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...lve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting -- 2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations -- 3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience -- 4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing -- 5. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and...

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... it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Last year, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent al...

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...d a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have... ...n. It looked as though the two of them, the German and his assailant, were trying to overpower each other by the magnetic force of their stares, and w... ... pranks of such a lad were not to be taken too seriously (he was obviously trying to justify him), but that he had made up his mind to punish his son,... ...h me for leading an idle life, that is, not being in the ser- vice and not trying to get a post. The old man bitterly and irritably reproached me, fro... ... besought me with tears to think of my future. She kept questioning me and trying to discover what I was doing, and when I refused to tell my secret e... ... along the embankment. I could not 37 Dostoevsky speak. I was reflecting, trying to think, and utterly at a loss. My heart was in a whirl. It seemed ... ...ssed in filthy rags; she had broken shoes on her little bare feet. She was trying to cover her shivering little body with a sort of aged semblance of ... ...his lodgings. Y ou tell her, I’ll be back directly.” And he hurried away , trying not even to look at us, as though ashamed of having brought us toget... ... his wrath, and for a minute controlled himself. We were all silent. I was trying not to look at him. But the good moment did not last long. At all co...

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...d what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the...

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...life. Daniel him- self felt this, and as usual stood just inside the door, trying to speak softly and not move, for fear of breaking something in the ... ...was no time for attending to trifles, went past Natasha and Petya who were trying to tell him something. He had a look at all the details of the hunt,... ...‘dog,’ but a harrier,” thought Nicholas, and looked sternly at his sister, trying to make her feel the distance that ought to separate them at that mo... ... off after the hounds. The count, like a punished schoolboy, looked round, trying by a smile to win Simon’s sympathy for his plight. But Simon was no ... ...oping round by the bushes while the field was coming up on both sides, all trying to head the wolf, but it vanished into the wood before they could do... ...the fall of a body and saw Daniel lying on the wolf’s back among the dogs, trying to seize her by the ears. It was evident to the dogs, the hunters, a... ...Uncle,” Rostov, and Ilagin kept stealthily glancing at one another’s dogs, trying not to be observed by their companions and searching uneasily for ri... ...atasha saw and felt the agitation the two elderly men and her brother were trying to conceal, and was herself excited by it. The huntsman stood halfwa... ...s ’twas growing dark last night—the tune of which she had all the way been trying to get and had at last caught. “Got it?” said Nicholas. “What were y...

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... that life up long ago,” said he, wondering at the change in her face, and trying to divine its mean- ing. “And I confess,” he said, with a smile, sho... ...n’t a thought I wouldn’t lay bare to you?” “Yes, yes,” she said, evidently trying to suppress her jealous thoughts. “But if only you knew how wretched... ...ince? Why did you find it so tiresome?” “Oh, it was intolerable!” he said, trying to pick up the thread of his interrupted thought. “He does not im- p... ...rs dropped from her eyes; he bent down over her hand and began kissing it, trying to hide his emotion, which, he knew, had no sort of grounds, though ... ...in Levin. Young Shtcherbatsky, who had not been introduced to Karenin, was trying to look as though he were not in the least conscious of it. Karenin ... ...proaching the table. “You have killed a bear, I’ve been told!” said Kitty, trying assiduously to catch with her fork a perverse mushroom that would sl... ...loth cut in slits by penknives. “I don’t, I don’t believe it!” Dolly said, trying to catch his glance that avoided her. “One cannot disbelieve facts, ... ...g the significance of the Russian com- mune. But he talked to them, simply trying to reconcile and soften their differences. He was not in the least i... ...asing to dispute his position. He tried to say this. she knitted her brow, trying to understand. But di- rectly he began to illustrate his meaning, sh...

