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The nail-makers violently whipped them on with their voices, shouting out to them in Walloon to sing more, still more, yet a little more, while the spectators, about a hundred people, stood by in mute fascination in the
midst
of this infernal music of a hundred and eighty chaffinches all repeating the same cadence out of time.
The twilight was coming on; the three musicians played furiously; one could only see in the hall the movement of hips and breasts in the
midst
of a confusion of arms.
The parents were there, and besides he still had for her a feeling, half of friendship and half of spite, which prevented him from treating her as a girl to be desired, in the
midst
of the abandonment of their now common life in dressing, at meals, during work, where nothing of them remained secret, not even their most intimate needs.
Up till then he had only felt an instinctive revolt in the
midst
of the inarticulate fermentation among his mates.
Were they beasts to be thus penned together in the
midst
of the fields, so tightly packed that one could not change one's shirt without exhibiting one's backside to the neighbours?
But now the miner was waking up down there, germinating in the earth just as a grain germinates; and some fine day he would spring up in the
midst
of the fields: yes, men would spring up, an army of men who would re-establish justice.
Then, in the
midst
of the angry silence, he added gently:"On the whole, I shouldn't say no if it amuses you; it ruins the one side and kills the other, and that is always so much cleared away.
On pay-day at the Company's Yards, Montsou seemed to be in the
midst
of a fete as on fine Sunday feast-days.
But Mother Brulé thought this cowardly of her son-in-law; she was among the enraged, lean and erect in the
midst
of the group, with her fists stretched towards Montsou.
It was almost night, and the rain increased while they were still filling the settlement with their tears in the
midst
of the screaming helter-skelter of the children.
He was seized with the fury of despair, and could only utter oaths:"My God! my God! my God!"Catherine, Lydie, and Mouquette, who had also rushed up, began to sob and shriek with terror in the
midst
of the fearful disorder, which was increased by the darkness.
This procession beneath the earth, in the
midst
of deep darkness, seemed never to end through galleries which bifurcated and turned and unrolled.
And they all left in the
midst
of this threatening silence.
They felt themselves separated from the world and lost in the
midst
of this deep winter.
Mouquette, moved to tears, quickly went into the shaky hovel which her father had set up in the
midst
of the ruins.
She went on relieving herself by swearing, in the
midst
of this dirty household, already abandoned so long that an unbearable smell was exhaling from the floor.
There were crumbs strewed over the table, and in the very
midst
she saw a forgotten bottle of wine.
And the child, quite alone in the
midst
of this plunder, was enjoying it like a selfish brigand.
And Zacharie joked, with his chaffing indifference for politics; it would be fine to tumble down over there in the
midst
of the mates.
They all came into the
midst
of the rendezvous.
Now he showed by figures the exhaustion of the provident fund, and pointed out the use that had been made of the help sent, briefly excusing the International, Pluchart and the others, for not being able to do more for them in the
midst
of the cares of their conquest of the world.
Hoots arose, and then they were surprised to see Father Bonnemort standing on the trunk and about to speak in the
midst
of the tumult.
These heads, emptied by famine, saw everything red, and dreamed of fire and blood in the
midst
of a glorious apotheosis from which would arise universal happiness.
Soon four hundred workmen had passed from the shed into the receiving-room, in the
midst
of a tumult of gesticulation and shouting.
Voices approved, and the noise began again in the
midst
of violent gesticulation.
Then, in the
midst
of the tumult of the signals, the descent took place.
They were there in the accursed city, in the
midst
of the flames which the passers-by on the plain could see through the fissures, spitting out sulphur and poisonous vapours.
The intention to turn up the wick alone survived in the
midst
of her confused ideas.
He joked, and made up stories, saying that he had just brought her there in the
midst
of all the mates standing in a row.
At last, without any precise information being obtained, the ascent began again, with the same slow, painful movement, in the
midst
of the tread of feet and the dancing of lamps.
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