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The sensations caused by the novelty of my situation, at first checked those lively and varied trains of thought which the bird's-eye view of so many countries passing in review before us, was calculated to excite: yet, after I had become more familiar with it, I contemplated the beautiful exhibition with inexpressible delight.
Some of the faces of the regular habitues became most familiar to me.
There was something familiar in his figure and clothes, and Edith saw his face.
I ON A PIECE OF CHALK If a well were sunk at our feet in the midst of the city of Norwich, the diggers would very soon find themselves at work in that white substance almost too soft to be called rock, with which we are all familiar as "chalk.
Not strange, perhaps, for Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, whose very youth in New York, where he was an active politician, found him a frequent nightly familiar of the Tombs; but strange for the organist, who, although often grave in his manner, sepulchral in his tones, and occasionally addicted to coughin', must be curiously eccentric to wish to pass into concert that evening with the dead heads.
There is something familiar about the shape of it.
Bah!" If there was one quality of the mind with which Lord Nick was less familiar than with all others, it was humbleness of spirit.
Born and trained among a race who fear to forgive, Eivé was familiar by report at least with the merciless vengeance of cowards.
One would have hazarded that they were familiar from oft-repeated visits, and that among his plans to the contrary a desire to climb them insisted.
" "Then the gentleman would take off his right glove when he paid for his taxi-cab from St. Pancras," said Joe, who was familiar through the accounts in the newspapers with the main details of the Fewbanks mystery.
(He was growing more familiar at every word.)
Inflammation of the appendix is known as appendicitis,a name quite familiar on account of the many surgical operations performed of late years for its relief.
But in the south, especially on and near the coast, it has been familiar for some time; among the possibilities of the future it was not unknown even to the "Throne.
They had made a preliminary exploration of the grounds and buildings, revisiting the places which had become familiar during Institute week, and living over that crowded and epochal time.
This association of ideas was so familiar among the Mexicans that at the time of an eclipse of the sun they sought out the whitest men and women they could find, and sacrificed them, in order to pacify the sun.
No citizen's wife is demurer than she at the first greeting, nor draws in her mouth with a chaster simper; but you may be more familiar without distaste, and she does not startle at anything.
The first of these is the one become familiar under the name, law of inertia: Everything continues of itself in the state (of motion or rest) in which it is, and changes its state only as a result of some extraneous cause.
As I remember, the Egyptian Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noise was so familiar unto them.
Seldom this malady procures death, except (which is the greatest, most grievous calamity, and the misery of all miseries,) they make away themselves, which is a frequent thing, and familiar amongst them.
And with these the more familiar verses beginning: "Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea.
Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrowed grace, From him I'll learn to write; free and easy Copy his clear and easy style, clear And from the roughness of his file, familiar like Grow as himselfpolite.'
"'Why, surely, it's Mr. Cohen from No. 30!' "The mention of a name familiar down the length of the street had caused two or three other men to come forward and to look more closely into the horribly distorted mask of the murdered man.