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...cold in the winter, the heat from the open fireplace in summer was equally trying. The early years of my life, which were spent in the little cabin, w... ...In wearing them one presented and exceedingly awkward appearance. The most trying ordeal that I was forced to endure as a slave boy, however, was the ... ... of my race showed for an education. As I have stated, it was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the a... ...t to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not—of trying to im- press my schoolmates and others with the fact that she was ab... ...at one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I al- most reached the c... ...f. I do not believe he ever had a selfish thought. He was just as happy in trying to assist some other institution in the South as he was when working... ... but by watching the other boys I learned my lesson in this, and have been trying to follow it ever since and to teach it to others. I was among the y... ...ft for their homes, and this served to depress my spirits even more. After trying for several days in and near the town of Hampton, I finally secured ... ... debt of honour, and that I could hardly bring myself to the point of even trying to enter school again till it was paid. I economized in every way th...

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...he could swal low his legs first; then bringing up Ivan Matveitch, who kept trying to jump out and clutching at the sides of the tank, sucked him dow... ... entrance money . “Such a reactionary desire, madam,” said the stranger, trying to avoid falling over in our direction and to remain standing outs... ...person who, covering his mouth with a pillow, shouts from an adjoining room, trying to mimic the sound of two peasants calling to one nother in a de ... ...se there … you must admit it would be a bad example. We should have everyone trying to go the same way to get a salary for nothing.” “Do your best... ... Semyonitch the seven roubles?” “Yes, out of my own pocket,” I answered, trying to emphasise that fact in my voice. “We will settle it,” he an... ...t I must frankly confess, I never could en dure Ivan Matveitch. I have been trying all my life, from a child up, to escape from his tutelage and have...

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...bring it round tomorrow. I shall maybe do some mowing myself too,” he said trying not to be embar- rassed. The bailiff smiled and said: “Yes, sir.” At... ...p with a smile and giving him the scythe. Levin took the scythe, and began trying it. As they finished their rows, the mowers, hot and good-humored, ... ...grass became softer, and Levin, listening without answering, followed Tit, trying to do the best he could. They moved a hundred paces. Tit kept moving... ...is scythe, not stopping or showing signs of weariness. Levin followed him, trying not to get left behind, and he found it harder and harder: the momen... ...cut as Tit’s. But so soon as he recol- lected what he was doing, and began trying to do bet- ter, he was at once conscious of all the difficulty of hi... ...Aliosha, it is true, did not stand quite correctly; he kept turning round, trying to look at his little jacket from behind; but all the same he was wo... ... and jam. “Mercy! Your new white frock; Tanya! Grisha!” said their mother, trying to save the frock, but with tears in her eyes, smiling a blissful, r... ...ell, what am I going to do? How am I to set about it?” he said to himself, trying to express to himself all the thoughts and feelings he had passed th... ...t the matter would never come to real danger, it would amount to my simply trying to gain a certain sham reputation by such a challenge. That would be...

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... mentative essay, it is clearly meant to be persuasive. What is the author trying to persuade us of? Besto of Four Every household has that one perso... ... things. Ski lifts are not made for three-foot tall rambunctious children. Trying to get twenty some children up a ski lift that is 20 to 30 feet abov... ...’s stories about how someone was starting a fight or how the students were trying to start problems. People always made it seem as if it were a prison... ...ve me a hug. I said yes, and in about two min- utes I had over fifty girls trying to hug me. There were so many girls that I fell on the floor and mor... ...wear brand names to be popular” phase comes during adolescence when we are trying to fit in with our peers. I attended a pub- lic high school where I ... ...e the models in the ads in order to be cool. It works. Teenagers today are trying so hard to fit in and be popular that they’ll pay anything to have t... ...ecial spicy individuality. Make sure you know exactly what the director is trying to tell you. You could talk to others who have al- ready been throug...

