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If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
And, to add zest to the situation, I informed Singleton of what was going forward. [9]
It gives a zest to pleasure to have even an indefinite object, and though the prospect of meeting Irene again was not definite, it was nevertheless alluring. [4]
The graveyard in Zermatt occupies only about one-eighth of an acre. [5]
He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
Most of these youths who had been plunged into misery by such rascally abuse of office and the shameful way in which a king naturally anything but malignant, was misled and deceived, were either dead and gone, or had been released from prison as mature men. [10]
Each of these youths is my keeper, my spy. [10]
Neither were the youths idle; they busied themselves in making a costly coffin for the vanished corpse of the god, accompanying their work with dances and the sound of castanets. [10]
And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
Remember also the youthful Ephraim, the grandson of Nun, Thy faithful servant. [10]
Now, in his youth, Caracalla went through his courses of philosophy. [10]
Those verses were youth, and youth was gone, with all its flushed and spirited dalliance and reckless expenditure of feeling. [11]
She saw a youth with a sword hurrying towards the Cohue Royale from a tangled mass of combatants. [11]
At last, the youth succeeded, by means of the cleverest trick I ever saw, in clasping his opponent firmly. [10]
The splendour of youth is its madness, and the splendour of that madness is its unconquerable belief. [11]
In his hottest youth he could not have made such passionate motions of affection. [11]
At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
Himself in early youth had felt the austerity of a Cavalier father turned a Puritan on a sudden, and he wished no such experience for his daughter. [11]
If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
The faults of youth are never shed, no, nor the merits, and creeping time convinces ever the more of our impotence, and of the irresistibility of our bias. [6]
You can settle yourselves in a hundred different ways in New York, that is one merit of the place. [8]
You must know, yourself, that Hanuman could not have carried those mountains to Ceylon except by the strength of the gods. [5]
Try to compose yourself, and believe my assurances that I like you and that you will find in me a zealous protector and a discreet friend if you will but tell me candidly and fully what are the motives of your conduct. [10]
Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
Instead of burying yourself in a convent, you, whom so many desire, would do better to beckon to one of your admirers and bestow on him the happiness of which the other was not worthy. [10]
General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
Learn to feel yourself a member of the body to which your destiny has bound you for the present, whether you like it or not. [10]
The land is yours, and to-morrow my attorney shall give you a deed of it. [9]
If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
This light within your youthful hearts has beamed, Ripening the germs of all things good and fair; I also fostered them, and joyous dreamed Of future progress to repay our care. [10]
Depart, and when your work is finished, take as much as you like out of the treasury. [10]
But I have your word for it, too, and the returning elasticity of spirits which is manifested in your letters. [7]
Now go to your window, if it is a still day, open it, and let the half-sheet of paper drop on the outside. [6]
If this be your will, and the will of the great Cumner, speak. [11]
I thought of your wife. [4]
I am not your wife in any real sense of the word, I cannot hold you, I cannot even interest you. [9]
And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history? [6]
You have raised your voice against it, and I respect and honour and thank you for it, the more because you have done it without resorting to sensation, and apparently with no thought of yourself. [9]
But dread of your uncle drove me on, and I had debts to frighten me. [9]
Now it is your turn again: In what city of my home did you meet the signorina? [10]
You have had your trials, you have them still; but every gift of man is yours, and every opportunity. [11]
Well, that is your training; it is the training of everybody; but as for me, I thank that incident for giving me a better light, and I have never forgotten it. [5]
This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. [5]
The influence of your telegram the other day is still upon me, and has impressed me with the idea that there are many parts of the problem which influence you that are not known to me. [7]
I rebel against your system of forced publicity. [6]
But we know your strength; we know that the small remnant of our nation, which war and pestilence have spared, cannot resist your vast and well-armed hosts. [10]
If you lay your story out there, nobody will suspect anything of the sort. [4]
Yet I watched your steps as the hunter follows the trail of the game. [10]
Ye temple-servants, seize your staves, and spread in every part of the city the news of the miracle which the Divinity has vouchsafed to us. [10]
The quota of your State would be ______. [7]
