Glass
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Fortunately the
glass
cases were solidly secured at the base and had stood fast.
In the face of this imminent new danger, what would happen to our chances for salvation, and how could we prevent this liquid medium from solidifying, then cracking the Nautilus's hull like
glass?
As for mollusks, they consisted of exhibits I had already observed: turret snails, olive shells of the "tent olive" species with neatly intersecting lines and russet spots standing out sharply against a flesh-colored background, fanciful spider conchs that looked like petrified scorpions, transparent
glass
snails, argonauts, some highly edible cuttlefish, and certain species of squid that the naturalists of antiquity classified with the flying fish, which are used chiefly as bait for catching cod.
I stayed there an hour, basking in the aura of the ceiling lights, passing in review the treasures shining in their
glass
cases.
Why did he always offer a
glass
of something to everyone who came?
He said no; she insisted, and at last laughingly offered to have a
glass
of liqueur with him.
She laughed at getting none of it, while with the tip of her tongue passing between her small teeth she licked drop by drop the bottom of her
glass.
He saw her from behind in the
glass
between two lights.
At the crash of the
glass
Madame Bovary turned her head and saw in the garden the faces of peasants pressed against the window looking in at them.
He put down his cigar and ran to swallow a
glass
of cold water at the pump.
She forbade her wearing cotton caps, taught her to address her in the third person, to bring a
glass
of water on a plate, to knock before coming into a room, to iron, starch, and to dress her—wanted to make a lady's-maid of her.
She had bought herself a blotting book, writing case, pen-holder, and envelopes, although she had no one to write to; she dusted her what-not, looked at herself in the glass, picked up a book, and then, dreaming between the lines, let it drop on her knees.
She wanted for her mantelpiece two large blue
glass
vases, and some time after an ivory necessaire with a silver-gilt thimble.
A waltz immediately began and on the organ, in a little drawing room, dancers the size of a finger, women in pink turbans, Tyrolians in jackets, monkeys in frock coats, gentlemen in knee-breeches, turned and turned between the sofas, the consoles, multiplied in the bits of looking
glass
held together at their corners by a piece of gold paper.
The daylight coming through the plain
glass
windows falls obliquely upon the pews ranged along the walls, which are adorned here and there with a straw mat bearing beneath it the words in large letters, "Mr.
Then at the back of the shop, behind the great scales fixed to the counter, the word "Laboratory" appears on a scroll above a
glass
door, which about half-way up once more repeats "Homais" in gold letters on a black ground.
A
glass
of wine?"
The druggist's ears tingled as if he were about to have an apoplectic stroke; he saw the depths of dungeons, his family in tears, his shop sold, all the jars dispersed; and he was obliged to enter a cafe and take a
glass
of rum and seltzer to recover his spirits.
Monsieur Leon sang a barcarolle, and Madame Bovary, senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire; finally, M. Bovary, senior, insisted on having the child brought down, and began baptizing it with a
glass
of champagne that he poured over its head.
The walls of the gardens with pieces of bottle on their coping were hot as the
glass
windows of a conservatory.
Then, pride, and joy of being able to say to herself, "I am virtuous," and to look at herself in the
glass
taking resigned poses, consoled her a little for the sacrifice she believed she was making.
At the end of the church a lamp was burning, the wick of a night-light in a
glass
hung up.
You must get home, Madame Bovary; drink a little tea, that will strengthen you, or else a
glass
of fresh water with a little moist sugar."
She maintained one day, in opposition to her husband, that she could drink off a large
glass
of brandy, and, as Charles was stupid enough to dare her to, she swallowed the brandy to the last drop.
Behind him on the grass the servants were piling up the dirty plates, his neighbours were talking; he did not answer them; they filled his glass, and there was silence in his thoughts in spite of the growing noise.
But when she saw herself in the
glass
she wondered at her face.
When he was coming she filled the two large blue
glass
vases with roses, and prepared her room and her person like a courtesan expecting a prince.
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.
Charles, fearing that she would faint, ran to the refreshment-room to get a
glass
of barley-water.
He had great difficulty in getting back to his seat, for his elbows were jerked at every step because of the
glass
he held in his hands, and he even spilt three-fourths on the shoulders of a Rouen lady in short sleeves, who feeling the cold liquid running down to her loins, uttered cries like a peacock, as if she were being assassinated.
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