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...ll, though,” he went on, thinking as he mounted the stairs out of breath and trying to suppress that beating of his heart, which had the habit of beat... ...vered from his amazement. “Come, calm yourself!” he brought out at last, trying to make Mr. Golyadkin sit down in an armchair. “I have enemies... ...ed Mr. Golyadkin, also in a whisper, turning his mis erable eyes about him, trying helplessly to discover in the The Double – Dostoevsky 33 amazed ... ... might happen to any one,” whispered Mr. Golyadkin, moving a little away and trying to escape from the crowd surrounding him. They made way for hi... ...committed a breach of propriety; but as that was utterly impossible he began trying to creep away into a corner and to stand there. modestly, decorous... ...the backs of two chairs, taking complete possession of them in that way, and trying, as far as he could, to glance confidently at Olsufy Ivanovitch’s ... ...Golyadkin looked as though he wanted to hide from himself, as though he were trying to run away from himself! Yes! It was really so. One may say more:... ...n, were the thoughts in the mind of Mr. Golyadkin as, stretching in his bed, trying to rest his ex hausted limbs, he waited for Petrushka to come int... ...en taken off Mr. Golyadkin himself. “Sir,” our hero articulated at last, trying to speak almost in a whisper, and not looking at his companion, “w...

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... the Mason in a stern and tremulous voice. He paused and sighed, evidently trying to calm himself. “If He were not,” he said quietly, “you and I would... ..., the Gospel—it seemed to him that he had expected all this and even more. Trying to stimulate his emotions he looked around. “God, death, love, the b... ...lized that he could not stop halfway. He was aghast at his hesitation and, trying to arouse his former devotional feel- ing, prostrated himself before... ...een received into the Lodge, Pierre was sitting at home reading a book and trying to fathom the signifi- cance of the Square, one side of which symbol... ...” (he wanted to repeat a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that evening to get in) “I only wished to say that we are wrong ... ...doctor and expecting another for whom they had sent to town, they had been trying first one remedy and then another. Worn out by sleeplessness and anx... ...on your estates.” Pierre began describing what he had done on his estates, trying as far as possible to conceal his own part in the im- provements tha... ...roduce you to her. But of course you know her already,” he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with whom he now found nothing in com- mon. “... ... for myself and ruined my life. And only now when I am living, or at least trying” (Pierre’s modesty made him correct himself) “to live for others, on...

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...y what we mean. Students often fall into the trap of writing generally and trying to justify it by saying that this way my reader can imagine what th... ...ictures for us, give us the image that best lets us see what the writer is trying to say. Notice how Nick Gwozdziewycz does this: There are many obsta... ... ena Beach ena Beach ena Beach Bead Girl After a little while of my mom trying to get the bead out, she decided that she alone wouldn t be able to ... ...ueeze the bead out. wouldn t let me. I remember screaming and crying while trying to move my hands and feet around. I couldn t move at all and kept ri... ...es are metaphorical ref erences to the passage of time. Their authors are trying to suggest that time passed in a very slow fashion, and they are cli...

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... me. But you are so silent. You don’t tell me anything. I am, at any rate, trying to get you to see what sort of life it was I led with Florence and w... ... to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch with your hand that dancing reflection. And the task lasted... ...hings, when the poor girl was on her way to that fatal Brindisi and he was trying to persuade himself and me that he had 19 Ford Madox Ford never rea... ...aged by Florence she was in a state to say: “So awkward of me … I was just trying to put the comb straight in Mrs Maidan’s hair… .” Mrs Maidan, howeve... ...her, though he desperately needed her moral support, too… . But his really trying liabilities were mostly in the nature of gener- osities proper to hi... ...s redeeming drunkards who came before his magisterial bench; he was always trying to put prostitutes into respectable places—and he was a perfect mani... ...an almost threatening, hardness in her voice. It was almost as if she were trying to convey to Florence, through me, that she would seriously harm my ... ...you understand that, whilst she was Edward’s mistress, she was perpetually trying to reunite him to his wife? She would gabble on to Leonora about for... ...—”Did Florence commit suicide? I didn’t know.” I was just, you understand, trying to let her know that, if she were going to speak she would have to t...

