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There was a gleam in her eye and a quivering of her lip which betokened wrath.

There was that in her face which betokened disapproval, mingled with curiosity, for she had never seen a dance, and never, except on a barrel-organ, heard dance music.

It could have betokened nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment.

The child's own nature had something wrong in it which continually betokened that she had been born amiss-the effluence of her mother's lawless passion-and often impelled Hester to ask, in bitterness of heart, whether it were for ill or good that the poor little creature had been born at all.

There would have been no scandal, indeed, nor peril to the holy whiteness of the clergyman's good fame, had she visited him in his own study, where many a penitent, ere now, had confessed sins of perhaps as deep a dye as the one betokened by the scarlet letter.

His step was elastic, and his face betokened inward pleasantry, as he advanced to Mr.

This circumstance betokened his natural perfections; but with his temperament, the firing a gun might be a dangerous trial.

[35] HANDEL [36] [37] HANDELToC I n a garret choked with lumber of various kinds, to which the dust of years had imparted the greyish hue of neglect and decay, a little fair-haired boy was seated before a spinet, fingering its yellow keys with a tenderness that betokened his fondness for the instrument.

He was a mere stripling, short of stature, shabbily clothed, and with a keen look on his pale face that betokened a want of food and rest.

The violations of morality which the French frequently witness do not appear to me to have a permanent character; and this is already betokened by some curious signs of the times.


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