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...His hand had slipped from the knob and he stood staring down at the exotic spirals of the Persian rug beneath his feet. 25 Edith Wharton “I’d have to...

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...mbers into a pale brilliance; and, under its touch, the slen- der, upright spirals of smoke that rose from every glowing heap swayed, wavered, and edd... ...oke of which, thin and blue, drifted slanting in a succession of rings and spirals across the door- way, whose empty blackness seemed to him impen- et... ..., in stretching bars, in shapeless patches, in sinuous wisps and tormented spirals. Over the courtyard and the house floated a round, sombre, and ling...

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...wise to the turbine-chests, and thence the obedient gas whirls through the spirals of blades with a force that would whip the teeth out of a power saw... ..., the road was seared, and blown, and pitted with unequal pressure layers, spirals, vortices, and readjustments for at least an hour. I pitched badly ...

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...n chest. The bay was waking up. The smokes of morning fires stood in faint spirals higher than the heads of palms; people moved between the houses; a ...

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...g, when with a glance she brought him down, as a falcon mak- ing his dizzy spirals in the air around his prey causes it to fall stupefied to earth, be...

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...ke. And then he spoke again, punctuating his words by varied and beautiful spirals. “So far,” he said, “I have only trifled with knavery.” As Lewisham...

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..., tongues of vermilion flame that writhed and danced. I fancied It must be spirals of vapour that had caught the light and made this crest of fiery to...

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...coffee, nut- meg, clove, and pepper plantations, while the steam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, in the midst of which 42 Around the W...

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...e tower, an external 43 Jules Verne staircase wound around the spire, the spirals circling up into the sky. “Let us get to the top,” said my uncle. “...

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...h to heaven, and bespangled with living gold-dust, whirling round in giddy spirals, and all the time fleeting so fast that it was diminishing every mo...

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...ve to face it out, sire,’ he said. For some moments they watched the steep spirals of the descending messengers, and then they began a hasty consul- t...

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...ber equinox it had emerged from the northern horizon, rising by lengthened spirals up to the 21st of December. At this period, the summer solstice of ...

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...y. A cold grey sky threatened rain, and a high wind drove the dust in wild spirals up and down the streets. Lily walked up Fifth Avenue toward the Par...

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...e hands of angels, for the light of heaven seems to ripple in their silken spirals swaying to the breeze. Fanny O’Brien was one of those sylphs, —stro...

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... him; when the space between us had narrowed to forty feet, I sent the snaky spirals of the rope a cleaving through the air, then darted aside and fac...

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... in the world was any use. The other threads of smoke went on vanishing in spirals before the attentive Jorgenson. “What are you doing?” asked Mrs. Tr...

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...illing experience, for we should go down in a flying gal- lop and seem to be spinning around the rings of a whirlwind, like a drop of whiskey descendi...

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...s lopping gracefully on each side of their cheeks in geometrically perfect spirals, a small pink and white ear nestling under each horn. Before and be...

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...lass. Imagine the devouring eagerness with which I pored over those mazy red spirals, with that document by my side which bore the right hand thumb an...

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...om the lodge, trying to horses, in spite of the road being cut out in long spirals. On he ran, leaving the road to Markham, straight up 277 Yo n g e ...

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...ach and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee, While thou, Time’s spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still extricating, fusing, Equa...