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Likewise, December 2013 (the unlucky “Devil’s Dozen” according to superstitious Russians) was full of omens.
When he saw Catherine at the head, with her gentle boyish air, a superstitious idea caused him to risk another question.
And at the bottom of their fidelity there was a superstitious terror, a fear lest the million of the denier might suddenly melt away if they were to realize it and to put it in a drawer.
An idea of economy had come to her, a sort of superstitious fear, the certainty that that ribbon would bring her bad luck if she were to buy it now.
Even if it were possible to improve any detail of it - which is anyway no more than superstitious nonsense - the best that they could achieve, although doing themselves incalculable harm in the process, is that they will have attracted the special attention of the officials for any case that comes up in the future, and the officials are always ready to seek revenge.
Can you?""Nor can I," said the businessman, "nothing at all.""These people are so superstitious!" exclaimed K."Isn't that what I just told you?" asked the businessman.
The superstitious beliefs were established a long time ago and they spread all by themselves."
On the other, she was talkative, selfish, superstitious, and inquisitive.
When Caesar reached the graveyard, he uncovered his grizzled head with superstitious awe, and threw around him many a fearful glance, in momentary expectation of seeing something superhuman.
"Well then," said Sancho, "God and the most holy Trinity of Gaeta give me help!""Since the memorable adventure of the fulling mills," said Don Quixote, "I have never seen Sancho in such a fright as now; were I as superstitious as others his abject fear would cause me some little trepidation of spirit.
The old lady submitted to this piece of practical politeness with all the dignity which befitted so important and serious a solemnity, but the younger ladies, not being so thoroughly imbued with a superstitious veneration for the custom, or imagining that the value of a salute is very much enhanced if it cost a little trouble to obtain it, screamed and struggled, and ran into corners, and threatened and remonstrated, and did everything but leave the room, until some of the less adventurous gentlemen were on the point of desisting, when they all at once found it useless to resist any longer, and submitted to be kissed with a good grace.
She was struck, no doubt, with a superstitious idea; she conceived that heaven denied its aid, and she remained in the attitude in which she had fallen, her head drooping and her hands clasped.
The superstitious Italians would have set us down for fire-devils vomited out of hell; so we presented ourselves in the humble guise of shipwrecked mariners.
Sir Henry has, I suppose, no superstitious fears in the matter?"
He had heard also that Sir Charles was superstitious and had taken this grim legend very seriously.
He took the sacred volume, and was about to open it, when Pencroft stopped him, saying,--"Captain, I am superstitious.
"But consider," said the Palmer, "my character, my dress, my vow.""I know you Christians," replied the Jew, "and that the noblest of you will take the staff and sandal in superstitious penance, and walk afoot to visit the graves of dead men.""Blaspheme not, Jew," said the Pilgrim, sternly.
Perhaps Oswald (for the Saxons were very superstitious) might have adopted some such hypothesis, to account for Ivanhoe's disappearance, had he not suddenly cast his eye upon a person attired like a squire, in whom he recognised the features of his fellow-servant Gurth.
As the cavalcade left the court of the monastery, an incident happened somewhat alarming to the Saxons, who, of all people of Europe, were most addicted to a superstitious observance of omens, and to whose opinions can be traced most of those notions upon such subjects, still to be found among our popular antiquities.
For the Normans being a mixed race, and better informed according to the information of the times, had lost most of the superstitious prejudices which their ancestors had brought from Scandinavia, and piqued themselves upon thinking freely on such topics.
He had not the usual resource of bigots in that superstitious period, most of whom were wont to atone for the crimes they were guilty of by liberality to the church, stupefying by this means their terrors by the idea of atonement and forgiveness; and although the refuge which success thus purchased, was no more like to the peace of mind which follows on sincere repentance, than the turbid stupefaction procured by opium resembles healthy and natural slumbers, it was still a state of mind preferable to the agonies of awakened remorse.
Accursed be he of Goodalricke, who baited this trap for me! and doubly accursed Albert de Malvoisin, who withheld me from the resolution I had formed, of hurling back the glove at the face of the superstitious and superannuated fool, who listened to a charge so absurd, and against a creature so high in mind, and so lovely in form as thou art!""And what now avails rant or flattery?"
At any rate I am not superstitious . .
He took advantage of their fright, and while they were fixing a superstitious glance on the club which had fallen fromheaven, and while they were putting out the eyes of the stone saints on the front with a discharge of arrows and buckshot, Quasimodo was silently piling up plaster, stones, and rough blocks of stone, even the sacks of tools belonging to the masons, on the edge of the balustrade from which the beam had already been hurled.
The love of the mob might be considered rather of ill omen; and the sceptical Petronius was superstitious also.
Vinicius, who was superstitious also, looked at Petronius with sudden and great fear.
Vinicius gazed at Peter with a certain superstitious awe, hardly inferior to that terror which he felt during the fever dream.
But the superstitious Vestinius was roused from meditation at once, and asked in a mysterious voice,--"Have ye noticed that when dying they see something?
This sceptical exquisite had become in a certain sense superstitious.
Fears like those of the superstitious Vestinius seized thousands of people.
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