business, such as rushing in a house to drag forth a sewing-machine in payment for a debt, or getting herself worked up over some matter concerning the law-they had toward her a feeling which was a mixture of exasperation, a ridiculous little inside tickle, and a deep, unnameable sadness...
“Tom's getting very profound, ” said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness. “He reads deep books with long words in them. What was that word we-” “Well, these books are all scientific, ” insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently. “This fellow has worked out the who...
business, such as rushing in a house to drag forth a sewing-machine in payment for a debt, or getting herself worked up over some matter concerning the law-they had toward her a feeling which was a mixture of exasperation, a ridiculous little inside tickle, and a deep, unnameable sadness...
It was not till the rays of the sun had absorbed the young stranger’s retreating figure on the hill that she shook off her temporary sadness and answered her would-be partner in the affirmative. She remained with her comrades till dusk, and participated with a certain zest in the ...
'Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved.' 'Tom's getting very profound,' said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness. ...
The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness. Then on the top of these more or less vague impressions there had come the definite an...
“Here at last is a true lover,” said the Nightingale. “Night after night have I sung of him, though I knew him not: night after night have I told his story to the stars, and now I see him. His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom...
of being a very learned man. His household used to consist of an elderlyhousekeeper28, Mrs. Marker, and of a maid, Susan Tarlton. These have both been with him since his arrival, and they seem to be women of excellent character. The Professor is writing a learned book, and he found ...
The Empty House The Adventure of the Empty House Arthur Conan Doyle It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexpli
Remus detected a hint of sadness from Dumbledore, not in his voice, but behind those familiar glasses as he looked unwaveringly at Sirius."I would never wish to place Harry in more danger," he continued gravely. "And my presence is a danger to him, proof by the feelings he experienced ...