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The GDP difference is hard to estimate, because it is hard to project people’s behavior in the
midst
of 1.5-induced pandemonium.
In the
midst
of their conversation they heard the snorting of horses and the scraping of wheels on the gravel of the avenue.
What do you think of that!' said Oblonsky, beaming with a joyous smile, as he suddenly appeared in the
midst
of the crowd.
No tree could be seen against the sky, and the road unrolled as straight as a pier in the
midst
of the blinding spray of darkness.
All again fell asleep; the women and the little ones resuming their slumber in the
midst
of wider beds.
In the
midst
of the white steam and the whistling of the escapes a stoker was occupied in piling up one of the furnaces, the heat of which could be felt as far as the threshold; and the young man was approaching glad of the warmth, when he met a new band of colliers who had just arrived at the pit.
And this gross good-natured joke increased the laughter of the men, who expanded their shoulders, half cooked by the stove, while she herself, shaken by laughter, was displaying in the
midst
of them the indecency of her costume, embarrasingly comical, with her masses of flesh exaggerated almost to disease.
He was in front of the shaft, in the
midst
of a vast hall swept by currents of air.
This lasted as long as he could see light, through the two reception stories, in the
midst
of the whirling by of the scaffolding.
Stupid of him, still to take her for a boy!Were his eyes out?"It's in your eye that you've got my elbow!" she replied, in the
midst
of a storm of laughter which the astonished young man could not account for.
shouted Zacharie, seeing the new putter hoist himself up awkwardly in the
midst
of the coal, his arms embarrassed by four pieces of oak.
In the
midst
of his labour he had been lying on his back, with dreamy eyes, thinking over a game of hockey of the night before.
Men were constantly moving around the shaft, pulling the signal cords, pressing on the arms of levers, in the
midst
of this spray in which their garments were soaked.
He got into one tram, and the head captain into another, the signal was sounded five times, ringing for the butcher s meat, as they said for the masters; and the cage flew up in the air in the
midst
of a gloomy silence.
It seemed to him that he had lived years from his arrival on the pit-bank, in the
midst
of squalls, to those hours passed under the earth on his belly in the black passages.
Towards the right the pit-bank hid the view, colossal as a barricade of giants, already covered with grass in its older part, consumed at the other end by an interior fire which had been burning for a year with a thick smoke, leaving at the surface in the
midst
of the pale grey of the slates and sandstones long trails of bleeding rust.
For forty years he had struggled without yielding, in the
midst
of continual obstacles: early searches unsuccessful, new pits abandoned at the end of long months of work, landslips which filled up borings, sudden inundations which drowned the workmen, hundreds of thousands of francs thrown into the earth; then the squabbles of the management, the panics of the shareholders, the struggle with the lords of the soil, who were resolved not to recognize royal concessions if no treaty was first made with themselves.
And the village, built altogether in the
midst
of the vast plain, and edged by its black roads as by a mourning border, had no touch of joyousness about it save the regular bands of its red tiles, constantly washed by showers.
However, the household lived very happily, in the
midst
of chatter, of scandals which circulated concerning the husband's complaisance and the wife's lovers.
Vegetables for Levaque's soup, potatoes and leeks, lay about on a corner of the table, half-peeled, taken up and dropped a dozen times in the
midst
of continual gossiping.
When M. Hennebeau had seated the ladies in the carriage, which went off in the direction of Marchiennes, there was a final explosion of clattering voices, all the women gesticulating and talking in each other's faces in the
midst
of a tumult as of an ant-hill in revolution.
It was thus that Father Mouque was ending his old age in the
midst
of love.
But the engine, with its great steel limbs starred with copper shining up above in the shade, no longer attracted his attention, nor the cables which flew by with the black and silent motion of a nocturnal bird, nor the cages rising and plunging unceasingly in the
midst
of the noise of signals, of shouted orders, of trains shaking the metal floor.
Twice he saw them on his approach tumble down in the
midst
of a field, where the motionless stalks afterwards remained dead.
His vague mystic's eyes followed the smoke in the
midst
of a dream; his left hand sought occupation in nervous gropings; and he usually ended by installing a tame rabbit on his knees, a large doe with young, who lived at liberty in the house.
In the
midst
of this monotonous life, always beginning over again, an accident had occurred.
They made little noise in the
midst
of the chatter from door to door, in the coming and going of women in a constant uproar of calls and replies, of objects borrowed, of youngsters hunted away or brought back with a slap.
And the mother remained alone, in the
midst
of her scattered children, without strength to leave her chair, where she was pouring out a second glass of boiling coffee, which she drank in little sips.
Mouque and Bonnemort, with their faces towards the ground, in the
midst
of the tumult preserved a silence of profound approbation.
Then they accompanied their comrade in the
midst
of the growing crowd.
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