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Viewing it, they hugged themselves in ecstatic pity of their imagined or real condition.
For though I tried to move his arm --unlock his bridegroom clasp --yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.
Up in his room he hugged me, he was so out of his head for gladness because he was going traveling.
At the same time, he hugged his shuddering body in both his arms - clasping himself, as if to hold himself together - and limped towards the low church wall.
In the shadows of the forest that flanks the crimson plain by the side of the Lost Sea of Korus in the Valley Dor, beneath the hurtling moons of Mars, speeding their meteoric way close above the bosom of the dying planet, I crept stealthily along the trail of a shadowy form that hugged the darker places with a persistency that proclaimed the sinister nature of its errand.
He turned and saw her with the balu hugged close to her hairy breast, and put out his hands to take the little one, expecting that Teeka would bare her fangs and spring upon him; but instead she placed the balu in his arms, and coming nearer, licked his frightful wounds.
Billy Rawlins closed with the wager, and Bettles hugged Kearns ecstatically.
Sylvie simply stroked the great paw: Bruno hugged it: the Master of the Ceremonies looked shocked.
And all the way Kala carried her little dead baby hugged closely to her breast.
Natasha lifted her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting her.
James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs.
then we should be free.' When the little girl heard this (for she stood behind the door all the time and listened), she ran forward, and in an instant all the ravens took their right form again; and all hugged and kissed each other, and went merrily home.