Don Quixote was about to reply, but was prevented by the duke and duchess, who came in to see him, and with them there followed a long and delightful conversation, in the course of which Sancho said so many droll and saucy things that he left the duke and duchess wondering not only at his simplicity but at his
sharpness. Don Quixote begged their permission to take his departure that same day, inasmuch as for a vanquished knight like himself it was fitter he should live in a pig-sty than in a royal palace.
The finger was stained red: it was blood; he stared upon it with disgust, and awe, and terror, and in the
sharpness of the new sensation, fell instantly to act.
She indulged in a vague movement or two, as if to look for something; then again found herself near her friend, on whom with the same abruptness, in fact with a strange
sharpness, she conferred a kiss that might have represented either her tribute to exalted consistency or her idea of a graceful close of the discussion.
The shot of a rifle loses its
sharpness in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise, coppice-topped, that makes a background for the falling rain.
He now unlocked the box, and, drawing from it another key, looked straight at her with eyes that seemed to have recovered all their
sharpness and said, "How many of 'em are in the house?"
The gravity of the situation, and the
sharpness of the doctor's intellects, as expressed in his eyes, made anything like a suppression of facts on my part a desperately dangerous experiment.
In silhouette against the sky, the profile of the horse was cut with the
sharpness of a cameo; it looked across the heights of air to the confronting cliffs beyond.
Bardell) I think possesses these qualities; and has, moreover, a considerable knowledge of the world, and a great deal of
sharpness, Mrs.
But it is early afternoon and not evening, and the edge of
sharpness in the spring air makes her draw her large shawl close about her and trip along rather quickly; though she looks round, as usual, that she may take in the sight of her beloved trees.
The queer little figure, and the queer but not ugly little face, with its bright grey eyes, were so sharp, that the
sharpness of the manner seemed unavoidable.
The energy which had at once supported him under his old sufferings and aggravated their
sharpness, had been gradually restored to him.
Jaggers's
sharpness should detect that there had been some communication unknown to him between us.