Word: deeping
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...mouldy shroud in which they have now slept for half a century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider drop from the lofty roof and weave an endless web from darkness into darkness. Memory fills the hall in brooding melancholy, and protests against almost every possible new occupant of her sanctuary...
...fool who said: "Americans are the most begoverned people in the world." Between the proposers of extraordinary blue laws and equally extraordinary anti-blue laws the public is sure to be caught by the devil and the deep blue sea either going or coming. But while feasting on this lugubrious thought, it may be some comfort to know that other nations have their petty restrictions...
...Jackson sent him on a mission to the Indians of Teras. Jackson remarked: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor." Indeed, Houston looked it: 6 ft. 3 in. in moccasins, straight as an arrow, with deep, flashing eyes, high forehead, dressed like a frontiersman in leggings, hunting shirt and coonskin...
...might be found lounging, there. Among the beautiful she had collected, at Vezza were an Aldwinkle niece, one Irene, who preferred composing her own chemises to hemming her own sonnets but did the latter to please Mrs. Aldwinkle; Miss Mary Thriplow, novelist, who wanted to be "simple and deep" and whose efforts to please made her, at last, a hypocrite even to hypocrisy; among the men of genius, Tom Cardan, three-bottle philosopher with a face that had two sides-one glowering, the other lifted in perpetual satire, as if stretched in infancy by an enormous monocle; Lord Hovenden...
...hotel lavatory and is abruptly brought to life in a regular Hollywood honey ending. The economy of effect, the brilliant play of detail, the simplicity make it a text book to U. S. directors. Unfortunately, even the performance of Herr Jannings cannot make the kindly character tragedy of deep dramatic interest...