembled as it remained fixed on the lifeless form before her.""Who is this Lady Rowena," said Prince John, "of whom we have heard so much?""A Saxon heiress of large possessions," replied the Prior Aymer; "a rose of loveliness, and a jewel of wealth; the fairest among a thousand, a bundle of myrrh, and a cluster of camphire."
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