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Mr. Weller uttered these words in so serious a manner, that the pretty housemaid cast down her eyes and looked very grave.
'I wos a-thinkin', Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, eyeing his son, with great earnestness, over his pipe, as if to assure him that however extraordinary and incredible the declaration might appear, it was nevertheless calmly and deliberately uttered.
There now, Mr. Pickwick, if you can make it convenient to reduce your eyes to their usual size again, and to let me hear what you think we ought to do, I shall feel rather obliged to you!'The testy manner in which the hearty old gentleman uttered this last sentence was not wholly unwarranted; for Mr. Pickwick's face had settled down into an expression of blank amazement and perplexity, quite curious to behold.
At the sight of this phenomenon, the fat boy uttered an interjection, the ladies a scream, and the gentleman an oath, almost simultaneously.
As the little old gentleman uttered this command, he slipped five shillings into the waiter's hand, and looked steadily at him.
"The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol?"Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know.
That was the word the man uttered, and of which his son only caught the last two syllables.
'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it was used.'"The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of my speech.
Tarvin uttered an abandoned howl of joy, executed a war-dance on the white floor of the mosque, snatched the astounded operator from behind his table, and whirled him away into a mad waltz.
The cooing, musical singsong in which he uttered this consecrated phrase was worth going a long way to hear.
"Will they never have done with that name?" uttered an incomparably sweet voice out of the darkness.
Nevertheless, when the name of the king was now and then uttered unthinkingly amid all these cardinal jests, a sort of gag seemed to close for a moment on all these jeering mouths.
"I always said that d’Artagnan had the longest head of the four," said Athos, who, having uttered his opinion, to which d’Artagnan replied with a bow, immediately resumed his accustomed silence.
Bonacieux uttered a little cry and fled.
Bonacieux thought she recognized the sound of that voice; she reopened her eyes, cast a quick glance upon the man who had terrified her so, and at once perceiving it was d’Artagnan, she uttered a cry of joy, "Oh, it is you, it is you!
Buckingham saw this apparition in the glass; he uttered a cry.
You understand!"Athos shrugged his shoulders, and followed his guards silently, while M. Bonacieux uttered lamentations enough to break the heart of a tiger.
He wished to confess to the officer, and upon his refusal, uttered such pitiable cries that the officer told him that if he continued to deafen him thus, he should put a gag in his mouth.
This was more than poor Bonacieux could endure, depressed as he was by the successive emotions which he had experienced; he uttered a feeble groan which night have been taken for the last sigh of a dying man, and fainted.
The queen uttered a piercing cry at finding herself surprised--for in her trouble she did not at first recognize the young woman who had been given to her by Laporte.
But he was soon aroused from these reflections by Lubin, who uttered loud cries and screamed for help with all his might.
Over a species of altar, and beneath a canopy of blue velvet, surmounted by white and red plumes, was a full-length portrait of Anne of Austria, so perfect in its resemblance that d’Artagnan uttered a cry of surprise on beholding it.
All at once he uttered a terrible cry.
At the sight of his friend, Porthos uttered a loud cry of joy; and Mousqueton, rising respectfully, yielded his place to him, and went to give an eye to the two stewpans, of which he appeared to have the particular inspection.
I wager that I uttered a thousand extravagances."
The procurator’s wife uttered a groan.
Madame uttered fresh sighs.
As quick as thought, he tore open the letter, in spite of the cry which Kitty uttered on seeing what he was going to do, or rather, what he was doing.
"There is nothing but a wainscot between my chamber and Milady’s; every word that is uttered in one can be heard in the other."
Aramis uttered a cry of joy at the sight of the seal, kissed the superscription with an almost religious respect, and opened the epistle, which contained what follows:"My Friend, it is the will of fate that we should be still for some time separated; but the delightful days of youth are not lost beyond return.
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