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I looked up, quickly, and as I did so I saw the lights sink into a dull, ruddy tint; so that the room glowed with a strange, heavy, crimson twilight that gave the shadows behind the chairs and tables a double depth of blackness; and wherever the light struck, it was as though luminous blood had been splashed over the room.
Firstif you were so sunk in ignorance as not to know the roadyou inquired of everybody for the chewing gum factory, to be known by its smell of peppermint.
Another vast space went by, and the whole enormous flame had sunk to a deep, copper color.
He had a gentleness of manners, that was peculiar to himself; and, instead of possessing such imperious severity of spirit as might produce the calamity I allude to, he was really endued with such native tenderness of heart as must have sunk under it, had he not found in the unexampled services that he rendered to the world, an antidote to the poison of domestic infelicity.
The poor woman sank on the nearest chair, as some one who has been nursing a patient that suddenly turns out to have small-pox or leprosy.
Mr. P. sank with him!
It was useless to shoot them in the water: they sank at once.
Yet to the World with so bewitching Arts, Your dazling Beauty you around display, And triumph in the Spoils of broken Hearts, That sink beneath your feet, and croud your Way.
" His eyes shone so wildly, his face was so swept with strong feeling, that my heart sank within me.
Tunbridge Wells has sunk from fashion.
The greater portion of this immense region, including Owen's Valley, Death Valley, and the Sink of the Mohave, the area of which is nearly one fifth that of the entire State, is usually regarded as a desert, not because of any lack in the soil, but for want of rain, and rivers available for irrigation.
The star was sinking behind the enormous mass of the dead sun.
I took my usual bath, as the sun was sinking below the mountain; and, finding the Hermit still soundly sleeping, I threw myself on a seat, under the shelter of some bamboos, fell asleep, and did not awake until late the next morning.
He grasped the rope, and that instant his boat sank like a rock!
It was a little later, that my attention was drawn to the fact, that the great star of green flame, was slowly sinking out of the North, toward the East.
The two peoples were thus again brought to the brink of war, but eventually the difference was sunk for the time, and the Chinese chroniclers have represented that the satisfactory turn in the question was due to Meha seeing the error of his ways.
There were others which caused them to wish to sink through the hard floor of the stand in humiliation.
The Burmese were then on the eve of a rupture with the East India Company, a fact which we had not before known; and mistaking us for English, they supposed, or affected to suppose, that we belonged to a fleet which was about to invade them, and that our ship had been sunk before their eyes, by the tutelar divinity of the country.
As I had anticipated it was thick and heavy enough to sink without being weighted.
" To not one of the trio did it occur to let go of the life buoys and sink as a means of ending misery.
My luck was with me again, for the enemy was made useless and at once began sinking by the head.
Dr. Trendon went on deck, his head sunk between his shoulders.
and he sank among the restful pillows.
"Seems to me," said she, drawing out her foot, which had sunk above the ankle in coal,"seems to me I have as many feet as a caterpillar.
But as the sun was sinking towards the western horizon, a cloud, 'as it were a man’s hand,' was seen to rise as if to meet the glowing orb; and, ere he sank, his rays were obscured by a heavy bank of clouds.