Perhaps the Count Balbo may have sometimes regretted that solemn vow, but he never betrayed repentance. |
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It was the voice of the Indian, who, with outstretched arm, was chaunting a solemn invocation to the spirit of the waters. |
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She was good-looking enough, in her thinnish, solemn way, but it seemed to me she was kind of overdressed and too grand. |
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There are days when I could do a hand-spring, if for nothing more than to shock my solemn old Dinky-Dunk out of his dourness. |
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And thereupon he registered a solemn oath never again to leave her, it mattered not how fared his clientage. |
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The most solemn of all realities have been degraded into the passwords of technical theology. |
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And old Father Murray is just the dearest old man ever was, and hasn't got a long, solemn face like Mr. barebones. |
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It is time, if they are well founded, to give a solemn stamp to their certainty, and legitimize their existence. |
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In so solemn and chastened a spirit could the artists of the trecento conceive of their Republic's deliverance. |
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This is a very short and simple entry in Mr. mailer's journal, but it has most solemn significance. |
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Chemyaka, thus constrained to set the body of his captive free, wished to enchain his soul by the most solemn oaths. |
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He ended the anthem, as he had commenced it, in the midst of a grave and solemn stillness. |
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The tsarevitch immediately returned with the greatest joy in order to thank God and begin to carry out his solemn promise. |
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We set there as solemn as if parson was preachin' to us on 'lection and predestination. |
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Dignified documents, state papers, solemn treaties, are often of no more value than the lambskin on which they are engrossed. |
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The Sun was full of the most solemn matters treated in the most farcical way. |
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What he says sounds at first like scolding, and then like a solemn curse or conjuration. |
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By being faithless to our most solemn trust, we could keep the filthy lucre. |
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Its solemn isolation, its unearthly color, and its flamelike outline fill the mind with astonishment. |
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Whatever you may be I beg of you not to be a fogy, nor to follow a fogy's solemn advice. |
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The Bernese were filled with agitation by the solemn voice of the reformer. |
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Seldom have I read such a ridiculous, solemn, addlepated Joseph Surface of a thing. |
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Alexander celebrated a solemn Mass of reconciliation in St. Peters, and the king acted as thurifer. |
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Surely, that which is forbid as solemn matter of religion, should be rather forbid as mere matter of curiousness. |
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Madame cornu's last letter was a solemn exhortation to abstain from that step. |
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His servants had deserted him, and he lived by himself in a biggish, solemn house. |
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If ever he did apostatize, he was bound by a solemn promise to the Emperor of Morocco to turn Mussulman. |
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Presently his face, preternaturally solemn and gnomish behind the goggles, protruded over the rim. |
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It was on this formal, categoric, and solemn declaration that we voted Art. |
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The scene in the parlour of grippy, after the inquiry, was of the most solemn and lugubrious description. |
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Well I knew the old graveyards of Gwent, solemn amongst the swelling hills, peaceful in the shadow of very ancient yews. |
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The sermon was to be preached on Sexagesima Sunday, a prelude to the solemn season of Lent. |
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His counsel applied to the Supreme Court for a supersedeas, but the court, after solemn argument, refused the application. |
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Who crowns his bust with laurels, or celebrates his birthday and his deathday with solemn festivals and pompous panegyrics? |
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The voice of the judge reached him, low-pitched and solemn, as befitted the occasion. |
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Father and daughter were seated in the arbored veranda at the daily solemn rite of tea. |
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Hillingdon, with his solemn, stone-jug-like face, I know to be a most infernal rogue. |
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He has obtained from his son a solemn promise never to speak to me of marriage. |
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In his most impressive style he undertook to administer a solemn rebuke for the use of such words as jockey and hocus. |
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It is a solemn day, and for one to smile is a desecration of the holy day, while laughing is gross wickedness. |
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But there was no smile of spring in the dark eyes and the snub-nosed little face was solemn and old beyond its years. |
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Grandfather had not actually promised to take themnothing so solemn as honest Injun or Cross my heart. |
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The lieutenant in his trench coat and in a new pair of roll puttees stood facing the company, looking solemn. |
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Therefore why be sapient and solemn about it, like an editorial in a newspaper? |
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As the girls took their places the solemn chords of the Stabat Mater inclined their hearts to reverential prayer. |
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And on I went as slow and solemn and silly-looking and artful as a jobbing plumber. |
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But St. John's absenting himself from our solemn revels, so long before decreed, is flat mutiny and disclamation of allegiance. |
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The sceptre of Solomon was paraded throughout the camp in solemn procession. |
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A much more barbaric performance than the stately and solemn movement of the ring dance, or kolo. |
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It is said that he procured a solemn exorcism to be performed, in the hope of disenthralling and recovering his daughter. |
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In fact, a failure to observe these solemn ceremonies places him in the position of a churlish and disfavored person. |
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The imprecatory manner of it may be considered to be simply a solemn signification of the speaker's own assent and approval. |
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Do not say I am making too solemn a matter of these movement plays, to the kindergartner. |
