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Even Bismarck looked less preoccupied, as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
For one blessed hour or year we have been lifted to the thoughts of God and have entered into the great original Design.
And in the midst of all the wild commotion his father sat, unmoved and silent, his agonized face lifted in an attitude of supplication, his lifeless hands lying heavily upon the now worthless papers, since for him there would be no to-morrow!
It may be hard physical work to break stones for a road-way, but the task itself is a simple onethe lifting of the arm and dropping it again with sufficient force to split a rock apart.
But there was power in the creature, in the strange lift of his voice, in his grim jowl, and in the fire of his sombre eyes.
Diggory, whose wits never seemed to desert him at a critical moment, recognized it at once as belonging to the man who supplied the school, and springing forward he beckoned to the driver to stop, crying, "I say, give us a lift into Ronleigh, and we'll pay you a shilling.
Throughout the whole of these encroachments on the ancient usages in which the rights of the people resided, he appeared to be lifted above all personal or tyrannical views.
When this was finished, the car was lifted on the pile, all over which oil of sweet basil was poured, and then a light was applied.
An emotion which, now that King was here, was lifted out of her and blown away like a whiff of smoke before the mountain winds.
* Miss Bennett had come up in the lift with a heap of cardboard boxes, and the azalea.
His voice had coarsened and taken on a raw edge, but every gesture was flung from the socket, and from where they had forced themselves into the tight circle Gertie Slayback, her mouth fallen open and her head still back, could see the sinews of him ripple under khaki and the diaphragm lift for voice.
" I was conscious of few hopes, but some of the oppression under which I laboured lifted at those words.
"Ramblin' Kid, oh, Ramblin' Kid," she murmured, while the long lashes lifted over brown pools tenderness, "a manmy mandoes not need to be or to know all of those things, any of those things, before a girl like me" He crushed her to him and stopped the words on her lips.
A horse in a field below lifts up its head and neighs.
Like some savage beast attacked by the hunters, he found every hand lifted against him, for they all agreed to have a share in the sacrifice and a taste of his blood.
So, old Nannie blessed them, and theirs,past, present, and future, thoroughly and completely, with a fine comprehensiveness that only a genuinely accomplished old witch might hope to attain to, and, following them to the door, paused there with one shrivelled, claw-like hand up-lifted towards the sky: "At the full o' the moon, tall sir!"
So the fog has lifted without a storm?" "Yes, sir, but left an ugly sea.
Now for days you get no hint of the neighboring ranges until the snows begin to lighten and some shouldering peak lifts through a rent.
She saw the deep flush upon his cheek, and the cloudiness of his eye, and for the first time upon that bridal night she felt a shiver of fear as the veil was suddenly lifted before her unwilling eye; and half reluctantly she said to herself, "Suppose after all my cousin Belle was right.
After a moment his eyes fell, or rather, lifted under the look.
Thus plain'd the maid; and now her eyes Slow-lifting from the tide, Their liquid orbs with sweet surprise A youth beheld in extacies, Mute standing by her side.
And there, standing erect in the shadow, her face lifted like a pale little moon, stood Ivra.
" "That will probably lift within an hour.
Toward the middle of the afternoon the main flood cloud lifted along its western border revealing a beautiful section of the Sacramento Valley some twenty or thirty miles away, brilliantly sun-lighted and glistering with rain-sheets as if paved with silver.
A storming party was repulsed, and Admiral Hope, who was dangerously wounded, begged our American commodore to give him a lift by towing up a flotilla of barges filled with a reserve force.