I can read your soul through your eyes, and it seems to me that things have gone wrong with you since the keeper of your stud arrived here. [10]
You live by your smallness, another makes his living with his hard hands, I earn my scanty bread by the thoughts of my brain. [10]
We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
He knows that your salvation is now secure, but of course you would like to know it yourself. [5]
I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
Do not break your ranks on the plea of removing the wounded! [2]
Your relations to your professional brethren may be a source of lifelong happiness and growth in knowledge and character, or they may make you wretched and end by leaving you isolated from those who should be your friends and counsellors. [3]
The particulars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. [7]
The practicability of your plan was not, in fact, brought to a test. [7]
I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge of the writer. [14]
I know of your people. [11]
He comes from your part of the country, and you will be concerned, of course. [11]
In this matter your own sense of military propriety must be your guide, and the regulations of the service your rule of conduct. [7]
Come back to your own people; be a true daughter of the Ry of Rys; live with your Romany chal. [11]
You shall form your own opinion of her. [6]
But it is your own happiness I am thinking of. [4]
Why, nobody but your own family, of course. [6]
He is of your own county, of your own village, is your neighbour, a man of whom all England should be proud. [11]
Your estimate of your own ability is not the question, it is what the patient thinks of it. [3]
Will you perform your old office of escort, and join a party, which we can make up here, to go there to-morrow? [11]
You have forfeited your office of teacher. [10]
I shall await your most gracious permission here in hospital, that I may not have to play the part of a secretary rather than commander in the army. [2]
Let that be your model; and remember, on peril of your reputation as a prophet, not to put a stop before or after the nunquam. [6]
Again, according to your mind, a man who steals holy vessels must needs be an infidel; therefore a tailor in Chaudiere, suspected of being an infidel, stole the holy chalices. [11]
You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
Fresh proof of your maxim, mother: if you want to be well served you must buy rascals! [10]
The images of your manifold gods are everywhere to be seen; they crowd on our gaze, and yet who knows not that their real is not their apparent significance? [10]
Your generous heart, your love of truth, and your beautiful reverence for the gods, your courage and heroism, in short, every thing that I love and honor in you, I shall give to the hero of my tale. [10]
The rewards of your long and patient industry are on their way, and their arrival safe in port, presently, seems assured. [5]
We offer you your lives; for the sake of your families, do not reject the gift. [5]
The soles of your little shoes probably only sing, but they, too, are not silent. [10]
In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
The balance of your letter, I say, pleases me exceedingly. [5]
The receipt of your letter, and the reading of some of the criticisms this morning, have rendered me nervous for the whole day. [4]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
You yourself, in your law practice, are always insisting upon the sacredness of contract as the very basis of our civilization. [9]
I saved up your last story to read when the numbers should be complete, but before that time arrived some other admirer of yours carried off the papers. [5]
Where was all your kindness of heart? [13]
I suppose, however, your husband told you of these things, so that you were not surprised. [11]
For a year your husband has sent nothing of importance. [10]
No, I suppose your husband did not speak much of his old friends. [11]
Remember me to your husband and tell him, his life may be valuable; but ours are not wisps of straw. [10]
The idea of your house going to the wanton expense of a flower garden! [5]
Hang fast to your honours by the skin of your teeth, my lord. [11]
Now, disperse to your homes, or every man of you will be arrested and tried by court-martial. [11]
If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
It would do your heart good to hear his invocations to that deeply injured shade, and his denunciations of the ignorant and vulgar protestants who have defamed him. [6]
Ulrich yonder, at your head, can bear his nickname of Lowing with honor. [10]
Just think of your having had our head translator for a model. [8]
The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. [5]
The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
Bear witness to your friend that no evil word ever passed the lips of either of them. [10]
Try to have your force, or the advance of it, at Front Royal as soon. [7]
And, spite of your flashing eyes, I will tell you you are more than a woman, you are a prophetess. [10]
They grate on your finer sensibilities, and all that sort of thing. [9]
Caesar has made your father, and your neighbor Skopas, and every free man in the country a Roman citizen; but it is a pity that, while he gave each man his patent of citizenship, he should have filched the money out of his purse. [10]
