Passing
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One night M.Hennebeau had a suspicion when he heard naked feet
passing
his door.
As the servant was
passing
round the crayfish he took three of them without knowing what he was doing and began to break their claws with his teeth.
Doors banged; a breath of terror was
passing
through the neighbouring rooms.
His head became exalted, a red gaiety arose out of his crisis of black sadness, chasing away doubt, and making him ashamed of this
passing
cowardice of an hour.
One evening, as he was coming back and
passing
near Réquillart, he perceived an old woman who had fainted by the roadside.
Then,
passing
behind them:"Now, you must stay there five minutes without turning.
He was
passing
before the Avantage when, just then, the rabbit came out on to the road.
Soon the carriage was
passing
over the plain.
For the last few minutes groups of miners had been constantly
passing
the carriage; they went by in silence, with sidelong looks at the luxurious equipage which forced them to stand aside.
And when a new stoppage occurred oaths broke out, and all went on climbing, hustling each other,
passing
over each other's bodies to arrive at all costs.
It was a joke of Jeanlin's; he had manufactured a sling with a piece of cord, and had just sent a little
passing
greeting to the Grégoires.
A pedlar who was
passing
informed them that the military were descending from the Crévecoeur side.
Just then, two kilometres away from the first houses, a little beyond the crossways where the main road cut the Vandame road, Madame Hennebeau and the young ladies had witnessed the
passing
of the mob.
"Take out your scent-bottles, the sweat of the people is
passing
by!" murmured Négrel, who, in spite of his republican convictions, liked to make fun of the populace when he was with ladies.
Yes, it was these things which were
passing
along the road; it was the force of nature herself, and they were receiving the terrible wind of it in their faces.
She was struggling, believing that those savages were still
passing
by, and repeating that she did not want to see them.
The rush of women increased, and fearing they would be carried away, he adopted the desperate method of pushing his aunt and the girls before him, in order to reach the front steps, by
passing
through the besiegers.
But the women were already coming back, turning round and
passing
beneath the manager's windows.
Along the roads the
passing
patrols alone made a muddy mess with their stamping.
The evening before he had chatted with some mates, and he felt that breaths of spite and suspicion were
passing
over him, those first breaths of unpopularity which forerun defeat.
An inky cloud was just then
passing
over the moon; they could no longer even distinguish their faces, their breaths were mingled, their lips were seeking each other for that kiss which had tormented them with desire for months.
But he did not turn away, standing at the same place with his eyes on the house, anxious as to what was
passing
within.
That wind
passing
above had perhaps swept over the moors.
They wanted to prevent him from
passing.
It was his favourite walk, a grass-covered path two leagues long,
passing
straight beside this geometrical water-way, which unrolled itself like an endless ingot of molten silver.
For half an hour he had been looking at the colliers who were returning to work in the darkness,
passing
by with the dull tramp of a herd.
Among the men
passing
by, whose faces he could not distinguish, he had just recognized one by his walk.
In the misty sky, of a dirty grey colour, rusty clouds were slowly
passing
by.
He galloped on and on, bending his head, drawing up his feet,
passing
through these narrow tubes in the earth, filled by his great body.
Accordingly, the wags claimed that this slippery rascal had waylaid some
passing
telegram and was making the most of it.
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