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...surprising in a man of such antecedents. Gaspar Ruiz heard of it. His rage flamed up, and the woman ever by his side knew how to feed it with perfidio... ...d to the attack, stamping their feet and shouting in ca- dence. A sheet of flame ran three times along the face of the fort without checking their ste... ...“He leaped aside, lowering his port-fire, and a 59 Joseph Conrad burst of flame darted out of the muzzle of the gun lashed on the man’s back. “Then G... ... the fort nearly drowned his voice. The palisade was wreathed in smoke and flame. “‘Exert your force forward against the recoil, mi amo,’ said the old... ... is seemly and comfortable in my hospitality. Somehow, señores, though the flame of love has been kindled early in my breast, I have never married. An... ...nacing immobil- ity whence, with muffled detonations, hundreds of dark red flames darted through the air thick with falling snow. In a very few moment... ... 178 A Set of Six an old wooden barn burned with a clear and an im- mense flame. The sacred battalion of skeletons, muffled in rags, crowded greedily... ...ou.” Colonel Feraud nodded, and pushed on towards the warmth of the fierce flames. Colonel D’Hubert was more deliberate, but not the less bent on gett...

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...ok left, look right, the hills are bright, The dales are light between, Because ?tis fifty years to-night That God has saved the Queen. Now, when the flame they watch not towers About the soil they trod, Lads, we?ll remember friends of ours Who shared the work with God. To skies that knit their heartstrings right, To fields that bred them brave, The saviours come not home ...

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...where the lonely Giudecca lies in front, covering mud and marsh and lagune-flames of later afternoon, and you have sight of the high mainland hills wh... ...of the night, like a spark crackling serpentine along dry leaves to sudden flame. A thought of Nevil and a regret had done it. 56 Beauchamp’s Career ... ... for the sun; and the sun struck them. One by one they came out in crimson flame, till the vivid host appeared to have stepped forward. The shadows on... ...ould be.’ ‘Why not? I would have it: I would do my utmost to have it,’ she flamed out. ‘Your utmost?’ Her father was glancing at her foregone mimicry ... ...ions with the Mar- quise de Rouaillout, and notwithstanding the demoniacal flame-halo of the Radical encircling him. The allusion to Beauchamp occurre... ...with satirical pen and pencil comments and sketches; and they consigned to flames the vast sheet of animated verses relating to the French Mar- quees.... ...morning, never varied. They might have varied with such a division as when flame lights up the night or a tempest shades the day, had Renee chosen; sh... ...ead the mon- strous things for truths. Her purer virgin blood was, not in- flamed. She read the signification of the card sadly as she did clearly. Wh... ...im to the state in which passionate thoughts pass into speech like heat to flame. Rosamund strained her men- tal sight to gain a conception of his pro...

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... fe’; and singularly resembling that victim at the first sharp bite of the flames she will, be when she hears the version of her story. 29 George Mer... ...azing Marriage ‘Here— “A panting look”: you write again: “A look of beaten flame: a look of one who has run and at last beholds!” But that is a living... ..., snare him in her surrender. It must have been the veri- table passion: a flame kept alive by vestal ministrants in the yewwood of the forest of Old ... ... quick at a word, a scent, a sound, to conjure up scenes, in spirit and in flame. Historically, they still march with Cadwallader, with Llewellyn, wit... ...nt she may have picked up between then and now—when we can stretch fist in flame to defy it on the oath of her being a woman of honour. The earl aligh... ...ing desperately to repair. If her Chillon went, Carinthia would go—sure as flame is drawn to air. The exceeding splendour in the character of a young ... ...ods richer far than the philosopher’s milk of Mother Nature’s bosom. There flamed the burning signal of release from his torments; there his absolving... ...f city Old England’s fell word of the scarlet shimmer above the nether pit-flames, Rome. An ancient horror in the blood of the population, conceiving ... ...nt, and so save both from a terrific dragon’s jaw, scarlet as the infernal flames; described as fascinating— ‘The classes with the crests, And the lin...

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... probably the largest sinBlc contJqration durinl the CDtire revolution. Observers ~ported seeina flames shooting hundreds of feet into the air from po...

