Spite
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Many of them, sick with fright after the accident, shaken by nervous tremors, soaked in cold sweats, and the prey of continual nightmares, got up in
spite
of everything, and were as eager as any in their desire to fight against the earth, as though they had a revenge to take on it.
Gradually this hunt excited him; he was, in his turn, seized by a fever of devotion, in
spite
of his ironical indifference to men and things.
He had slid down the ladders, in
spite
of the watchman, and was declaring that he had heard hammering over there, in the first passage of the Guillaume seam.
But in
spite
of her precautions the nails clanked; and those enormous boots stood oppressively in the room.
It was he; she saw the man again; she looked at his hands placed on his knees, the hands of an invalid workman whose whole strength is in his wrists, still firm in
spite
of age.
They delayed and were left fifty metres behind; he was lifting her, in
spite
of her resistance, when the gallery was suddenly stopped up; an enormous block fell in and separated them from the others.
He galloped on in
spite
of everything, grazing himself, leaving shreds of his limbs on the timber.
His hair stood up before the horror of this murder; and yet, in
spite
of the revolt which came from his education, a certain gladness made his heart beat, the animal joy of an appetite at length satisfied.
It was not until the next day that their suffering decided them: they pushed away the body at each mouthful and drank in
spite
of it.
No doubt they knew him and no longer had any
spite
against him; they seemed, on the contrary, to fear him, blushing at the thought that he would reproach them with cowardice.
And she persisted, with her lamp in her hand, frozen amid the draughts in
spite
of the mildness of the season.
The Montsou bourgeois, in their victory, felt the vague uneasiness that arses on the morrow of a strike, looking behind them to see if their end did not lie inevitably over there, in
spite
of all beyond that great silence.
His reason was ripening, he had sown the wild oats of his
spite.
In silence we waited for the outcome of this scene; Conseil, in
spite
of himself, seemed almost fascinated, I was stunned.
"Sir," I replied, flaring up in
spite
of myself, "you're taking unfair advantage of us!
I tried to keep my eyes open, but they closed in
spite
of me.
In
spite
of everything, this strange man hadn't yet succeeded in completely stifling his heart.
In
spite
of everything, I thought that Captain Nemo must have kept up some type of relationship with the shore.
Yonville-l'Abbaye has remained stationary in
spite
of its "new outlet."
The knives were not sharpened, nor the floors waxed; there were iron gratings to the windows and strong bars across the fireplace; the little Homais, in
spite
of their spirit, could not stir without someone watching them; at the slightest cold their father stuffed them with pectorals; and until they were turned four they all, without pity, had to wear wadded head-protectors.
In
spite
of her vapourish airs (as the housewives of Yonville called them), Emma, all the same, never seemed gay, and usually she had at the corners of her mouth that immobile contraction that puckers the faces of old maids, and those of men whose ambition has failed.
In
spite
of the silence Monsieur Lieuvain's voice was lost in the air.
Behind him on the grass the servants were piling up the dirty plates, his neighbours were talking; he did not answer them; they filled his glass, and there was silence in his thoughts in
spite
of the growing noise.
They were in bed when Monsieur Homais, in
spite
of the servant, suddenly entered the room, holding in his hand a sheet of paper just written.
"You were downstairs in the ante-room, ready to go out, standing on the last stair; you were wearing a bonnet with small blue flowers; and without any invitation from you, in
spite
of myself, I went with you.
They had buried it for
spite
in the earth, under the episcopal seat of Monsignor.
In fact, he had to work devilish hard, although he didn't make enough, in
spite
of all people said, to find butter for his bread.
He was not joking; but vanity getting the better of all prudence, Leon, in
spite
of himself protested.
It was a bill for seven hundred francs, signed by her, and which Lheureux, in
spite
of all his professions, had paid away to Vincart.
At last he began to think it was all a joke; someone's spite, the jest of some wag; and besides, if she were dead, one would have known it.
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