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In his wounded vanity he experienced real despair.
She feared she had wounded them, and added, with the stolid and just air of a practical woman:"Oh!
As his nature became more refined he found himself wounded by the promiscuity of the settlement.
The wounded child was placed on the stretcher while the mattress and the dead body were put into the van.
As she helped to carry up the wounded boy and to give the doctor what he needed, she cursed fate, and asked where she was to find money to feed invalids.
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.
The lack of harmony had only increased, aggravated by one of those curious misunderstandings of the flesh which freeze the most ardent; he adored his wife, she had the sensuality of a greedy blonde, and already they slept apart, ill at ease and wounded.
She was not wounded, however; it was quite natural; and she proposed that he should rebuff her before people, so as to seem to have broken with her.
So strong an impulse pushed them on that they had no feeling of their terrible fatigue, or of their bruised and wounded feet.
His desolate household, his whole wounded life, choked him at the throat like a death agony.
Since her adventure with Jeanlin, the pregnant rabbit, no doubt wounded, had only brought forth dead young ones; and to avoid feeding a useless mouth they had resigned themselves that very day to serve her up with potatoes.
Several of his men were wounded; and he felt that they were losing self-control in that unbridled instinct of self-defence when obedience to leaders ceases.
Bébert and Lydie had fallen one on top of the other at the first three shots, the little girl struck in the face, the boy wounded beneath the left shoulder.
The wounded were howling, the dead were growing cold. in twisted postures, muddy with the liquid mud of the thaw, here and there forming puddles among the inky patches of coal which reappeared beneath the tattered snow.
For four days all the opposition journals had been indignant, displaying atrocious narratives on their front pages: twenty-five wounded, fourteen dead, including three women and two children.
The beast was wounded in the belly; we should see if it was still alive at night.
He was wounded in the elbow, but had had the courage to go back on his knees, take their lamps, and search them to steal their bread-and-butter.
Not only was he sick, he was wounded.
I undid the linen bandages, while the wounded man gazed with great staring eyes and let me proceed without making a single complaint.
I took the wounded man's pulse.
I took a last look at the wounded man, then I replied:"This man will be dead in two hours."
Harpoons used for hunting whales are usually attached to a very long rope that pays out quickly when the wounded animal drags it with him.
"No," I said, "the animal's wounded, there's its blood; but your weapon didn't stick in its body."
No sooner had I voiced this regret than I felt it must have wounded Captain Nemo.
Now I ask you, after it had been wounded west of America, how could this animal be killed in the east, unless it had cleared the equator and doubled Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope?""I agree with our friend Ned," Conseil said, "and I'm waiting to hear how master will reply to him."
And on another: "Jean-Antoine-Henry-Guy d'Andervilliers de la Vaubyessard, Admiral of France and Chevalier of the Order of St. Michael, wounded at the battle of the Hougue-Saint-Vaast on the 29th of May, 1692; died at Vaubyessard on the 23rd of January 1693."
She recalled all her instincts of luxury, all the privations of her soul, the sordidness of marriage, of the household, her dream sinking into the mire like wounded swallows; all that she had longed for, all that she had denied herself, all that she might have had!
This searching after faith, she thought, was only one merit the more, and in the pride of her devoutness Emma compared herself to those grand ladies of long ago whose glory she, had dreamed of over a portrait of La Valliere, and who, trailing with so much majesty the lace-trimmed trains of their long gowns, retired into solitudes to shed at the feet of Christ all the tears of hearts that life had wounded.
She suffered only in her love, and felt her soul passing from her in this memory; as wounded men, dying, feel their life ebb from their bleeding wounds.
Though cruelly wounded, it was with an air of the simplest devotion that Madame de Renal put to Julien the questions necessary to enable her to execute his commission properly.
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