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round and taking in the lustre and the opulence of the ballroom
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It was as impressive as any of the towers of Babel, with the gold adding a brilliant lustre to the structure
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The hills beyond glistened with the chill splendid lustre of moonlight on snow
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The glow went out of her face and the lustre out of her eyes
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Far away on the horizon was the low dim lustre of the Charlottetown lights
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45 ACP through the hood of that BMW 550 that cut me off, but I’m certain the following jail time would dull the lustre
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Killing has lost its lustre
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Although middle aged in my eyes she still has her beauty and her long hair still retains its black lustre, her eyes are dark pools that reflect a very resourceful and stubborn woman whom I love dearly; she is the centre of my life, everything I do or say revolves around my mother
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The stud master’s personality was reflected in the austere presentation of the surroundings where dark leather furniture and bare polished floorboards produced a dull lustre
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The floor of the office was covered with tiles that looked like marble, and the wooden panels on the wall had that deep lustre which only frequent waxing, polishing, and years of patina could bring about
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back with a headscarf of equal lustre and taste and her neck was decorated with
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His wife, his life and his inspiration has vacated his village of lustre and love,
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Our married life led us to a perfect family life of over half a century but as usual, that passionate route of love and lustre had to come to an end
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diet as they lubricate, nourish and create lustre in the skin
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For me London has always had a lustre that topped any other city in the world where I have been
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But, on the other hand, it is matter of fact that a considerable number of persons, including some of the highest power, who have seen cause to adopt the foregoing interpretations of Scripture, have declared that, in consequence of the modification of their ideas, Redemption, as a display of the Holy Love and Justice of God, has become a subject of constant and delightful thought, so that Christianity in general has assumed an air of stronger reality; that since, in the language of Baxter, faith has become, in all its exercises, an act of the conscience and reason, God has drawn nearer to them; they have perceived fresh force in the command to love the Lord their God with all their understandings as well as with all their hearts; and finally, that, instead of the lustre of the gospel truths which they believed before being diminished, those truths have come forth into high relief, marked with a grander and more vivid outline, and surrounded by a brighter radiance,—as if a faded fresco-painting had been transformed into statuary, and illuminated by the beams of the sun
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The skin developed lustre and a healthy texture where before it had been dry and wrinkled
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Sea glass in a saucer loses its lustre no sooner than silks do
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Poetry, gentle sir, is, as I take it, like a tender young maiden of supreme beauty, to array, bedeck, and adorn whom is the task of several other maidens, who are all the rest of the sciences; and she must avail herself of the help of all, and all derive their lustre from her
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"God bless me!" said the duke aloud at this, "who can have done the world such an injury? Who can have robbed it of the beauty that gladdened it, of the grace and gaiety that charmed it, of the modesty that shed a lustre upon it?"
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varying sensations of my active soul, which only served to heighten the lustre of the luxuriant scenery
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To these busy men their work was but the ordinary labour of earning a living; their duties in their ever-recurring round had, like the sun itself, the commonness of daily things; their individual fidelity was not so much united as merely co-ordinated by an aim that shone with no spiritual lustre
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"Commander of the Faithful," said he, "dazzled though I am by the lustre of your
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His features were pretty yet, and his eye and complexion brighter than I remembered them, though with merely temporary lustre borrowed from the salubrious air and genial sun
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his eyes, that sparkled with more excited lustre, and his inflamed
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with a large diamond ring on one of his fingers, the lustre of which
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with ten-fold lustre; her languor was vanished, and she appeared quick,
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far surpassed even the whitest, in the life and lustre of its colours, white
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One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: "If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy
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When he had flicked lustre into his shoes he stood up and pulled his waistcoat down more tightly on his plump body
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What? Malign such an one, the amiable Miss Callan, who is the lustre of her own sex and the astonishment of ours? And at an instant the most momentous that can befall a
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It was certainly a doubtful charm, imparting a hard, metallic lustre to the child's character
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Busoni turned around, and, perceiving the excitement depicted on the magistrate's face, the savage lustre of his eyes, he understood that the revelation had been made at the assizes; but beyond this he was ignorant
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clouded, then it shone with unusual lustre, and a large tear rolled down his cheek
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"But as I snatched a look, the first gleam that struck me, was in general the dewy lustre of the whitest skin imaginable, which the sun playing upon made the reflection of it perfectly beamy
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Her countenance and whole frame grew more animated; the faint blush of her cheeks, gaining ground on the white, deepened into a florid vivid vermillion glow, her naturally brilliant eyes now sparkled with ten-fold lustre; her languor was vanished, and she appeared quick, spirited and alive all over
