he soon distinguished her voice from the others at first by a slightly foreign accent and next by that tone of domination naturally impressed upon all royal words he heard her approach and withdraw from the partially open door

may dispense entirely with any protection i find in short that the risk of being stung is really diminished by the use of my hives

i forgot to have luncheon to day and your tea has given me a keen anticipation for dinner my zest would be embarrassing to you and past my control besides i shall take a half mile walk to night lucky becky then come again soon max dear she said

and the two other buffers each buffer with a flower in his button hole his hair curled and his gloves buttoned on tight apparently come prepared

to accept your kind invitation for nowhere in the land of oz could i hope to meet with so congenial a company that is true acknowledged the pumpkinhead we are quite as congenial as flies and honey

for two successive lengths of duration however measured can never be demonstrated to be equal the motion of the sun which the world used so long and so confidently for an exact measure of duration has as i said been found in its several parts unequal

we won through at ten p m and i write after twelve hours on the march i think we are on or about the right track now but we are still a good number of miles from the depot so we reduced rations to night

no modern composer can produce airs of a similar kind to equal them the irish musicians had various styles three of which are very often mentioned in tales and other ancient irish writings of these numerous specimens have come down to the present day

they might be wandering yet lost within the labyrinthine tunnel if not dead from starvation i was now still further apprehensive as to the fate of dian and at this time

as coolly as if no danger threatened his throne but the pumpkinhead having caught sight of tip ambled toward the boy as fast as his wooden legs would go good afternoon noble parent he cried delightedly

for the first time in history women came together to organize their political power into a party to free their own sex for the first time in history representatives of men's political parties came to plead before these women voters

the first i had ever known her to receive in which he said he had been thrown from his horse and had broken his left arm it had happened the very morning miriam received her message

and when i lifted my arms sometimes they would pass above the surface of the sea then the level of the oysterbank would lower unpredictably often we went around tall pointed rocks rising like pyramids

when your father's run away and your mother goes out washing and you're only old enough to get fifty cents a week you can't give much to the heathen but i'll do the best i can my aunt jane was fond of missions

the lamps are dying in your homes the fruits upon your bough even now your old thatch smoulders gurth now is the judgment of the earth now is the death grip now for thunder of the captain not less the wessex line

nor had he any fear of an end coming to it for he knew that his treasure was inexhaustible he made friends with the princes and nobles of the land from far and wide people came to visit him

that you should be selling drink the other stared at him gee he said are you going to take me up in your airship mister finnegan said the boy i wish you wouldn't make fun of me

a long cold miserable march it was too

but upon second thought held her peace she soon gathered that major lackland's memoranda seemed to refer to letters which had passed between himself and judge hawkins she shaped her course without difficulty the day that that hint reached her

the general knew too that the way to strengthen hampton was to make it a centre of unselfish power in the working out of the whole southern problem

following each stream to its source and studying every ruined tower or castle from foundation stone to topmost battlement

flared out monstrous letters of fire telling in esperanto and english the message for which england had grown sick he read it a dozen times before he moved staring

i have no language to express the high excitement and deep anxiety which were felt among us poor slaves during this time our fate for life was now to be decided we had no more voice in that decision than the brutes among whom we were ranked

far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand i did not even trust my own impressions but it rests partly on what i saw myself partly on what others saw for me the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible

into this field during the absence of jimmy scarecrow and therefrom purloin steal or abstract corn shall be instantly in a twinkling and a trice turned snow white and be ever after a disgrace a byword and a reproach to his whole race

steeped in arrack and think it agrees with me

many supposed that that noble ship disabled by the battle had gone to the bottom in the subsequent tempestuous weather and the belief was persevered in till it was told in the town and port that she had been seen passing up the channel

and when you have heard me out you will see if you dare refuse me your daughter i am listening torres well said the adventurer half keeping back his words as if he was sorry to let them escape from his lips

what was it no one put the inquiry her father did not notice anything odd in her look much less calhoun who was himself markedly labouring to conceal some disagreeable thought under the guise of an assumed naivete

is the most noted of those very few instances from which the enemies of this prince have endeavored to load him with the imputation of insincerity and have inferred that the parliament could repose no confidence in his professions and declarations not even in his laws and statutes

and selecting the sheep for them at the present moment he was engaged in handing round a mug of mild liquor supplied from a barrel in the corner and cut pieces of bread and cheese

where he cleaned his ship and waited for the season to go into the red sea his provisions being taken in the time proper and the ship well fitted he steered for babel mandeb and running into a harbor waited for the mocha ships

we took our next objection when the confessions were produced in evidence we declared that they had been extorted by terror or by undue influence and we pointed out certain minor particulars in which the two confessions failed to corroborate each other

made in the night of ages to last and be transmitted

the whirlpool forced her against a low rock upon this the men scrambled out saving their lives

and rightly he said rightly comrade jarvis she is not unworthy of your affection

have even had the heart to degrade this first preacher of the mountain the purest hero of liberty for unable to deny that he was earth's greatest man they have made of him heaven's smallest god

brown fur short and coarse and large floppy feet it had a voice like a steam siren and its name was rosamund the king and queen were both devoted to it she because it was a cat

duty of any kind respectfully answered the young daughter of mar cannot be transgressed with innocence nor would it be any relinquishing of duty to you should my father leave you to take up arms in the assertion of his country's rights

one has heard so many dreadful stories of indian fights and massacres that i tremble a little at the prospect but i do not mention this to john for as other women are

she had had an establishment of her own very early in life her father was an old unmarried professor of mathematics a brutal man and a braggart who went out to give lessons in spite of his age this professor when he was a young man