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...Story.* "A Lady Leaves Home-And Goes to Work-She Discovers Mr. Fox-and Anthony Jones-She Sees the Sunlight on the Snow-She Feels the Shadow- And Hears More about Mamma- She Sets Sail-To Italy-She Sees Something of London-and Less of Jones-Witches and Devils Torment Her-She Keeps a Good Man Dangling, but-Hymen Vincit Omnia- "Time Stays...
...unhappy. He had amassed wealth. When Mary Glenn came home with her ineffectual husband and her fraying tissue of appearances, Brand had unobtrusively put them on the farm. It was a livelihood for Elliott Glenn, who was supinely grateful. For Mary it was a refuge, but also a torment. Her snobbery remained swollen while her pretences shriveled and her beauty went...
...Dramatic Club's production ends with the flight into Egypt and omits the extensive epilogue in the course of which the Babes are slain on the stage, Herod dies in torment, consumed alive by worms, and great prodigies appear in Egypt with the arrival there of the Christ Child...
...with orderly haste" to do as they were told. That hope was dying became manifest in the furious urgency with which Navy officials investigated the most obviously fabricated reports of the plane's discovery. Somewhere in the corrugated deserts of the Pacific the ship floated, her men in a torment of thirst, staring at the horizon, or somewhere a mass of torn fabric and splintered wood served as a roost for gulls who waited for certain objects (which had sunk) to rise again. One or the other must be found. The ships, the planes, and the 18 destroyers, continued searching...
Rats. How many plague-infected rats have been observed by Dr. Evans? On what authority does he state that small creatures do not dance, attempt to fly or even to sing, under the dreadful propulsion of their final torment...