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- And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
- You will not wipe it out, and come back, and take your own--now? [11]
- Where she could wipe away a tear she always did so. [10]
- And soon I was in his arms; but although that he kissed me lovingly, meseemed that something strange was on his lips which pleased me not, and I yet remember that I put my kerchief to my mouth to wipe that from it. [10]
- Once when she was a little creature of three or four years she suddenly brought her tiny foot down upon the floor in an apparent outbreak of indignation, then fetched it a backward wipe, and stooped down to examine the result. [5]
- In truth it was a difficult task, for he pressed me again and again, and when he saw me firm, turned away to wipe his eyes upon his sleeve. [9]
- She did not turn to the others, for her eyes were full of tears, and she did not dare to wipe them away, nor yet to let them be seen. [11]
- And while she tried to wipe the tears away she felt Mrs. Merrill's arm about her, and heard that lady say:--"We'll try to make you very happy, my dear, and send you back safely in the spring. [9]
- He was prepared to wipe out the fishing-post if Mattingley did not produce Ranulph--well, "here was Ranulph duly produced and insultingly setting up a tent on this sheer rock, with some snippet of the devil," said Richambeau, and defying a great French war-ship. [11]
- I was glad to think that the serving-man might believe that I put my kerchief to my eyes only to wipe away the whirling snow. [10]
- When Noel got to the second part, and that heart-breaking refrain began to melt and move all listeners, the Paladin began to wipe away tears with the back of first one hand and then the other. [5]
- Then she longed to press forward to his side, wipe the perspiration from his brow in the hot, low corridor, and whisper words of love and encouragement. [10]
- Those good old times are gone when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his troubles to sleep simply by getting out his bricks and mortar and building an addition to a church. [5]
- He took Judge Thornton aside and whispered the important question to him,--in his distress of mind, mistaking pockets and taking out his bandanna instead of his white handkerchief to wipe his forehead. [6]
- You cannot wipe things out--on earth. [11]
- Will they get there and fire the bridge or will the French get within grapeshot range and wipe them out? [2]
- They look on the Saadat as a kind of mascot, and they think that he can wipe out the enemy with his flute, which they believe is a witch-stick to work wonders. [11]
- He traveled about the empire, leaving as wide a space as possible between himself and that house of doom, from which he could never wipe out the stain of his brother's blood. [10]
- She handed him the cloth that lay on the table for him to wipe his streaming forehead. [10]
- Nothing could wipe that out, neither law nor nations. [11]
- Then it was that he had the impulse to go to the woman's home, express his sorrow, and in some small sense wipe out his wrong by offering her marriage. [11]
- And from another standpoint, though the prisoner merited any fate reserved for him, if guilty of spying, he could not forget that his life had been saved by this British captain--an obligation which, unfortunately, he could neither repay nor wipe out. [11]
- Sometimes he unconsciously raised his hand to wipe the dust from his burning eyes, but he cared little that he saw very indistinctly what was passing around him, for there could be nothing more beautiful than what he beheld with his inward vision. [10]
- The case was plain, but it seemed preposterous, nevertheless--as preposterous as trying to knock down a mountain or wipe out a continent. [5]
- He only asked permission to wipe his eyes ere his arms were bound behind his back; for tear after tear was falling on the grey beard of the warder who, outwitted and overpowered, no longer felt capable of discharging the duties of his office. [10]
- Could repentance, confession, penitence, wipe away this stain? [4]
- This balance Mr. Pembroke was palpably anxious to wipe out, or at least to reduce. [9]
- I can't wipe out what I have done, but I can put you right before the world, I can prove to you that I set you above place and ambition. [11]
- To wipe me out of the life where I have flourished--what a triumph for him! [11]
- I lived in one: to expiate--to wipe out-- a past, by spending my life for others. [11]
- The arbitrary caprices of the mighty can efface all happiness from the life of a human creature, just as we wipe a picture from the tablet with a sponge. [10]
- He picked up my old chalk pipe from the floor, gave the stem a wipe or two on his knee, filled the bowl from the tobacco-box at his side, and said to me in a tone of pert command: "Gimme a match! [5]
- I would give my life for Fyles the trader, but I would give more than my life to wipe out my father's shame, and to show that Konto of the Little Crees is no dog. [11]
- Often in the middle of his work he would stop, throw down his pick-axe, and spread out his arms--but only to drop them with a deep groan, and wipe the sweat from his brow. [10]
- So--I shall be merry too, for I have scores to wipe away, and they shall be wiped clean-- clean. [11]
- He doesn't tell me, and I don't ask him, for I came along to wipe his stirrups, so to speak. [11]
- They would wipe me with their feet. [11]
- That I should love him is no wonder, but that he should love me--' and there the schoolmaster stopped, and took off his spectacles to wipe them, as though they had grown dim. [12]
- The water he is baptized with to-day he will wipe away to-morrow, and the old gods will be his defenders, if in more peaceful times he maintains them against your superstitions. [10]
- We'll get them in the open, and wipe them out. [11]
- She gently released his hand from her grasp and laid it across his breast, and moved no more, excepting to wipe the drops from his brow. [10]
- To wipe out his account with the nation and restore business to its natural and incompetent channels he had to be banished the realm. [5]
- Panting for breath, he seized his handkerchief to wipe it, and in doing so the roll of velvet which he had held under his arm fell on the floor. [10]
- In flaming colors he painted to her the good she might do in such a position, and the tears she might wipe away. [10]
- Twice only did he hastily turn away and privily wipe his eyes. [10]
- Time is de great t'ing, so de hofficier wipe de tears out of his face again. [11]
- It licks your feet,--its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you; but it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. [6]
- Lajeunesse, wipe your face with your leather. [11]
- If she could do some great service for him, would not that wipe out the unsettled claim? [11]
- But suppose you could effect your whole purpose; suppose you could wipe the Bank from existence, which is the grand ultimatum of the project, what would be the consequence? [7]
- Stevens's horse would carry him, when he was not noticing, under the huge excrescences which form on the trunks of oak-trees, and wipe him out of the saddle; in this way Stevens got several bad hurts. [5]
- It does look as if he might slip that slender rapier through your body in a second, and pull it out and wipe it, and not move a muscle; but I don't think he would do it unless he were directly ordered to. [4]
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