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Who could have supposed that that girlish face, so pale and gentle, hid the unshakeable determination to expose himself to the risk of a thousand deaths rather than fail to make his fortune?
Julien had never seen a person so well dressed as this, let alone a woman with so exquisite a complexion, to speak to him in a gentle tone.
This gentle, almost beseeching tone coming from so fine a lady at once made Julien forget what he owed to his reputation as a Latin scholar.
His father tried to beat him once, the child was ill for a whole week, and yet it was quite a gentle blow.''How different from me,' thought Julien.
CHAPTER 11 Night ThoughtsYet Julia's very coldness still was kind,And tremulously gentle her small handWithdrew itself from his, but left behindA little pressure, thrilling, and so blandAnd slight, so very slight, that to the mindTwas but a doubt.
Lost in a vague and pleasant dream, so foreign to his nature, gently pressing that hand which pleased him as an example of perfect beauty, he gave a divided attention to the rustle of the leaves of the lime, stirred by the gentle night breeze, and to the dogs at the mill by the Doubs, barking in the distance.
The career of a churchman makes one gentle and wise.
I am wandering ...Well, you understand what you must do; be gentle, polite, never contemptuous with these vulgar personages, I implore you on my knees: they are to be the arbiters of our destiny.
'I shall do nothing of the sort,' the answer came in a tone so gentle as to be almost indifferent, 'I shall let you see them some other day, when you are more yourself.'
The drawing-rooms through which our friends passed on the first floor, before coming to the Marquis's study, would have seemed to you, gentle reader, as depressing as they were magnificent.
He was so much impressed by M. de Beauvoisis's gentle manners, by his air at once formal, important and self-satisfied, by the admirable elegance of his surroundings, that in a twinkling all thought of being insolent forsook him.
'I told you that I have a married sister in Provence; she is still pretty, good, gentle; she is an excellent mother, faithful to all her duties, pious without bigotry.'
That young man who is so polished, so gentle, so brave, who combines in his own person all the advantages of birth and fortune, any one of which would set my heart so at ease!
MACHIAVELLIThe grave personage continued; one could see that he knew; he set forth with a gentle and moderate eloquence, which vastly delighted Julien, the following great truths:(1) England has not a guinea at our service; economy and Hume are the fashion there.
It was necessary to make this gentle person, who perhaps was vastly bored, form the habit of receiving letters that were perhaps a trifle less insipid than her everyday life.
'At the stage I have reached, my friend, you alone could damage me, if you ceased to be gentle and human ...
He was polite and gentle to Mathilde, whom he saw to be exasperated by the most violent jealousy.
Then he slammed the door shut, there was a gentle knocking to which he paid no more attention.
He sent the maid back with the reply that he was on his way, then he went to the wardrobe to change his coat, and in answer to Mrs. Grubach's gentle whining about the nuisance Miss Montag was causing merely asked her to clear away the breakfast things.
K. was able to quietly watch everything as nobody paid any attention to him, the office director took over as leader of the conversation as seemed to be his habit once he had been called forward, the lawyer listened attentively with his hand to his ear, his initial weakness having perhaps only had the function of driving away his new visitors, K.'s uncle served as candle-bearer - balancing the candle on his thigh while the office director frequently glanced nervously at it - and was soon free of his embarrassment and was quickly enchanted not only by the office director's speaking manner but also by the gentle, waving hand-movements with which he accompanied it.
But maybe she's gentle and friendly towards you, that's the impression you get from the picture.
Big, strong girls like that often don't know how to be anything but gentle and friendly.
"No," said K., "she isn't gentle or friendly, and nor would she be capable of sacrificing herself for me.
If the priest knew of such a possibility he might, if K. asked him, let him know about it, even though he was part of the court himself and even though, when K. had criticised the court, he had held down his gentle nature and actually shouted at K."Would you not like to come down here?"
K. made an involuntary shiver, at which the gentleman gave him a gentle, reassuring tap on the back.
An air of calmness and resignation - of gentle sadness pervaded the room.
It trotted quietly on until its would-be assassin was within a yard of it, and then it turned round and sat down in the middle of the road, and looked at Montmorency with a gentle, inquiring expression, that said:"Yes!
It was not a beautiful face; it was too prematurely aged-looking, too thin and drawn, to be that; but it was a gentle, lovable face, in spite of its stamp of pinch and poverty, and upon it was that look of restful peace that comes to the faces of the sick sometimes when at last the pain has left them.
And the old river had taken her into its gentle arms, and had laid her weary head upon its bosom, and had hushed away the pain.
That gentle voice!
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