and julian might have raised himself to the rank of minister or general of the state in which he was born a private citizen if the jealous caprice of power had disappointed his expectations if he had prudently declined the paths of greatness

her talk of her figure of her skin offended me and observing this she would when she was angry say all sorts of vulgar things taunting me a few strokes of cruelty are added to the portrait even at a good humoured moment

the phoenix would take wing again and david would settle back against a rock and watch sometimes he thought of the education he was to get sometimes he thought how nice it would be if he could fly and sometimes he did not think at all but just sat with his eyes half shut

not also require natural aptitude for his calling certainly then it will be our duty to select if we can natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city it will and the selection will be no easy matter i said but we must be brave and do our best

now there's some sense in suspecting him exclaimed patsy we know he's a robber already and a man who is clever enough to sell uncle john three lives of the saints would stick at nothing i'm sure he hasn't enough courage to commit a great crime observed beth

and well educated for that age very studious very fond of our books and well grounded in the german french spanish and english languages also we were marvelous musical prodigies

while he is yet very young in order that he may grow up with a flattened head which is considered a mark of beauty among these savages just as small feet are so considered among the chinese you know

so jane is getting her horsewhipping boy and according to the method of a careful and thoughtful judge who orders thirty lashes of the cat in three applications of ten

i think we need neither doubt nor fear i think we ought to recur a moment to i think we shall all recognize i think we should do well to call to mind

and if they were the first to fall it was with an effect of curiosity sated without hint of discomfiture and somehow the adventurer felt himself measured classified filed away between amusement and pique he continued to stare while the elderly american recovered his breath

and davy hurled cent and nickel

no preacher ever had more heterogeneous materials to work upon and one secret of the massive influence lay in the highly mixed character of his preaching baldassarre wrought into an ecstasy of self martyring revenge

most of them are men who have been in the army and i believe have been appointed to these situations to get rid of them because they were troublesome and they are any thing but good characters the consequence is that we kill but few deer

with your tremendous speed we can reach that range and back all right then we can leave a sort of

the great commerce of every civilized society is that carried on between the inhabitants of the town and those of the country it consists in the exchange of rude for manufactured produce either immediately or by the intervention of money

says that light is a species of quality i answer that some writers have said that the light in the air has not a natural being such as the color on a wall has but only an intentional being

his efforts had been for naught with an angry toss of his head the ape man turned upon the two lions who had continued to pace back and forth a few yards from him numa of the lion pit turned a friendly glance in tarzan's direction

the manuscript of which he sent to mister innes a clergyman in england

when she went to her foul steerage bunk at last between the clashing engines it was not to sleep but only to wait for the morning and waiting grieve it had been imagined that

which present to their eyes inspires new courage and a glad surprise for sudden in the fiery tracts above

a sediment nearly resembling tapioca the grated pulp is sifted into a quantity of water from which it is afterwards strained and dried and the sediment thus produced is called arrowroot

specially put on as he fancied for his benefit cut particularly open in the shape of a trapeze on her white bosom this quadrangular opening in spite of the bosom's being very white or just because it was very white

consisted of beef and vegetables boiled together in one huge caldron into which new supplies were thrown indiscriminately as fast as they were delivered the bread was moldy and the beef too tough even for well men to eat

no the way all the best authorities does is to saw the bed leg in two and leave it just so

they show a bloody footprint in a bed chamber of oakwell hall and tell a story connected with it and with the lane by which the house is approached captain batt was believed to be far away

the sicyonians also sent off two hundred heavy infantry at same time as the corinthians under the command of sargeus a sicyonian

while i lay up in my soul what will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience but this mood was not invariable with me the passiveness of bartleby sometimes irritated me i felt strangely goaded on to encounter him in new opposition

college boys cried his lordship winking and blinking as other less majestic mortals do when awakened suddenly out of their morning sleep yes my lord replied the servant all the school's come up such a lot of em

do you think you will ever get to college oh i don't know anne looked dreamily afar to the opal tinted horizon marilla's eyes will never be much better than they are now although we are so thankful to think that they will not get

this missionary had a son in the school and i noticed that whatever the missionary might have said or done with regard to others he was careful not to take his son away from the institution

for as it is evident that these have a regular conjunction with motives and circumstances and characters and as we always draw inferences from one to the other we must be obliged to acknowledge in words that necessity which we have already avowed in every deliberation of our lives

yet there were moments when i should have had little trouble in imagining him a hundred years of age but in no regard was he more peculiar than in his personal appearance he was singularly tall and thin

if we were to resign our charge for the purpose of going to bombay or hong kong or any place in africa the churches and the people would exclaim at the heroism of missions

took monte carlo by capitulation they then besieged uzzano

then the little man began to chuckle at the thought of having the poor child to take home with him to his hut in the woods and he cried out now lady what is my name is it john asked she

you are all invited to come to our room and get acquainted with the other infants we're going to get as many together this evening as we can now do come oh ruth whispered helen

that came as it was wont to come the signal was given and the windlass stopped with abundant rope to spare apparently so long an interval ensued with the men at the windlass standing idle that some women shrieked that another accident had happened but the surgeon who held the watch

every other friday afternoon she has recitations

conquering her natural repulsion for such scenes and the crowds which usually watched them she had forced her way into the foremost rank of the narrow gallery which overlooked the hall of the revolutionary tribunal she heard the indictment

the frames of their buck saws were cherry red the blades blued steel and the fresh cut ends of the sticks poplar maple iron wood birch were marked with engraved rings of growth

after that he beat the cherry tree limb all to pieces over me the first blow struck me on the back of my neck and knocked me down his wife was looking on

working two kedge anchors until at two o'clock in the afternoon she tried in her turn to reach the constitution with her bow guns but in vain hull expected capture