I know from your father himself how kind his intentions were when he withdrew his assistance from Hermon, and when he had escaped to the island of Rhodes, left him to make his own way during the first period of apprenticeship through which he passed there. [10]
An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view. [5]
The worst of your enemies always will be your guest to-night. [11]
The days of your education, as pupils of trained instructors, are over. [3]
But now open your ears and follow my advice: Do not reveal the state of your heart until you have left the castle so far behind that you are out of sight of the Bohemian princess, or your ship of happiness may be wrecked within sight of port. [10]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in, year out? [5]
What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in year out? [5]
True, it was your duty; for ever since Isabella became my wife you have taken advantage of my poverty and impaired my right to command her. [10]
No word of your discourse escaped me. [10]
The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
The memory of your dear father, instead of an agony, will yet be a sad, sweet feeling in your heart, of a purer and holier sort than you have known before. [7]
The face of your daughter drew him on. [11]
One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
Your arguments and your conversations have shown you to be intimately conversant with every detail of this national quarrel. [5]
I commend to your consideration the suggestions of the Secretary of the Navy in regard to the policy of fostering and training seamen and also the education of officers and engineers for the naval service. [7]
I transmit for your consideration copies of the letters and report. [7]
I transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of War, accompanied by one from the Provost-Marshal General to him, both relating to the subject above mentioned. [7]
You have elected your committee of your free wills, and they have claims before you. [9]
Consider, then, whether your claim of conservatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. [7]
But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
Get out of your carriage and follow me. [10]
I disagree with your beliefs, but I do not think that your pursuit of them has not been sincere, and justified by your conscience. [9]
I have watched your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the mark. [10]
The work of your association is better and shows more wisdom than the Czar of Russia and all his people. [5]
I shall need your assent and the assent of about a dozen other authors. [5]
The success of your army and the cause of the country are the same, and, of course, I only desire the good of the cause. [7]
When you had your armor on, to-day, it gave one a sort of notion of it; but in these pretty silks and velvets, you are only a dainty page, not a league-striding war-colossus, moving in clouds and darkness and breathing smoke and thunder. [5]
I recognize in your arguments that which smacks of his tongue, despite what he says of your reading the public prints and of forming your own opinions. [9]
I only made your acquaintance after I had rescued you, and I opposed the mob, not for the sake of any particular man, but for that of law and order. [10]
They were not youngsters, either of them; but they had the spring of youth in them, and a deep basis of strength and force; and they knew the veld and the veld people. [11]
He is the youngest of us all, but a great future awaits him. [10]
A Numidian, the youngest of the legion, a beardless youth, had pinned the terrible conqueror of lions and men to the bed with his spear, and then, with the same weapon, had released at least a dozen of his fellow-sufferers from their pain. [10]
She was the youngest of five maiden sisters, and had arrived at the mature age of eighteen. [4]
He was a younger son of an impoverished earl. [9]
Iras and the younger pupils of Olympus are aiding her. [10]
Some of the younger officers who were there, laughed as they followed his retreating figure. [9]
We are both young; time is with us; and we will flourish palms in the face of Europe yet. [11]
Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
What did the young, joyous-hearted fellow who was wooing Eva know of such cares? [10]
But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]
She beheld herself, young, fresh-cheeked, with life beating high and all the impulses of youth panting to use, sitting at the head of the seigneury table. [11]
She was still young, but her slightly pockmarked countenance showed the wear and tear of sorrow of some kind. [11]
In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
What manner of young woman was this who fell off horses? [9]
A slender, lymphatic young woman is suckling two lusty twins, the intervals of suction being occupied on her part with palpitations, headaches, giddiness, throbbing in the head, and various nervous symptoms, her cheeks meantime getting bloodless, and her strength running away in company with her milk. [3]
The most conspicuous young woman in the group, in riding clothes, was seated on the railing, with the toe of one boot on the ground. [9]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
