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...ive features. It is land with- out form. It stretches away without cape or bluff, long and low—indefinitely; and when the heavy gusts of the northeast... ...l like a wind- ing sheet. The bushes of the bank tapped their twigs on the bluff of her bows, and a pendent spike of tiny brown blossoms swung to and ...

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...p and smooth to be traversed in any other way. One must have a steel hook, on another rope—a very useful thing; for when one is ascending and comes to... ...n one is ascending and comes to a low bluff which is yet too high for the ladder, he swings this rope aloft like a lasso, the hook catches at the top ...

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...rybody knows.” Quebec and Malta here exclaim, with clapping of hands, that Bluffy is sure to bring mother something, and begin to speculate on what it... ...persuade him; he listened with that gentleness which went so well with his bluff bearing, but was evidently no more shaken by our rep resentations th... ...g and a very hearty company and infi nite enjoyment, and Mr. George comes bluff and martial through it all, and his pledge to be present at the marri...

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...o long had sought. On each side of the fall, two lofty and perpen- dicular bluffs buttressed the sides of the enormous cliff, and projected into the s...

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...ry cast its light upon the margin of the forest and to illumine the little bluff on which they stood. The position struck him as dangerous and he left...

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... I thought he should offer to the eye some 10 Essays of Travel bold type of humanity, with bluff or hawk-like features, and the stamp of an eager and...

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...ess of their skin. Ibrahim Pasha, riding by in his barouche, looked like a bluff jolly-faced English dra- goon officer, with a grey moustache and red ...

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...eize friend Metivier?” asked Gigonnet, pointing to the broker, who had the bluff face of a porter. “Your great-niece Elisabeth is out there, papa Gigo...

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... eighteenth cen- tury about her, I always Said. Her language for example … Bluff vigour … “She died comparatively poor. These big weeds got into her g...

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... attention.” A mangy little Jackal, who had been yapping hungrily on a low bluff, cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows to jo...

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...for most of them had very queer names, some in Latin, some in English. The bluff doctor put on his spectacles, and looked over the slip of yellow and ...

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... was a tall man, over six feet high, and broad in proportion, and he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and red- dened and lined in his ...

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...d when he thought of his little favourite. He stands before me again, his bluff hairy face irradiating with a joyful love and pride, for which I can ... ...amily, I reminded him of the boatman whom he had seen at school. Oh! That bluff fellow! said Steerforth. He had a son with him, hadn t he? No. Th... ...er innocently kiss her chosen husband on the cheek, and creep close to his bluff form as if it were her best support. When they went away together, in...

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...know more by-and-by. But never will a lord come to Woodstock so welcome as bluff old King Harry! He would horsewhip a fellow one day with his own roya... ...” said Varney; “for a reverend father abbot, who was fain to give place to bluff King Hal and some of his courtiers, a score of years since, had a che... ...became an experienced man of war, who had fought under the Queen’s father, bluff King Henry, at the siege of Boulogne. This chieftain was, as right an...

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... And truly, they were as sturdy and The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 273 bluff a pair of boots as one would wish to see; as firmly planted on the gr... ... Witherden. ‘Is that the lad?’ asked an elderly gentleman, but of a stout, bluff figure—who was in the room. ‘That’s the lad, ’ said Mr Witherden. ‘He... ...ld be night again before they reached their place of destination. Kit, all bluff and hardened with the cold, went on manfully; and, having enough to d...

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...he stroller had a glimpse of the Casco tossing in the narrow anchorage below; and beyond he had ever before him the dark amphitheatre of the Atuona mo...

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... sir, how d’ye do! Any news?’ ‘Why no, ’ returned the grocer, in his usual bluff man- ner. ‘No, none partickler. None that I am much aware of. How d’y...

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...ed by a 196 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 1 crisply curling auburn head and a bluff countenance, the Sec- retary descried the orphan. It unfortunately ha...

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... was ever so finely placed as New York, so magnificently cut up by sea and bluff and river, so admirably disposed to display the tall effects of bui...

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...e screen before the fire where I found them, that he recollected him as “a bluff, rosy fellow.” This was the utmost description Ada could give me. 47... ... Richard a person who had for merly been a cavalry soldier; he was a fine bluff looking man, of a frank free bearing, with whom Richard had practised... ...itation, into that department. “ And little Malta, too! Come and kiss your Bluffy!” These young ladies—not supposed to have been actually christened b... ...nd as it takes time even then for Mr. George, in his domestic character of Bluffy, to take leave of Quebec and Malta and insinuate a sponsorial shilli... ...those young ladies 481 Bleak House – Dickens sensible that their existing Bluffy is not the Bluffy of their usual frolicsome acquaintance, she winks ...