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Her gallant began first, as she stood, to disengage, her breasts, and restore them to the liberty of nature, from the easy confinement of no more than a pair of jumps; but on their coming out to view, we thought a new light was added to the room, so superiourly shining was their whiteness; then they rose in so happy a swell as to compose her a well horned fullness of bosom, that had such an effect on the eye as to seem flash hardened into marble, of which it emulated the polished gloss, and far surpassed even the whitest, in the life and lustre of its colours, white weined with blue
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Then gently removing her hand, which in the first emotion of natural modesty, she had carried thither, he gave us rather a glimpse than a view of that soft narrow chink running its little length downwards, and hiding the remains of it between her thighs; but plain was to be seen the fringe of light-brown curls, in beauteous growth over it, that with their silk gloss created a pleasing variety from the surrounding white, whose lustre too, their gentle embrowning shade, considerably raised
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That fact shed a great lustre upon his name till it became eclipsed by the rising star of Montero
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Dirt and rust tarnished the lustre of his short beard
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In her craving for the lustre of her true position as his wife, and to hide from her parents the vast extent of the division between them, she made use of this letter as her reason for again departing, leaving them under the impression that she was setting out to join him
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Vincy in her declining years, and in the diminished lustre of her housekeeping, was much comforted by her perception that two at least of Fred's boys were real Vincys, and did not "feature the Garths
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Thus I ne’er fail’d to converse sensibly with Lustre, to inform him of the Purpose of our Journey, and he always serv’d me better for that Reason, because I honour’d him as a Rational Creature
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Perhaps, as I remarkt to Lustre, ’twas a false Safety
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I then tried to find a Metaphor from the Sphere of Horses so that Lustre should entirely understand my Meaning
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“Lustre, I love only you,” I said, spurring him on and galloping towards the High Road
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I was able to reflect upon the Beauties of the Countryside and upon my Plight, as well as to consider the Uncertainty of my Future, and to discourse with Lustre upon the opposing Philosophies of the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, who expounded the Perfection of the Universe and the Naturalness of Virtue in Man, and of Mr
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What did Lustre think? Was he content with his Place in the Great Chain of Being? Did he believe this was the Best of all Possible Worlds? When he turn’d his Noble Head and lookt me Eye to Eye, he seem’d to say that he was happy with his Place so long as I should be his Mistress, but that he should hardly be so happy if a Horse Thief or Robber should take him
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The Thought of losing Lustre led to the Thought of how I had been betray’d, which in turn led to the Thought of leaving my Step-Mother without so much as a Farewell Kiss
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I turn’d away from this Sight, once again grown melancholick, and led Lustre into the Throng in search of a Pyeman or some other Purveyor of Foodstuffs
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Down comes Doggett from his Pulpit, seizes Lustre by the Halter, praises his Beauty with a covetous Look, and says: “I’ll water yer Horse, Boy
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” In a trice, he leads Lustre to an Enclosure behind the Pulpit, hands the Halter to his Manservant, and mounts the Booth again before the teeming Crowd
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I was musing thus, and trying to make my Way out of the Tent to reclaim Lustre, when a fat, red-faced Village Maid before me, turn’d to me and shouted,
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Whereupon, just as my fierce Adversary prepar’d to draw, there came a Thund’ring of Hooves in the thick Air of the Tent and a terrifying Neighing and Whinnying—and who should appear but Lustre himself with Doggett’s poor would-be Horse Thief of a Servant clinging for Dear Life to his Neck! My beloved Stallion stampeded into the Centre of the Ring, rear’d up, throwing Doggett’s Servant clear, whinnied like Pegasus flying across the Skies, dipp’d his Head thrice as if to bid me to mount, slow’d whilst I clamber’d onto his Back, and gallop’d away like the very Wind, with his shockt but grateful Mistress hanging on to his Back
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Of all the Wonders of Nature they had seen on this remarkable Day, Lustre was surely the most wond’rous
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I spurr’d on Lustre, who was, anyway, galloping as fast as his weary Legs could carry him, but alas, Doggett kept gaining on us
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I was kneeling thus by the Stream, cupping the cool Water in my Hands whilst Lustre lapp’d contentedly beside me, when suddenly I noticed a strange bent Figure in a high-crown’d Beaver Hat loping along the River-Bank, follow’d silently by a silky Persian Cat
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A steady Rain began to drum upon the Roof; a chill Wind flew down the Chimney causing the Fire to dance madly for a Moment, then leap upward once more; and Lustre rear’d upon his hind Legs, neigh’d wildly, show’d his Face at the Window, his Eyes blazing, and then grew suddenly silent again
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At that very Moment, Isobel appear’d out of the Rain, where she had tended to Lustre, and hearing the last Query, made quick to answer (as if, i’faith, she had not been out of the Room)
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“Lustre is well,” she said
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Therefore, I was to wear my Travelling Clothes—Daniel’s Clothes, to speak truly—and Lustre was to be groom’d and fed and prepar’d for the long Journey
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Joan led Lustre forward into the Centre of the Ring
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Ne’ertheless, I recall that Isobel took me aside and whisper’d that now I must mount Lustre and ride far beyond the edge of the Ditch surrounding the Great Upright Stones; for I had not yet been formally baptis’d into the Cult and there was one Part of the Ritual I must not see
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Without thinking of my own Safety, I spurr’d Lustre and gallop’d back towards the Ring, but when we were scarce halfway there, the Horse rear’d up, and would go no closer; i’faith, he froze in his Tracks like a statuary Horse cast of Bronze
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Without Lustre, I was truly friendless
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) And what was Lustre if not an Agreeable Companion? O I was now more wretched than e’er!
