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Now pumps were set up and a furious struggle was going on; step by step the vanished soil was being violently reconquered.
It was a post of honour which was disputed over, and he became furious when they wished to relieve him after his regulation two hours of labour.
Evidently, when he held her, he must have become furious, constantly pressing, overthrown with her, and stifling her cries to the last groan.
And suddenly, when he felt this ice soaking his coat, he set out in a furious gallop, and was engulfed and lost at the end of one of the haulage galleries.
Their ears began to buzz, they heard the peals of a furious tocsin, the tramp of a flock beneath a storm of hail, going on unceasingly.
The crew called themselves "out-and-out fools" for being hoodwinked by a fairy tale, then grew steadily more furious!
Meanwhile, furious at these goings on, Ned Land gave free rein to his indignation.
There, very puzzled, Ned Land and Conseil watched the crewmen opening the hatches, while a frightful clamor and furious shouts resounded outside.
"Damnation!" exclaimed the furious Canadian.
I'm furious that I have to admit it.
But the wind was blowing a strong gust, and the furious billows would not allow us to face them in a mere skiff.
Whither hurries this crowd like the waves of a furious sea under the torrents of a tropical sun pouring its heat upon our heads?"
She repented of her past virtue as of a crime, and what still remained of it rumbled away beneath the furious blows of her pride.
He could not understand what furious desire for locomotion urged these individuals never to wish to stop.
She seemed but the more beautiful to him for this; he was seized with a lasting, furious desire for her, that inflamed his despair, and that was boundless, because it was now unrealisable.
'Immediately Zingarelli, furious, flew to the bell-rope: "Turn Geronimo out of the Conservatorio," he shouted, seething with rage.
Such is the will of heaven, to show life as it is to young priests, and to inspire in them a disgust with the world and its pomps.''And it is to me that you make these fine speeches'--the abbe Pirard was furious.
The latter was furious at such insolence, and coming from a little Jansenist to boot!'You see what these court nobles are worth who claim to have such power!' the abbe de Frilair would say to his intimates; 'M.
But, except on wet days, and in their moments of furious boredom, which were rare, they were never to be found wanting in politeness.
Since he was asked for the truth, Julien determined to tell his whole story; but with the suppression of two things: his fanatical admiration for a name which made the Marquis furious, and his entire unbelief, which hardly became a future cure.
'That young man must have a furious passion for money, not to go off and leave a girl like that, however rich she may be!' thought Julien.
While Julien, steeped in the prejudices he had derived from books and from memories of Verrieres, was pursuing the chimera of a tender mistress who never gives a thought to her own existence the moment she has gratified the desires of her lover, Mathilde in her vanity was furious with him.
The valet added in an undertone as they were side by side: 'He is furious, beware.'
MIRABEAUJulien found the Marquis furious: for the first time in his life, perhaps, this gentleman was guilty of bad taste; he heaped on Julien all the insults that came to his lips.
'Poor Croisenois,' he said to Mathilde, 'did really behave quite reasonably and honourably towards us; he had every right to hate me after your imprudent behaviour in your mother's drawing-room, and to seek a quarrel with me; for the hatred that follows on contempt is generally furious.'
A furious jealousy and one that was incapable of wreaking vengeance, the prolongation of a hopeless misery (for, even supposing Julien to be saved, how was she to recapture his heart?), the shame and grief of loving more than ever this faithless lover, had plunged Mademoiselle de La Mole in a grim silence from which the zealous attentions of M. de Frilair were no more capable than the rude frankness of Fouque, of making her emerge.
"Of course," said K., "it's in the past now and I've nearly forgotten about it, but at the time it made me furious.
Montmorency set up a furious barking, I shrieked, Harris roared; George waved his hat, and yelled back.
There was one great dent across the top that had the appearance of a mocking grin, and it drove us furious, so that Harris rushed at the thing, and caught it up, and flung it far into the middle of the river, and as it sank we hurled our curses at it, and we got into the boat and rowed away from the spot, and never paused till we reached Maidenhead.
A furious blast roared through the trees, making everything sing as it went.
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