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...am Richard’s mother. If I am against him who has any right to be for him? (Trying to conciliate him.) Won’t you sit down, Mr. Anderson? I should have ... ...se demonstrations can only gratify and encourage a man who is deliberately trying to provoke them, remains perfectly goodhumored.) All the same, Pasto... ...usiness—ha? ANDERSON (perfectly self-possessed). Come, my dear: he is only trying to frighten you. There is no danger. (He takes her out of the house.... ...d has been very good to you. He has forgiven you for insulting him, and is trying to save you. Can you not forgive him for being so much better than y... .... (The sergeant retires delicately and joins his men near the door.) He is trying to spare you the truth; but you had better know it. Are you listenin... ...hich Richard sat at the tea table.) ANDERSON (patting Essie’s shoulder and trying to comfort her). I hope not. I hope not. Perhaps if you’re very quie... ...sitting himself.) SWINDON (greatly annoyed). As you please, sir. I am only trying to do my duty under excessively trying circumstances. (He takes his ...

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...nature. “It must be some time, though: it can’t go on like this,” he said, trying to give himself courage. He squared his chest, took out a cigarette,... ... Hearing her husband’s steps, she stopped, look- ing towards the door, and trying assiduously to give her features a severe and contemptuous expressio... ...e and see you,” he said; and then, recollecting with what intention he was trying to see her, he was promptly overcome with confusion and blushed. “I ... ... over as soon as we can, so as to be ready for our work, while here are we trying to drag out our meal as long as possible, and with that object eatin... ...e too serious for a drawing room, Vronsky made no rejoinder, but by way of trying to change the conversa- tion, he smiled brightly, and turned to the ... ...w, and how Vronsky looked with amiable perplexity at her father, as though trying and failing to understand how and why anyone could be hostilely disp... ...ly language. “What have you done? I’ll tell you what. First of all, you’re trying to catch an eligible gentleman, and all Moscow will be talking of it... ...ving him a lesson in French reading. As the boy read, he kept twisting and trying to tear off a button that was nearly off his jacket. His mother had ... ... glad I am to see you!” “I am glad, too,” said Dolly, faintly smiling, and trying by the expression of Anna’s face to find out whether she knew. “Most...

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...nd mistakes which were ridiculed; but un- consciously he began immediately trying to recall every detail of his meeting and conversation with the auth... ...e. Whether he were acting rightly or wrongly he did not know, and far from trying to prove that he was, nowa- days he avoided all thought or talk abou... ... “Why am I standing here, making them work? What are they all so busy for, trying to show their zeal before me? What is that old Matrona, my old frien... ...rning over on his stomach and beginning to tie a noose of blades of grass, trying not to break them. “And not merely pride of intellect, but dulness o... ...f man?” he thought. “And don’t all the theories of philosophy do the same, trying by the path of thought, which is strange and not natural to man, to ... ...y as the peasant Fyodor, and not a bit more clearly than he, and is simply trying by a dubious intellectual path to come back to what every- one knows... ...r to the river. “But can I believe in all the church teaches?” he thought, trying himself, and thinking of everything that could destroy his present p... ... to the hut to get bread, cucumbers, and fresh honey, to regale them with. Trying to make his movements as deliberate as pos- sible, and listening to ...

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...te life of the house continued. Latterly that private life had become very trying for Princess Mary. There in Moscow she was deprived of her greatest ... ..., as if afraid she might find some means of conso- lation, he returned and trying to appear calm added: “And don’t imagine I have said this in a momen... ...shed in patches, ran in to meet the visitors, treading heavily, and vainly trying to appear cordial and at ease. From the first glance Princess Mary d... ...d I let him?” She sat for a long time hiding her flushed face in her hands trying to realize what had happened to her, but was unable either to unders... ...ng shut herself into a room adjoining the draw- ing room, occupied herself trying on the new dresses. Just as she had put on a bodice without sleeves ... ...picked it up and read it. As she read she glanced at the sleeping Natasha, trying to find in her face an explanation of what she was reading, but did ... ... party Natasha again met Anatole, and Sonya noticed that she spoke to him, trying not to be overheard, and that all through dinner she was more agitat... ...ing sense. Come here, come here!” Anatole returned and looked at Dolokhov, trying to give him his attention and evidently submitting to him involuntar... ...emained at the wicket gate and was struggling with the yard porter who was trying to lock it. With a last desperate effort Dolokhov pushed the por- te...