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What if my dearest Lustre should be lost at Sea?
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” And yet I said this merely for the Sake of Argument, for had I not convers’d quite reasonably with my own Horse, Lustre? Alas, that I could not introduce the Dean to him!
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I listen’d deeply to the Whinnying of the Mares, striving to hear the Rational Language which the Dean assur’d me was to be found there—but all I could hear, alas, was Whinnying! Perhaps one must live with a Horse to understand him—for tho’ surely had I understood Lustre, these strange Horses I could not
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I’faith, the Dean was so caught up in his Fancies and Reveries about Horses, that I could scarce tell him of my Horse, Lustre, of the fine Arabians Lord Bellars had imported, of the many Foalings I myself had witness’d as a Child, of that splendid Moment, the Culmination of eleven Months of great Anticipation, when the Foal emerges, Forelegs first, then Muzzle, then Cheaks, then Ears, then Withers, then Flank, and then the Foal entire, with the Moon-blue Membranes gleaming, and the Waters of the Womb still glist’ning upon his infant Fuzz! My own fondest Childhood Memories were also of Horses
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Yet I was sure I knew the Reason for these miraculous Finds: I had been initiated as a Witch and Lustre was my Familiar
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I only know that from the Moment Lustre was restor’d to me, Good Luck came to take the Place of Bad!
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They woke, they kindled: first, they glowed in the bright tint of her cheek, which till this hour I had never seen but pale and bloodless; then they shone in the liquid lustre of her eyes, which had suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple’s—a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance
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And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre
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On the neck lay a pale reflection like moonlight; the same faint lustre touched the train of thin clouds from which rose and bowed this vision of the Evening Star
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We were, as I have said, in the dining-room: the lustre, which had been lit for dinner, filled the room with a festal breadth of light; the large fire was all red and clear; the purple curtains hung rich and ample before the lofty window and loftier arch; everything was still, save the subdued chat of Adèle (she dared not speak loud), and, filling up each pause, the beating of winter rain against the panes
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His countenance reminded one of a lamp quenched, waiting to be re-lit—and alas! it was not himself that could now kindle the lustre of animated expression: he was dependent on another for that office! I had meant to be gay and careless, but the powerlessness of the strong man touched my heart to the quick: still I accosted him with what vivacity I could
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But Pip loved life, and all life's peaceable securities; so that the panic-striking business in which he had somehow unaccountably become entrapped, had most sadly blurred his brightness; though, as ere long will be seen, what was thus temporarily subdued in him, in the end was destined to be luridly illumined by strange wild fires, that fictitiously showed him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler's frolic on the green; and at melodious even-tide, with his gay ha-ha! had turned the round horizon into one star-belled tambourine
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So, though in the clear air of day, suspended against a blue-veined neck, the pure-watered diamond drop will healthful glow; yet, when the cunning jeweller would show you the diamond in its most impressive lustre, he lays it against a gloomy ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun, but by some unnatural gases
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But as all else in him thinned, and his cheek-bones grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller and fuller; they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but deeply looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened
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Cast a gay lustre on the snow,
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The curtain and the costumes were of rich materials willingly supplied by the soldiers, and a huge lustre, stolen from one of the churches, gave the necessary light
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It is wonderful how much older and less good-looking you have grown in these years ; please forgive this candour, you were thirty-seven even then, though, I gazed at you with admiration; what wonderful hair you had, almost jet black, with a brilliant lustre without a trace of grey; moustaches and whiskers, like the setting of a jewel: I can find no other expression for it; your face of an even pallor; not like its sickly pallor to-day, but like your daughter, Anna Andreyevna, whom I had the honour of seeing this morning ; dark, glowing eyes, and gleaming teeth, especially when you laughed
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The church lustre was dotted with candles, joyful melodies of volunteer singers with roaring bass and piercing contralto mingled with the chant of the choir
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Listlessly Lazarus set foot on the streets of the Eternal City, as though all its riches, all the majesty of its gigantic edifices, all the lustre and beauty and music of refined life, were simply the echo of the wind in the desert, or the misty images of hot running sand
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Timid the moon with modest lustre rose,
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We have no need to resort for illustration of its nature to the twilight lustre of history, nor yet to the vibrating brightness of human intellect
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Proceeding on through a narrower crevice in the rocks, we are soon introduced into other apartments, differing in shape and size from the first, but resembling it in the irregularity of its walls, floor, and covering, and in the calcareous incrustations and concretions, which, assuming a thousand fantastic shapes, and displaying a sparkling lustre, the more vivid as the light is stronger, give to this whole grotto the power of charming every beholder
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And if they should prove as excellent as it is expected they will, this discovery will shed new lustre upon the accumulating evidence of the mineralogical resources of this republic
