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But as Catherine was reading aloud their names, written on zinc plates over the mangers, she uttered a slight cry, seeing something suddenly rise before her.
However, a slight movement disturbed her motionless face.
And there was a slight quiver in his voice, a disquiet which he concealed beneath bursts of gaiety.
In spite of the latter's slight importance, its powerful neighbour was enraged at seeing, enclosed within its own sixty-seven communes, this square league which did not belong to it, and after having vainly tried to kill it had plotted to buy it at a low price when in a failing condition.
These roads in the Nord, drawn like a string between manufacturing towns, with their slight curves, their slow ascents, gradually get lined with houses and tend to make the department one laborious city.
It was now forty-three years since Father Bonnemort had taken his wife behind the pit; she was a putter, so slight that he had placed her on a tram to embrace her at ease.
Only one episode interrupted the monotony of the first fortnight: a slight fever which kept him in bed for forty-eight hours with aching limbs and throbbing head, dreaming in a state of semi-delirium that he was pushing his tram in a passage that was so narrow that his body would not pass through.
He must have been about thirty years old, fair and slender, with a delicate face framed by thick hair and a slight beard.
He looked at her, agitated by a slight trembling, and the hard firm face of the man of discipline expressed the secret grief of a wounded heart.
He had rolled a cigarette, and was looking at the other two men with his mild subtle eye, his lips drawn by a slight smile.
In the nave, still new and clean, the arrested task was waiting; the steam in the engine, under pressure, made slight whistling sounds; the cages were hanging motionless to the cables; the trains, abandoned on the way, were encumbering the metal floors.
At first she had felt a slight tingling in her skin.
Balanced in the middle of the shaft he lighted up the walls as he turned round; the leaks between the joints were so slight that his lamp did not suffer.
Something was certainly striking beside his head, violent blows were approaching him; but he had been too lazy to reply, benumbed by immense fatigue; and now he knew nothing, he only dreamed that she was walking before him, and that he heard the slight clank of her sabots.
And a slight shudder passed over the drowsy black country, the vague rumour which precedes awakening.
"Not at all, professor," the captain answered me after a slight hesitation, "since you'll never leave this underwater boat.
I noted the slight overlap of its sheet-iron plates, which resembled the scales covering the bodies of our big land reptiles.
Near the middle of the platform, the skiff was half set in the ship's hull, making a slight bulge.
So we were about 1,800 miles from our starting point, and by a slight change of heading, the Nautilus was bringing us back toward the southeast.
Suddenly a slight movement could be felt over the hull.
But her emotion soon vanished, and, swaying to the rhythm of the orchestra, she glided forward with slight movements of the neck.
Homais introduced himself; he offered his homages to madame and his respects to monsieur; said he was charmed to have been able to render them some slight service, and added with a cordial air that he had ventured to invite himself, his wife being away.
"You will scarcely feel, probably, a slight pain; it is a simple prick, like a little blood-letting, less than the extraction of certain corns."
He had a foot forming almost a straight line with the leg, which, however, did not prevent it from being turned in, so that it was an equinus together with something of a varus, or else a slight varus with a strong tendency to equinus.
With a slight shrug of her shoulders, Emma interrupted him to speak of her illness, which had almost killed her.
Once the man, no doubt bored in his hiding-place, made a slight noise.
And yet there was still a slight want of courage in this eloquence which had suddenly come to him.
But, although extremely sensitive to slight injuries of this sort, she was now quite unconscious of the pain, for almost immediately she felt the polished surface of the pasteboard box.
CHAPTER 11 Night ThoughtsYet Julia's very coldness still was kind,And tremulously gentle her small handWithdrew itself from his, but left behindA little pressure, thrilling, and so blandAnd slight, so very slight, that to the mindTwas but a doubt.
The Bishop addressed him with unction, and did not forget to include a slight touch of confusion, extremely flattering to His Majesty.
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