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The jocularities referred to have no interest to the solemn, imperturbable Mule save when he is an object of their malevolence. |
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For two disgustful minutes they extracted from him his solemn promise that henceforth he would keep his hands off the laws. |
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On the same day, a solemn festival was held in all the churches of Portugal and Algarve. |
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As loyalty is more important than age or citizenship or inhabitancy, it has been put under the solemn safeguard of an oath. |
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He was something to vary the monotony of the great solemn silence of our world. |
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Smith, with the screwdriver, walked in the middle, very solemn and very pale. |
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But a solemn sense of duty seemed to impel him to this task. |
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These umpires were inducted into office by the most solemn oaths. |
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Gray, on the other hand, speaks of the Grande Chartreuse as 'one of the most solemn, the most romantic, and the most astonishing scenes. |
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He could not any longer put away the solemn duty of visitation. |
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My good woman, you have no cause to adjure me in that solemn manner. |
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Her answer was deep-toned and affectedly solemn in one so young. |
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Felix moved from group to group, solemn, yet smooth-tongued. |
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This mysterious individual was garbed in a dress suit of solemn black. |
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It was the solemn note of a battleship destroyed by its own magazines. |
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A stern, uncompromising, and solemn spirit of inquiry is abroad. |
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On our side a solemn decision seems to be actuating the masses. |
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Heaven knows how anxiously I sought to fulfil that solemn vow! |
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He re-read the apophthegm with a slower and more solemn utterance. |
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The assemblies in her temples were solemn, and at stated periods. |
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Nothing, said Dr. Bateson, could be more solemn and emphatic. |
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But he is of your own faith, and his lightest affirmance would weigh down the most solemn protestations of the distressed Jewess. |
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They bewilder us, but they fail to make a solemn impression. |
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Notwithstanding the agent's solemn assurance, the bijou was out of repair. |
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Dinner at the moat-house was a solemn and ceremonious function. |
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Here an ancient monastery, whence the solemn chanting of the monks came down to them. |
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Burleigh listened with solemn face and with no attempt to interrupt. |
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That world-wide swell of solemn music, with the clang of a mighty bell breaking forth through its regulated uproar, announces his approach. |
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The solemn mysteries have their place, but it is one of climax. |
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It was only his apprenticed boys whose irrepressible spirits were not affected by the solemn and respectable mediocrity of that artist. |
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But b'ys,' says he, solemn and confidential, 'are you on the square? |
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She recognises, believe me, the solemn miracle which God hath wrought in the existence of that child. |
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When it was ended, a general bustle announced that it was to be immediately succeeded by a solemn and formal assemblage of the nation. |
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In solemn order Templeton ascended the dais and rendered homage. |
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It was dank and still, dim and solemn within such a forest cavern. |
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But to Horner the solemn sight was not daunting in the least. |
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Mr Brown plans to deny us all of the above by reneging on a solemn promise made by New Labour. |
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Again we meet to celebrate With badge and solemn rite, Our fifty-second anniversary, In Pickwick Hall, tonight. |
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He listened like one who was convinced, and resumed his narrative in his former solemn manner. |
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The solemn, sad-faced chiefs took the clothes and put them on. |
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A saraband lends itself to a serious and even solemn turn of thought. |
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There are the barrows still, solemn and silent, like ships in the calm sea, the sepulchres of some sons of men. |
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There was a strange blending of the ridiculous with that which was solemn in this scene. |
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Harriett felt nothing but a strange, solemn excitement and exaltation. |
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Then, a solemn invocation was made to the gods by the Druid priests. |
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The scene is too solemn for an ebullition of boisterous mirth. |
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They had solemn rubbers of whist, when they went upstairs after drinking, and their carriages were called at half past ten. |
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But Eli ate sparingly, and with a preoccupied and solemn look. |
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When he swallowed it he looked up and says, solemn as an owl, 'Give it to me oftener and more at a time. |
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It was found, identified, and entombed at Boston with solemn mourning. |
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I felt the old pull of the earth, the solemn magic that comes out of those fields at nightfall. |
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They reached me as from some solemn sanctuary, a fount of inspiration. |
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The procession was to be marshalled thence to the town hall, where a solemn banquet would complete the ceremonies of the day. |
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But among all these frothy fabrications there lay a solemn warning. |
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About the great, solemn pillars, one after the other, she reached her arms, and pressed her cheek and her lips upon the senseless brick. |
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Sometimes these tufts impart a rather brigandish expression to his otherwise solemn countenance. |
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Francis gimped out a moment later and gave him a solemn handshake. |
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Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, and their thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall. |
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I felt drawn to the rule of Saint Bruno, and made the journey to the Grande Chartreuse on foot, absorbed in solemn thoughts. |
