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I was quite puzzled, but Hatzfeldt, who was a great friend of Liszt's and knew all his peculiarities, when consulted by Madame A. as to what she could do to induce Liszt to play, had answered: "Begin by putting the piano in the furthest, darkest corner of the room, and put all sorts of heavy things on it.
"But," she said, "you are not to fear or be cast down, because he goes likewise by these ways, and there is not a corner in all this land
neartheir nurses sitting in a sunny corner with their work.
Dark days there aredamp, chilly, misty, wet, and unpleasant days in autumn; days that make one relish a corner by an old-fashioned fire.
i, 17] Claudius was delighted to find literary men up there, and began to hope there might be some corner for his own historical works.
It is said that Izaak Walton waved a hand obscurely toward the stream where he had made a catch, but could not be cornered to a nice direction, lest his pool be overrun.
The Corner at night was like a scene at a circus.
Unfortunately, there was no corner on the top landing where I could stand hidden, so I was forced to draw back into the room.
Then turning a corner near a picturesque farmhouse, he smilingly observed, "This is our church.
Just round the corner from Heatley Street, we stopped at the open door of a very little cottage.
" "Well, if it is, he's got a sense of humor," said Mrs. Gilligan, rising from her knees where she had been peering into the corner behind the piano.
"I feel," said Laura, as they were turning the corner into her own street, "as if I ought to pay for that horrid old statue, Billie."
Edith was sitting in a becoming corner under a shaded light from which she could watch the door, when Vincy came up to talk to her.
In the corners against the walls were piles of sheep-skins that had a strong and rather unpleasant smell: the thatch above was covered with dusty cobwebs, hanging like old rags, and the clay floor was littered with bones, sticks, and other rubbish.
" Her voice shook with emotion, and drawing a huge white linen handkerchiefs from the folds of her gown, she cracked it by the corner like a whip, and blew her nose like a trumpet.
(Closing the door and sitting on a bench built into that corner between the big sliding door and the room where the CAPTAIN is.) BRADFORD: They're a cheerful pair of womenlivin' in this cheerful placea place that life savers had to turn over to the sandhuh!
He struts about the streets of The Corner as a great mine owner, and with the power of Lord Nick behind him, not one of the people of the gambling houses and dance halls dares cross him.
Beth flushed and turned aside her head; Myrtle shrank back in her corner out of sight; but Patsy glared fixedly at the speaker with an expression that was far from gracious.
I dragged myself into a corner after a time, from which some other wretch had been rolled out in the course of a quarrel; and as I found that silence was the only policy, I kept silent, with rage consuming my heart.
Carton stood next day in an obscure corner among the crowd when Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay, appeared again before the judges.
But, when set at large, the helpless youth could not turn a corner without meeting some bald-headed reporter who raised the cry of "Stop thief!"
" Thus speaking, the Reverend OCTAVIUS SIMPSON hurried nervously from the Boreal temple; not fairly satisfied that he had escaped a Policy until he found himself safely emerged on Broadway and turning a corner toward Nassau Street.
" When Willie put the corner over her face, she said, "He did that too!"
Next day he lurked round the corner below the doctor's house until he saw him drive away; then he went up and rang the bell.
But on this first occasion my attention is soon distracted from them, for as we turn a corner beyond the hut settlement, which I am told is that of a machine-gun detachment, there is an exclamation from D. Tanks!