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...bled no more about it, until abruptly it burst into a little yellow-tipped flame. “Bert!” she screamed. But Bert had put on the brakes with such sudde... ...e stood for some fatal seconds watching the petrol drip and catch, and the flame, which was now beginning to smell of enamel as well as oil, spread an... ...e roadway, and laid it down and looked about for a supply of wet sand. The flames received this as a helpful attention, and made the most of it. They ... ...e road-grit. Other cyclists arrived, dismounted and stood about, and their flame-lit faces expressed satisfac- tion, interest, curiositv. “Wet sand,” ... ...nd.” One joined him. They threw hard-earned handfuls of road-grit upon the flames, which accepted them with enthusiasm. Grubb arrived, riding hard. He... ...ed burning rags of cushion aside, whipped off his jacket and sprang at the flames with a shout. He stamped into the ruin until flames ran up his boots... ...o have done this before,” panted Grubb. There was a moment of triumph. The flames vanished. Every one who could contrive to do so touched the edge of ... ...e the opening of a mouth. It 34 The War in the Air laughed with a gust of flames. They were reflected redly in the observant goggles of the gentleman... ...he other end, and there was his cocoa smoking, without the use of match or flame of any sort. It was an old invention, but new to Bert. There was also...

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...melted into the darkness. She went indoors, worn with a strange and bitter flame. He crossed the fields towards the little town, which once more fumed... ...ingers and wanted to see some reward. A match spluttered. One naked little flame sprang alight among the dark foliage. The candle burned tremulously, ... ...and penetrated the recesses of the secret trees. Several little tongues of flame clipped sensitive and ruddy on the naked air, sending a faint glow ov... ... party round the tree became absorbed and excited as more ruddy tongues of flame pricked upward from the dark tree. Pale candles became evident, the a... ... it in his hand, a handful of it. 187 D. H. Lawrence Exactly like a great flame rose the simultaneous yell of the crowd as the boy jerked and got the... ...rolonged yell, touched with a snarl of triumph, and searing like a puff of flame, sounded as the boy remained for one moment with the flag in his hand... ...ng cold water over his phoe- nix newly risen from the ashes of its nest in flames. He realised that she did not want him to play. She did not want him... ...ng dark and the town was lighting up. He felt curiously blazed, as if some flame or electric power had gone through him and withered his vital tissue.... ...ugh him and withered his vital tissue. Blazed, as if some kind of electric flame had run over him and withered him. His brain felt withered, his mind ...

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...tructed, hears a loud but by no means deafening report, and sees a spit of flame near the breech. Regulations of a severe character prevent his watchi... ...ng. Oh, it was beautiful! Then it began to turn over and come down, and it flames and pieces began to break away. And then down it came, leaving flami... ...ort is happening. This war has written its warning in letters of blood and flame and anguish in the skies of mankind for two years and a half. When I ...

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...is feet full of fine sable, and his claws like fine gold; and an hid- eous flame of fire flew out of his mouth, like as the land and water had flamed ...

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... ever will, I think. But she has a temper, and sometimes it catches fire and flames up, and is likely to burn whatever is near it; but it is soon over...

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...Is kindling coales that fires all my brest, 740 And burnes me vp with flames, that tears would quench. 741 To weepe, is to make lesse the de...

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... stop me from making a total ass out of myself. The rich chicory smoke that flame-blasted the back of my throat helped, too. It cleared my foggy b...

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...head. The creature let out a monstrous roar and belched a colorful display of flames and Aislinn gasped. A fire-breathing dragon! A rare and wondr...

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...e floor like an earthquake. I braced for impact, knowing that even if we somehow miraculously survived the crash, we’d still have to live through the flames and/or toxic fumes that were sure to envelop us. I shook away the thought of blackened, tangled, twisting metal burning in the charred trees. My head jerked forward as Nick clipped a row of towering trees on a thirty-f...

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...hem. Within twenty-four hours, every cocoa, marijuana, and poppy field was in flames. Every drug dealer, Cartel, or installation that refined or pro...

