Yet, the harder I stared the clearer appeared the amazing and monstrous apparition.

We Prussians, a rough, much-enduring tribe of Northerners, may be compacted of harder stuff; but we believe that love is on a higher level when the fullest devotion to an institution and an idea is inseparably linked with an entirely personal devotion to a human being; and at least we know how warm such a love can make a loyal heart.

Since his illness the jeweler's countenance had become harder and gloomier, while the wrinkles between his eyebrows had deepened greatly.

To them, a blow was but a blowand any horse or donkey could give a harder onea blow which under certain circumstances might make a man angry and demand immediate vengeance; but it had nothing to do with honor.

Her face seemed to grow grayer and harder in it.

The day passed away in tranquility; but at night the wind blew harder than ever, and the water became so rough, that they would hardly have been able to cross on their raft.

At a higher rate of speed they would be harder than globes of solid chilled steel, harder even than carbon.

At a higher rate of speed they would be harder than globes of solid chilled steel, harder even than carbon.

He stared harder, in the hope that his surroundings would give place to the usual ones, and, leaning a little bit more on his elbow, nearly rolled out of the bunk.

This greater breadth of temperament and training enabled Mary Mesurier to understand and make allowances for the narrower and harder nature of her husband, whom she learnt in time rather to pity for the bleakness of his early days, than to condemn for their effect upon his character.

Things went harder and harder with the Millers, until they had come to such a pass that when Reuben Miller went after the doctor, in the early dawn of the day on which little Draxy was born, he clasped his hands in sorrow and humiliation before he knocked at the doctor's door; and his only words were hard words for a man of sensitiveness and pride to speak: "Doctor Cobb, will you come over to my wife?

Things went harder and harder with the Millers, until they had come to such a pass that when Reuben Miller went after the doctor, in the early dawn of the day on which little Draxy was born, he clasped his hands in sorrow and humiliation before he knocked at the doctor's door; and his only words were hard words for a man of sensitiveness and pride to speak: "Doctor Cobb, will you come over to my wife?

If she sometimes felt a pang in seeing how much more Reuben talked with Draxy than with her, how much more he sought to be with Draxy than with her, she stifled it, and, reproaching herself for disloyalty to each, set herself to work for them harder than before.

The boat bumped harder against the bank, and at one time Buller thought they could turn over.

It hardly blows much harder in a typhoon.

Taquisara did not look again, but presently he went in, and there was less of unconcern in his handsome bronze face that day, and his dark eyes were harder and colder than they were wont to be.

"I suppose there isn't anybody else?" "Anybody?" "Wellnow you've got your divorce: anybody else it would come in handy for?" This was harder to bear than anything that had gone before: Undine could not have borne it if she had not had a purpose.

He found it harder still to conceive a love with which the glamour of the stage or the splendours of luxurious living had nothing to do.

Even Hellenic genius might here have been at fault, for it was a far harder task to give harmonious and complete expression to the tendencies of a new religion and the germs of new systems, than to frame into beauty the pagan clear-cut conceptions.

The hands who were looking on at that time, all thought he pushed me much harder than was necessary: and they expected that I would retaliate upon him the injury I had received.

A mistress of my acquaintance asked her servant boy, one day, what was the reason she could not get him to do his work whilst his master was away, and said to him, "Your master works a great deal harder than you do; he is at his office all day, and often has to study his law cases at night."

The blood flows, the long wounds cross each other, strips of skin are raised without softening either the hand of the executioner or the heart of the master, who cries 'sting him harder.'

In no other way, can I conceive, than, on the ground, that his lot is so peculiarly hardso much harder than that of persons under other forms of servitudethat he needs, whilst they do not, Apostolic counsel and advice to keep him just, and patient, and submissive.

He replied, "Certainly, the crops must be secured at any rate, and if they are suffering, the people must be pressed the harder.

The gnat-bites and mosquito buzzings are sometimes harder to bear than an operation with a surgeon's knife.