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The solemn houses of Harley Street only increased my nausea. |
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She wasnt being solemn, and she had returned his shuttlecock smartly. |
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Lena sidled up to me and said teasingly, 'What made you so solemn? |
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He had given up kicking, and was trying to turn his thoughts upon solemn things, when his captor released him. |
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The old farmer had believed the solemn words of the impostor. |
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For a little knot of smokers and solemn gossips, who had seldom any new topics of discussion, this was a perfect Godsend. |
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Jo went and sat on one arm of the chair, looking as if she thought they were about to join in some very solemn affair. |
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Leaving this busy scene, the four, with solemn faces, proceeded to the tent where it was hoped the map would be found. |
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Outside the circle of light in which she sat, the large dining-room looked solemn and shadowy. |
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I wuz only statin' the solemn facts and truth of the matter. |
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Didn't a solemn voice from the Ionian Sea proclaim him to be dead? |
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Wragge stalked into the room, and stopped opposite Magdalen in solemn astonishment. |
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Joke books, solemn as the summersault of the trick elephant in his dotage. |
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Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. |
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And back they went to the castle to play a solemn game of lansquenet. |
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The sung strophes of the malaguena tend to be quite slow, solemn and serious, leaning towards cantejondo. |
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He followed his summoner with increasing doubt, which was not dispelled by a solemn comicality in the scene of the study. |
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The letters patent were read, and listened to in solemn silence. |
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Parker noted that his lips tightened as tho with solemn, inward resolve. |
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Never was it known positively by what means the old chevalier obtained these two solemn consecrations of his title and merits. |
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With a stately, solemn gesture, he pointed to the lunatic asylum. |
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But it was lyme regis's solemn, round-shouldered doctor who reassured me. |
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The mage pronounced these words in a tone of the most solemn earnestness. |
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It was a solemn time after one had been touched by the tithing rod. |
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At the second let me rest until the bells be tolled slow and solemn. |
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To Una Golden, of Panama, the waltz and the two-step were solemn affairs. |
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But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves. |
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On what principle the Confederation, which stands in the solemn form of a compact among the States, can be superseded without the unanimous consent of the parties to it? |
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After a strict examination conducted by the Sanitary and Social Board, the infant, if certified as Regular, is with solemn ceremonial admitted into the class of Equilaterals. |
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His favorites and the women kept on bended knees during this solemn visit. |
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So he exacted a solemn oath from a Candian noble named Crioni, then led him to his lodgings and nearly took his breath away with a sight of his glittering hoard. |
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After two or three attempts he accomplished this, with the lackey's help, and meantime a second man had approached, a tall and portly personage, solemn as an executioner. |
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Nioche at last took his daughter's paint-box in one hand and the bedaubed canvas, after giving it a solemn, puzzled stare, in the other, and led the way to the door. |
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And when the awful rite was finished, and with cold hand in cold hand, the Married of Eternity withdrew, the organ's peal of solemn triumph drowned the Wedding Knell. |
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Your notion of a humanity universally putting out the tongue and taking the pill from pole to pole at the bidding of a few solemn jokers is worthy of the prophet. |
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A tall custard-coloured phaeton tooling up in a solemn manner leaves four cards, to wit, a couple of Mr Podsnaps, a Mrs Podsnap, and a Miss Podsnap. |
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When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy. |
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It was a lonely place, and an hour made solemn by old traditions. |
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Involved in these thoughts, she scarcely heard a voice behind her until it had repeated her name more than once, in a loud and solemn tone, audible to the whole multitude. |
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The hush was solemn and churchlike, save for a distant battery that, evidently unable to remain quiet, sent a faint rolling thunder over the ground. |
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The sled was the one point of life and motion in the midst of the solemn quietude, and the harsh churn of its runners but emphasized the silence through which it moved. |
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Meantime, the chairman of the Selectmen was addressing to the Lieutenant-Governor a long and solemn protest against the reception of the British troops into the town. |
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The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time. |
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The house at that hour was solemn, otherworldly in its motionlessness. |
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And then rose up that solemn veiled figure, and drew aside the veil. |
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Every rib could be counted and every joint of the spine, though Mistress Mary did not count them as she bent over and examined them with a solemn savage little face. |
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I am privileged to be present when the Rocky Mountain Rangers troop the colors and I stand solemn, like the children, and I salute when the flag goes by. |
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To me there was something unspeakably uncomfortable in the solemn dead silences that always followed this old person's tremendous outpourings of his feelings. |
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Dashwood had been informed by her husband of the solemn promise on the part of his son in their favour, which gave comfort to his last earthly reflections. |
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To Tess's sense there was, just at first, a ghastly BIZARRERIE, a grim incongruity, in the march of these solemn words of Scripture out of such a mouth. |
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The service of Solemn Evensong takes place at the city landmark from 4pm. |
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