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...d her sugar-plum box. She wore a dress of black velvet, and a petticoat of flame-colored brocade. She had as many rings on her fingers as the old woma... ...m that looked to the court, and Harry saw that the smoke came from a great flame of papers which were burning in a brazier when he entered the Chaplai... ...formerly, the light of love kindled in his eyes. He was with her, but that flame was out: and that once welcome beacon no more shone there. What were ... ...s of her voice. Who does not know of eyes, lighted by love once, where the flame shines no more?—of lamps extinguished, once properly trimmed and tend... ...’s benefactor and patron. In houses where, in place of that sacred, inmost flame of love, there is discord at the cen- tre, the whole household become... ...I to be dallying about this passion, and singeing my wings in this foolish flame. Wings!—why not say crutches? ‘There is but eight years’ difference b... ...l now, and from now till death is past and beyond it, he prays that sacred flame may ever burn. CHAPTER IX I MAKE THE CAMPAIGN OF 1704. MR. ESMOND ROD... ...ottage table, where his plans were laid, or an enemy’s bat- tery, vomiting flame and death, and strewing corpses round about him;—he was always cold, ... ... embel- lished him, that he was an Amadis and deserved a Gloriana; and oh! flames and darts! what was his joy at hearing that his mistress was come in...

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...ics Recorders Ages Hence When I Heard at the Close of the Day Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me? Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone Not Heat Flames up and Consumes Trickle Drops City of Orgies Behold This Swarthy Face I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing To a Stranger This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful I Hear It Was Charged against Me The Prairie-Grass D...

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...nvisible about a quarter past twelve. He compared it to a colossal puff of flame suddenly and violently squirted out of the planet, “as flaming gases ... ...ke on Mars are a mil- lion to one,” he said. Hundreds of observers saw the flame that night and the 8 The War of the Worlds night after about midnigh... ... after about midnight, and again the night after; and so for ten nights, a flame each night. Why the shots ceased af- ter the tenth no one on earth ha... ...was seen early in the morning, rushing over Winchester eastward, a line of flame high in the atmosphere. Hundreds must have seen it, and taken it for ... ...drove up, one after the other, straight into the still air. This smoke (or flame, perhaps, would be the better word for it) was so bright that the dee... ...a beam of light seemed to flicker out from it. Forthwith flashes of actual flame, a bright glare leaping from one to another, sprang from the scattere... ... It was as if some invisible jet impinged upon them and flashed into white flame. It was as if each man were suddenly and momentarily turned to fire. ... ...st into fire, and every dry furze bush became with one dull thud a mass of flames. And far away towards Knaphill I saw the flashes of trees and hedges... ...wed still, and the houses towards Woking station were sending up spires of flame into the stillness of the evening air. Nothing was changed save for t...

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...and. Dorilis then gave it me, 29 Goethe With a scoffing jest; Sudden into flame it broke, By my fingers press’d. And it singed my eyes and face, Set ... ...he blaze Mounted ever higher. Vain I sought to put it out; Ever burned the flame; Stead of dying, soon the Fox Livelier still became. 1770. The Heathr... ...s disturb, in wanton play, The silence of the bridal bed. His torch’s pale flame serves to gild The scene with mystic sacred glow; The room with incen... ...he churches ruined lie, The houses burn on high, The roofs they smoke, the flames out fly, Into the street then hie! No safety there they meet! The so... ...e bright. ’T was there we gather’d first A nosegay as we roved; There into flame first burst The passion that we proved. 117 Goethe Yet when, with pl... ...thered in His name, Whose power hath brought us here; He kindled first our flame, He bids it burn more clear. Then gladly glow to-night, And let our h... ...Of the wealth thy storehouse reckons, Hast thou nought to give thy child!” Flames of rapture now dart through him, And he longs for nothing more, Whil... ...hus I wrote, and with my blood. Ring round ring I forthwith drew, Wondrous flames collected there, Herbs and bones in order fair, Till the charm had... ..., And met the sorrowing maiden; None knew of the fact,—and yet with Love’s flame, Those two had their hearts full laden. And, oh the bliss Of a mo...