Perhaps, too, she had another reason for regretting her companion's witlessness. |
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Burke started, as if the tones of his companion's voice had stung him like an adder. |
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The young miner followed his companion's gaze through the garishly lit crowd. |
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With an imprecation of wrath he called his companion's attention to the spot. |
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He was indignant at his companion's rascality, and offered to go with her and try to find him. |
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I was conscious as I spoke that I looked prodigious things, for I got the slow reflection of them in my companion's face. |
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The young inspector winced at my companion's ironical comments. |
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In less than the time mentioned he was seated again by his companion's side with a square sheet of foolscap spread out upon the round table. |
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In every possible way he sought to divert his companion's mind. |
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At length she caught an eloquent look of her companion's, one of those looks which would convey intelligence to a brick wall. |
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His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion's side like a dog with its master. |
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The captain looked at Pierre by the candlelight and was evidently struck by the troubled expression on his companion's face. |
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The young man, although he could not ignore his companion's unsociable instincts, was fidgety. |
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I must go, Cathy,' said Heathcliff, seeking to extricate himself from his companion's arms. |
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But even granting that the prize might be great, Newman could not resist a movement of admiration for his companion's intrepidity. |
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He hesitated, to scrutinise his companion's inscrutable face. |
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Summerlee was weaponless, but I was emptying my magazine as quick as I could fire, and on the further flank we heard the continuous cracking of our companion's rifles. |
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More than once during the years that I had lived with him in Baker Street I had observed that a small vanity underlay my companion's quiet and didactic manner. |
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Having quickly completed these operations, he drew his chair vis-a-vis to his companion's, and waited until the latter should open the conversation. |
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The better part of my companion's character, if it have a better part, is that which usually comes uppermost in my regard, and forms the type whereby I recognise the man. |
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Her hair was as grey as her companion's, her face as bloodless and shrivelled, but amber-tinted, with swarthy shadows sharpening the nose and hollowing the temples. |
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