Seizing
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When you are grown up you will be able to judge.''There is nobody better than you!...' he cried out in desperation through his tears, and
seizing
her by her shoulders he hugged her with all his might, his arms trembling with the effort.
'And what attraction can there be about me as I am...''Ah!' he exclaimed,
seizing
his head in his hands.
'Well, Mary Vlasevna, darling?' she asked,
seizing
the hand of the midwife who came toward them with a beaming but preoccupied expression.
Seizing
his cold hands in her perspiring ones she pressed them to her face.
On other evenings, without any apparent reason, she would be overcome by a panic of modesty and hasten to slip between the sheets as if she felt the hands of this lad
seizing
her.
A flame came into Deneulin's eyes, and his fist, that of a man who liked strong government, was clenched, for fear of yielding to the temptation of
seizing
one of them by the neck.
Then, as they cried still louder, asking for bread, she burst into tears, and dropped on to the floor,
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them in one embrace with the little invalid; then, for a long time, her tears fell in a nervous outbreak which left her limp and worn out, stammering over and over again the same phrase, calling for death: "O God! why do You not take us?
In vain they laughed to deceive each other; despair was gradually
seizing
them.
Emma
seizing
hold of the cigar case threw it quickly to the back of the cupboard.
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them by the collars of their coats, he lifted them from the ground, and deposited them on their knees on the stones of the choir, firmly, as if he meant planting them there.
I will be your people, your country; I will tend, I will love you!""How sweet you are!" he said,
seizing
her in his arms.
"I shall be there," he cried,
seizing
her hands, which she disengaged.
And
seizing
Justin by the collar of his blouse, he shook a book out of his pocket.
Trembling at the thought of losing him for ever, her passion carried her to the point of
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Julien's hand, which, in his distraction, he had allowed to rest upon the back of a chair.
'A man of my sort owes it to himself to make up for this check'; and,
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the moment at which she passed from one room to another, he did what he considered his duty by giving Madame de Renal a kiss.
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a moment in which a lull in her husband's exclamations gave her a chance to make herself heard:'I cannot get away from my original idea,' said Madame de Renal, 'Julien ought to go for a holiday.
'His ideas are so extravagant, so enthusiastic, so independent...''Look,' said Mademoiselle de La Mole, 'there is your independent man, bowing to the ground before M. Descoulis, and
seizing
his hand.
But the adroitness with the want of which we are reproaching him would have debarred the sublime impulse of
seizing
the sword which, at that moment, made him appear so handsome in the eyes of Mademoiselle de La Mole.
'This is what I cannot endure,' cried Mathilde,
seizing
the letter; 'you are forgetting me entirely, me who am your wife.
He thought of
seizing
the opportunity to escape from the world unknown; but he had still some hope of seeing Madame de Renal again, and was desperately in love.
Pianist, thereupon, starts prelude to the Admiral's song, and Harris,
seizing
what he considers to be a favourable opening in the music, begins.]
Ten minutes go by, and the first man gives a yell and goes mad, and dances on the rope, and tries to pull it straight by
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hold of the first piece that comes to his hand and hauling at it.
Then he dashed on his great-coat and hat, and,
seizing
his umbrella, made for the front door.
The sound of the word was enough to set the doctor in motion, and
seizing
his implements of office, he went in quest of this new applicant.
Sergeant Hollister turned promptly on his heel, and
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big saber, the steel was glittering by the firelight, in the twinkling of an eye; but perceiving the intruder to be the peddler, who stood near the open door that led to the lean-to in the rear, he began to fall back towards the position of the black, with a military intuition that taught him to concentrate his forces.
"This injurious treatment shall meet with its reward," cried the other,
seizing
the offered weapon.
It was neither the place, nor was there time, to question, or to make distinctions;
seizing
both in his arms, with gigantic strength, he bore them through the smoke.
asked Frances, pitying his emotions deeply, but eagerly
seizing
upon every circumstance to prolong the interview.
"Yes, yes, my good fellow; march," cried Dunwoodie, gladly
seizing
an excuse to linger.
In the next place, when a woman is thus left desolate and void of counsel, she is just like a bag of money or a jewel dropped on the highway, which is a prey to the next comer; if a man of virtue and upright principles happens to find it, he will have it cried, and the owner may come to hear of it again; but how many times shall such a thing fall into hands that will make no scruple of
seizing
it for their own, to once that it shall come into good hands?
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