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- They drop a word or a phrase--they do not know how cruel it is--or give a look--they do not know how cold it is--and are gone without a second thought about it; but it sinks into the woman's heart and rankles there. [4]
- From her hand, which she lays upon his head, a mysterious influence steals through him; and he sinks into a dreamy tranquility. [5]
- It swims through the great gap in the mountains, and passing down the valley, sinks upon the prairie of the Ten Stars, where it is lost. [11]
- I have noticed that the lower the thermometer sinks the more fiercely the north wind rages, and the deeper the snow is, the higher rise the spirits of the community. [4]
- Or was it that sleep of the worn-out spirit which, tortured by remembrance and remorse, at last sinks into the depths where the conscious vexes the unconscious --a little of fire, a little of ice, and now and then the turn of the screw? [11]
- There is something stately about that name, and an impressiveness which sinks deep; the hush of death is in it. [5]
- The panting city sinks into lassitude, and for several hours there is a general repose. [4]
- Even that wonderful passage of Milton's, beginning "So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed," which he always used to beg her to repeat, did not seem to move him now. [9]
- For the greater part of the year the plateau whereon the Tent stands is covered with a sweet grass, and when the grass dies there comes a fine white frost, ungoverned by the sun, in which the footstep sinks, as into an unfilled honeycomb. [11]
- It puffs up or sinks, like the crust of a baking apple-pie. [4]
- Sad as the necessity is to their delicate sensibilities, they never hesitate to advertise him of the decline of his powers, and to press upon him the propriety of retiring before he sinks into imbecility. [6]
- And it grows, merges, disappears from the surface, sinks to the depths, and again emerges. [2]
- The sun sinks lower, the hour-hand creeps downward with it, until I hear the thrice-repeated monosyllable, Gone!--Gone!--Gone! [6]
- Then the hidden knife flashes out and sinks into her heart. [6]
- Then salt water is poured into the vessel containing the dissolved silver and the silver returns to palpable form again and sinks to the bottom. [5]
- Westward sinks thy golden car; Leave me but the evening star, And my solace that shall be, Borrowing all its light from thee! [6]
- That friend whom death from us has torn, We did not think so soon to part; An anxious care now sinks the thorn Still deeper in our bleeding heart. [5]
- The hush was broken by such a sound as one hears in a forest when a wind quivers over the earth, flutters the leaves, and then sinks away--neither having come nor gone, but only lived and died. [11]
- While the spectators are breathless, the fury ceases, the music dies, and the Spaniard sinks into a chair, panting with triumph, and inclines her dark head to the clapping of hands and the bravos. [4]
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