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...ion—for her husband had planted them; but they had not taken kindly to the soil, and fifty years had produced but a starveling growth. Beyond lay an e... ...er was deficient.’ ‘It is not a plant that seems to thrive on the Peruvian soil.’ ‘No; and I am dreadfully afraid for Tom Madison. There were hints ab... ...m realize that the decisive moment was near, when he should tread the same soil with Mary, and yet, as he stood silently watching those glorious heigh...

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...opound some social axiom which could have been gathered only in the bitter soil of experience. All these things came back to him as he sat beside her ... ...he slip-covers off her drawing-room chairs. Her long resi- dence on Gallic soil had not mitigated her hostility toward the creed and customs of the ra...

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...s, for the rainfall runs off at once on all sides into the sea, it has not soil enough— it is said—to grow a single blade of grass, as if it were blig... ...a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble on its passage. Viola coughed, turning his face away from the ... ...the rivulet beyond the bushes to a hollow place which the caving in of the soil had made below the roots of a large tree. Its big smooth trunk leaned ... ... aside in the road, sunk deep, like an English country lane, into the soft soil of the Campo. They cowered; their eyes glistened very big for a second...

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..., town, campo(there was not a single brick, stone, or grain of sand of its soil I had not placed in position with my own hands); all the history, geog...

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...e year as it was, the sun already possessed great force, and the dry rocky soil of Castile reflected his beams, so that, long before noon, it seemed t...

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...he sense, which, always present, had suddenly grown acute, that the social soil on this big, vague continent was somehow not adapted for growing those...

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... town, campo (there was not a single brick, stone, or grain of sand of its soil I had not placed in position with my own hands); all the history, geog...

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... follow my own 127 Yo n g e profession; but when he seemed to take to the soil so kindly, I thought, after all, he might make the happier squire for ...

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... come West in the early eighties, just in time to bury the father in alien soil. Condy was an only child. He was educated at the State University, had...

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... him to serve his country abroad, while his reluctance to leave his native soil pressed him rather to remain in the beloved island, and collect purses...

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...olent methods. “I’ll be level with you yet,” ran like a plough through the soil of his thoughts. Then there was this infernal detective. Bechamel had ...

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...ked much shabbier than the troops of a year ago, their coats were worn and soiled, and their feathers almost stumps, but they made up for their povert... ...splendid dark eyes. Patience could have told that this bright array was so soiled, rumpled, ragged, and begrimed, that she hardly liked to touch it, b... ...sounds they heard. Patience had made an attempt to get her to exchange her soiled finery for a sober dress of Rusha’s; but “What shall I do, Stead?” s... ...s armour bright, a contrast to Steadfast’s smock, stained with weather and soil, and his rough leathern leggings, although Patience did her best, and ... ...een allowed to carry out, because of their prompt surrender, hung limp and soiled, almost like tokens of a defeat, and if any one of those specta- tor...

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... space from which the stars swung flaming, held by invisible ties, and the soil be- neath his feet was a dust of atoms and the little beginnings of li...

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...e a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck. Mary too... ...ound traced upon the rocky wall with candle smoke, and near at hand a grease soiled bit of ribbon. Mrs. Thatcher recognized the ribbon and cried over ...

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...n- ing. 67 Beatrix VII LES TOUCHES A FEW HUNDRED YARDS From Guerande the soil of Brit- tany comes to an end; the salt-marshes and the sandy dunes be... ...h toilets of Beatrix and Camille. She was painfully aware of the stockings soiled among the rocks as she had jumped from the boat, of shabby leather s... ... une carotte!” The saying has become so popular that it must be allowed to soil this page. Besides, if we penetrate within the 13th arrondissement, we...

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...ed with sheep; a fine flight of rooks in the sky; and every sign of a kind soil and climate; and yet the barrack in the midst of it went sore against ...

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... complacency, “will set my Lady up! There is no finer air and no healthier soil in the world!” Thomas may have his own personal opinions on this sub ... ... sees a ragged figure coming very cautiously along, crouching close to the soiled walls—which the wretchedest figure might as well avoid—and furtively... ... in him, homely rags are on him; native ignorance, the growth of En glish soil and climate, sinks his immortal nature lower than the beasts that peri...

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... calumny, the pretext seized by malevolence to belittle all that is great, soil all that is immaculate and dishonor whatever is sacred. Let us, rather... ...hem. Outside of their ideal, nothing of good can exist; all is stained and soiled. This idea causes the rejec- tion of many a diamond with a flaw by g... ...nts; she peddled fish. If Parisians know these creations peculiar to their soil, foreigners have no suspicion of their existence; and Mere Cardinal—te... ...ged by emotion, “that in bringing a serpent to this place I should soon be soiled by his venom. Poor fool! do you not see that you have made yourself ... ...zet, were both agreed that the purchase was a good one. They had found the soil of the best quality, the buildings in perfect repair, the cattle looke...

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...s ogress and child-queller was in a steep by-street at Brighton; where the soil was more than usually chalky , flinty , and sterile, and the houses we... ...end, and bring him quickly for- ward, I daresay. I daresay. Quite a virgin soil, I believe you said, Mr Dombey?’ ‘Except some ordinary preparation at ... ... speaks well of, but I may wish that the family was set to work in a stony soil to make new roads, and that Miss Blimber went in front, and had the pi...

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...o brush them away, but they leap up impishly and fall back on the plush. A soiled man and woman munch sandwiches and throw the crusts on the floor. A ... ...ed, simpering woman with iron-gray hair drawn so tight that it resembled a soiled handkerchief covering her head. But she was unexpectedly cheerful, a... ...aks a vulgar, common, incorrect German of life and death and birth and the soil. I read the French and German of sentimental lovers and Christmas garl... ...siastic young writ- ers, the drama was not half so native and close to the soil as motor cars and telephones. She discovered that simple arts require ... ...ta and Idaho. Luke and Mrs. Dawson picked up ten thousand acres of prairie soil, in the magic por- table form of a small check book, and went to Pasad...