He was too young to die, but he had gold, and the captain of the citadel needed money. [11]
He was the young son of an Ohio nabob and was out there for recreation. [5]
Her cousins, the young sculptors, to please her, had gone out, too, but the sport did not last long; for when the market place of Tennis, just between the morning and noontide hours, was most crowded, the little boats which the hunters had used again touched the shore. [10]
Of course the young schoolmaster will come, and that poor tired-out looking Helen, if only to get out of sight of those horrid Peckham wretches. [6]
Somewhat thus a young rose-tree might feel, which for the first time receives the support of the prop to which it is tied by the careful gardener. [10]
As for his young pupil, she has often thought of being a teacher herself, so that she is of course very glad to acquire any accomplishment that may be useful to her in that capacity. [6]
The two pretty young Princesses Gorchakov met suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances. [2]
To-day, however, the young poetess was far from feeling any curiosity; instead of gazing at the shrubbery enlivened by birds, at the clear atmosphere or the sparkling sea, her eyes were fixed on a yellow roll of papyrus and she was impressing very dry details on her retentive memory. [10]
Gifted Hopkins, a young poet of distinction, whose fame will reach you by and by, if it has not come to your ears already. [6]
And that horrid young pirate, Ault, a patron of literature! [4]
She begged the young persons who had travelled to tell something of their experiences. [6]
I say two young people, for the one who counts most years seems to me to be really the younger of the pair. [6]
Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects. [6]
Some of these young people were extreme in their views. [6]
A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and fear appeared on her flushed face. [2]
To this the young mother would not consent, and the visitor departed with some chillingly-polite phrases, part English, part French, beyond the exact comprehension of Pierre, and leaving the father and mother and little Marguerite happy. [11]
I advise aimless young men to choose some profession without needless delay, and so get into a good strong current of human affairs, and find themselves bound up in interests with a compact body of their fellow-men. [6]
Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
What are the young men of the villages and the cities doing meantime? [4]
Of the other young men of the village Gifted Hopkins was perhaps the most fervent of her admirers, as he had repeatedly shown by effusions in verse, of which, under the thinnest of disguises, she was the object. [6]
At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
There are many young men like him in American society, of his age, opportunities, education and abilities, who have really been educated for nothing and have let themselves drift, in the hope that they will find somehow, and by some sudden turn of good luck, the golden road to fortune. [5]
Most of the young men knew a portion of it, and it was not customary to venture much beyond this known portion. [5]
He took the young Marylander to task for going to the Church of the Galileans, where he had several times accompanied Iris of late. [6]
He was a young man, very spare and very burned, with bright red hair and blue eyes that had a kind of laughter in them, and yet were sober. [9]
A very interesting young man, the Deacon said, much given to the reading of pious books. [6]
For such a young man, seemingly destined for the inner life of contemplation, to be a soldier seemed almost unnatural. [6]
A perfectly gentlemanly young man, of courteous address and mild utterance, but means at least as much as he says. [6]
While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
As for the young man, he felt as though wings were growing from his shoulders, and this fateful evening was one of the happiest of his life. [10]
Here is a young man writing to me from a Western college, and wants me to send him a list of the books which I think would be most useful to him. [6]
He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. [6]
Who was this young man of three and thirty to agitate him so? [9]
He is a young man of thirty-seven. [5]
He was a young man of one-and-twenty or thereabouts; well made, and certainly handsome, though the expression of his face was far from prepossessing, having in common with his manner and even his dress, a dissipated, insolent air which repelled one. [12]
He was a young man of mild and modest demeanor, chaplain to a Pennsylvania regiment, which he was going to rejoin. [6]
He is a young man of a sterling though undeveloped character, who has been hampered by an indulgent parent with a large fortune. [9]
And so the young man John, as we used to call him, took the pole of the miniature carriage, and pushed the small pugilist before him homewards, followed, in a somewhat leisurely way, by his pleasant-looking lady-companion, and I sent a sigh and a smile after him. [6]
None but a young man could take on the job, for it will require boldness, skill, and the recklessness of perfect courage. [11]
Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life. [4]

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