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... suffering of their own, they were compelled to witness the sufferings of others—to hear their sighs and groans, and look upon faces that hard usage and despair had made ghastly and terrible. They would greet in the morning a man sick and emaciated perhaps, but still a human being, erect and in God's image, who, in the evening of the same day, would disappear from among them, making a desperate dash for freedom. The following ...

— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens

... an atmosphere of loved labour; good will and high hopes greet the coming guests and ...

— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock

... hat in the manse kitchen, and felt queer for some time afterwards. Women had been introduced on tiptoe to examine the handle of his umbrella. But Rob had not come to admire. He snatched the holly from Jean's hands, and casting it on the ground pounded it with his heavy boots, crying, "Greet as you like, Jean. That's the end o' his flowers, and if I had the tawpie he got them frae I would serve her in the ...

— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie

... the dogs in the stable, and I recalled the deep baying of the night when a fine bloodhound and two great Danes leaped out to greet us. Singular companions for guns, I thought to myself, as we struck out across the fields and the great creatures bounded and ran beside us, ...

— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... dead. But the kings did not rise in the place of death to greet him "with taunting proverbs" as they rose to greet the haughty Babylonian; for in his life he was lowly, and a peacemaker and a ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson

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