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"Oh! superb!" whispered Lucie and Jeanne, stirred in their artistic tastes by the beautiful horror of it.
Cécile, in the hay, no longer stirred; and the others, in spite of the wish to turn away their eyes, could not do so: they were compelled to gaze.
Not a workman stirred, only at rare intervals was one to be met by chance, isolated, with sidelong look, lowering his head before the red trousers.
This stirred in him the whole of that unknown terror, the hereditary ill, the long ancestry of drunkenness, no longer tolerating a drop of alcohol without falling into homicidal mania.
In spite of the growing daylight, nothing stirred in the settlements; the colliers remained in silent rage beneath the military boot.
There was silence, and neither the landlord nor the two others stirred from their places.
But nothing stirred, and he bent down, felt the hands that were gradually becoming icy, and listened to the heart, which had stopped beneath the overcoat.
And he had broken his tether, neighing with fear, when he perceived that the other no longer stirred.
She was crushed, and never stirred again.
But what particularly stirred the country were the great yellow posters which the directors had stuck up in profusion on the walls.
You gave yourself a terrible wound, and it has melted away in that dog's labour, while mine, which has not stirred from my drawer, still keeps me comfortably doing nothing, as it will keep my grandchildren's children."
For five minutes nothing stirred.
The engineer would not let him go down any more, and he would not go away from the pit, from which he was driven off; he could not even sit down and wait near his mother, he was so deeply stirred by the need to act, which drove him constantly on.
He stirred no more, except at intervals, to spit.
There was deep silence; the mine, being gorged with water, no longer stirred.
Nothing more stirred, the sound of the picks had ceased.
Two days passed; she had not stirred; he touched her with his mechanical gesture, reassured to find her so quiet.
It just rides with the waves, but otherwise it hasn't stirred."
The vessel hadn't stirred, because I obviously would have felt its hull vibrating under the influence of the propeller.
As for our craft, it no longer stirred, staying as motionless as if these coral polyps had already walled it in with their indestructible cement.
Stirred up by our footsteps, the mica-rich dust on this beach flew into the air like a cloud of sparks.
And even when our hearts could beat with yours, moved by some of your griefs or stirred by your deeds of courage and genius, we've had to stifle even the slightest token of that sympathy that arises at the sight of something fine and good, whether it comes from friend or enemy.
The comparisons of betrothed, husband, celestial lover, and eternal marriage, that recur in sermons, stirred within her soul depths of unexpected sweetness.
The many lives that stirred amid this tumult were, however, divided into parts, classed as distinct pictures.
She sprang towards him, she pressed against him, she stirred carefully the dying embers, sought all around her anything that could revive it; and the most distant reminiscences, like the most immediate occasions, what she experienced as well as what she imagined, her voluptuous desires that were unsatisfied, her projects of happiness that crackled in the wind like dead boughs, her sterile virtue, her lost hopes, the domestic tete-a-tete—she gathered it all up, took everything, and made it all serve as fuel for her melancholy.
Clumps of trees here and there stood out like black rocks, and the tall lines of the poplars that rose above the mist were like a beach stirred by the wind.
The sky was now blue, the leaves no longer stirred.
Emma listened to him with bowed head, and stirred the bits of wood on the ground with the tip of her foot.
The weather was fine, the people were hot, perspiration trickled amid the curls, and handkerchiefs taken from pockets were mopping red foreheads; and now and then a warm wind that blew from the river gently stirred the border of the tick awnings hanging from the doors of the public-houses.
The doctor seemed delighted to see him, but he never stirred out that evening, nor all the next day.
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