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Anything seemed better than this silence, with the ever-present feeling that the creature might be lurking in every bush I passed.
They were always dressed in white, which was very well for the young, slight figures, but was less happy for a stout middle-aged lady.
Although he was probably stronger than I, as he was heavier and older, my suppleness enabled me to get the better of him in a wrestle; and I got him under me, when the master, attracted by the shouts of the boys, made his appearance.
This world would be a paradise then, and one older and wiser in the learning of the schools, but not wiser or better in the heart's affections, than that little girl, might well wish to be a little bird, to fly around among the branches, the green leaves, and the blossoms on the trees.
One inspection satisfied Dr. Trendon that all was well with him.
I felt no fear, only intense anger at my folly in not having looked better to my priming.
Or maybe you are hot and thirsty, and there is a well at the side of the house.
I may explain my feeling better by saying that it was more a sensation of abhorrence; such as one might expect to feel, if brought in contact with something superhumanly foul; something unholybelonging to some hitherto undreamt of state of existence.
" "Mary, you must go home to Scotland and rest," said Mammy Anderson, "then you will get well from the fever.
Faith, Seignior, now I look better on you, I do not like your Phisnomy so well as your Intellects; you discovering some circumstantial Symptoms that ever denote a villanous Inconstancy.
He condemned the absurd practice which prevailed, for the master or mistress of the house to lavish entreaties on their guests to eat that which they might be better without; and insisted, at the same time, that the guests ought not to consult their own tastes exclusively.
I hope you will trust my judgment a little better after this.
"I knows we allers tinks of a home as a place where dere is good times, an' dere don't seem much good times goin' for some of us in dis worl', but dere ain't no call fer us ter spec' ter be better off dan our Lord, an ef we'se feedin' on de Lord Jesus all de time we won't min' ef de worl's bread is scarce; de soul ain't dependin' on dem tings fer nourishmen' an' de Lord Jesus makes de hard bed easy an' de coarse food taste good.
The water was only up to my middle, but before I could clamber back he had shipped his oars, and was well into the centre of the stream.
Believe me, if not for such ideas, her mother could afford something better as succotash for us for supper.
"I'm sure such a person is of no use to the world, and if he doesn't like himself he's better out of it.
What was there to know any better about?
A soldier from the barracksyou know this is part of a United States Military Reservationfound gold while digging a well near the beach, and an old miner took out $1,200 worth in twenty days.
I say final triumph, for the removal of young Noaks and Hogson from the rival school caused a great change for the better among the ranks of Horace House.
Goneril and Regan drive their white-haired father out into the storm; but even in King Lear, where the forces of evil seem to run riot, let us note the result: "Throughout that stupendous Third Act the good are seen growing better through suffering, and the bad worse through success.
For two days lay we besieged whereby our food and drink began to fail (for the well within the tower is well-nigh dried up)
The troops had the liveliest welcome in passing through villages, though the people are not as a rule demonstrative; and one could point to no better evidence of the exemplary behaviour of our soldiers than the groups of women sitting and gossiping round the wells during the process of drawing water, just as they did in Biblical days, heedless of the passing troops whom they regarded as their protectors.
After I have got my oil wells under way, I should like to engage you as superintendent.
If only Ivor had arrived a quarter of an hour earlier, at the time appointed, I should have hurried him away before this, so that I might write to Raoul; but now I could not think what to do for the bestwhat to do, that things might not be made far worse instead of better between Raoul and me.
They pour water from the well over the roots of the tree.