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...under me. The pressure of the air was such that my ears, which nature erected at perfectly true right-angles with my head, lay back upon it as flat as if naturally coalescent. I shrieked at the flying steed that perhaps he had better save himself a little. Vain, futile words! they never reached his ears till he went round the track and met them on the other side. He heeded not, nor heard; he merely went, he simply hummed, and I hung on to the dash-board with my teeth...
Yung had reached the skins; he laid his hand on them. They divided, and he saw behind them the bower of Tue Swe. In an instant he felt that hope of escape was vain, he turned and faced the enemy, he spoke. "No," he replied...
...mother of a wonderful race; he told his weary wandering in search of a father worthy of such descendants, and his success in finding such a father in the person of his hearer; and he begged that Yung might not, by refusing to gratify his wishes, make his search vain...
...stretch across one foot to it while the other is still engaged in "rastling" with the first log. Now how to get the second foot over? You are fearful of slipping. Yet the new support seems to maintain its composure and sobriety. You can surely count upon it. Vain hope! These two are but confederates in crime. For suddenly this, too, begins to rotate. You struggle for a moment to keep both feet moving in opposite directions, become demoralized, lose your head and your foothold, and plunge into the water, while your torturers indulge in a mighty flop of intense...
...bright thought crossed his mind. He would wear the clothing he had taken off the night before. Vain hope! The janitor had removed it, and all the rest was in the college locker in charge of the Faculty! Oh, horrible! Cold perspiration stood upon his brow as he paced the floor. Was he to miss chapel? What would his grandmother say when he broke the awful truth to her? Should he be obliged to shake the confiding trust of his dear teachers, and be for ever condemned in their eyes as a wicked chapel-cutter? He sickened at the thought...