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...Kitty looked at him in society, as one sometimes looks at those one loves, trying to see him as if he were a stranger, so as to catch the impression h... ...n maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wr... ... listened and talked, and all the while he was thinking of her inner life, trying to divine her feel- ings. And though he had judged her so severely h... ...hat this awkwardness is all over,” he said, and remembering that by way of trying not to see him, he had immediately gone to call on Anna, he blushed.... ...et us talk of it. What about the race? You haven’t told me!” she inquired, trying to conceal her triumph at the victory, which had anyway been on her ... ...callousness with which the doctor’s footman had cleaned his lamp chimneys. Trying not to get flurried or out of temper, Levin men- tioned the names of... ... as it were, teasing him with his composure. “There’s no hurry. Well now?” Trying to be as accurate as possible Levin began to tell him every unnecess... ...r swollen face, sometimes bewil- dered and in agony, sometimes smiling and trying to reassure him. He saw the old princess too, flushed and overwrough... ...n Arkadyevitch believed most positively that the committee in which he was trying to get an appointment was a new, genuine, and honest public body, bu...

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...ss came into the drawing room with the family doctor. The prince withdrew, trying not to show how ridiculous he thought the whole performance. The pri... ... quite well, mamma. But if you want to go abroad, let’s go!” she said, And trying to appear inter- ested in the proposed tour, she began talking of th... ... the red flash and the sound of a blow, and fluttering its wings as though trying to keep up in the air, the bird halted, stopped still and instant, a... ...e trees?” “How count the trees?” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, laughing, still trying to draw his friend out of his ill- temper. “Count the sands of the s... ...ere at my time. Konstantin Dmitrievitch, my respects”; he turned to Levin, trying to seize his hand too. But Levin, scowl- ing, made as though he did ... ..., please,” said the young officer, stealing a timid glance at Vronsky, and trying to pull his scarcely visible mustache. Seeing that Vronsky did not t... ...t the races. He answered her questions, and, seeing that she was agitated, trying to calm her, he began tell- ing her in the simplest tone the details... ... was doing him. “But, Anna,” said Vronsky, in a soft and persuasive voice, trying to soothe her, “we absolutely must, any- way, tell him, and then be ... ...om side to side. Cord quickened his step, following him. The excited mare, trying to shake off her rider first on one side and then the other, pulled ...

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...” Prince V asili wished to obtain this post for his son, but oth- ers were trying through the Dowager Empress Marya Fedorovna to secure it for the bar... ...syn and he has refused. Be the kindhearted man you always were,” she said, trying to smile though tears were in her eyes. “Papa, we shall be late,” sa... ...certainly throw itself into the arms of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the royalist emigrant. “That is doubtful,” said Pri... ...ee others were romping with a young bear, one pulling him by the chain and trying to set him at the others. 35 Tolstoy “I bet a hundred on Stevens!” ... ... youngest boy, had all settled down in the drawing room and were obviously trying to restrain within the bounds of decorum the excitement and mirth th... ...ifficult to get rid of Anna Mikhaylovna. “W ould not such a meeting be too trying for him, dear Anna Mikhaylovna?” said he. “Let us wait until evening... ...ough the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern. “How do you do, cousin?” said Pierre. “Y ou... ...s, it seems he is ill. People are always disturbing him,” answered Pierre, trying to remember who this young man was. Boris felt that Pierre did not r... ...t not changing his tone or attitude, “it must seem to you that everyone is trying to get something out of the rich man?” “So it does,” thought Pierre....