a four pound rifled piece which was specially made to my order by an eminent firm it was a most beautiful little weapon exquisitely finished was a breech loader and threw a solid shot about a mile and a shell nearly half as far again

that we're booked for a reg'lar thorough bred cape horn gale of wind and my advice as chief mate of this here barkie is that we makes her just as snug as we knows how for depend upon it afore morning

and he was very witty regarding the number of scotchmen whom lord minto the governor general patronised and then he described a tiger hunt and the manner in which the mahout of his elephant had been pulled off his seat by one of the infuriated animals

the expenses of war weighed less heavily upon the serf than upon the freeman and as for legal protection the seigniorial court where the serf was judged by his peers was far preferable to the cantonal assembly

as wizards there are always mysteries in life

intimately as miss garth was acquainted with this peculiarity in her pupil she now saw it asserting itself for the first time in association with mental exertion of any kind on magdalen's part

and in fact we ought unwearyingly to repeat to ourselves that at such and such a time and in such and such circumstances nature does not ask our leave that we have got to take her as she is and not fashion her to suit our fancy

heaven and earth under its guidance unite together and send down the sweet dew which without the directions of men reaches equally everywhere as of its own accord

written on a really living person sir john oldcastle who had been the friend of some duke this oldcastle had once been convicted of heresy but had been saved by his friend the duke but afterward he was condemned and burned at the stake for his religious beliefs

looking very meek and satisfied leslie carried a small package which she laid in julia cloud's lap you said you needed a hand bag she said and i came on a place where they were having a sale i thought this was a peach so i bought it

she never tells you it's your own fault and she hopes you'll be a better girl on account of it missus lynde always told me that when she came to see me and she said it in a kind of way that made me feel she might hope i'd be a better girl but didn't really believe i would even josie pye came to see me

no he makes the best of it and as merrily as he can as he can i grant you said wingfold here missus ramshorn woke

no you may not as if i hadn't known it all along and wasn't it hard to bear that you should have scolded me with such pertinacious austerity

and her companions had been for some time silent from the same cause when this general reverie was interrupted by the entrance of a stranger monsieur bonnac who had just quitted the chamber of sister agnes

a confused recollection of having heard the words and tune sung by my mother when i was at the rocking age myself brought the tears to my eyes as i flew to the window and parted the curtains

king mark made his nephew give him a minute recital of his adventures tristram told him all minutely but when he came to speak of the fair isoude he described her charms with a warmth and energy such as none but a lover could display

defarge went back to the counter and said certainly a little like madame sternly retorted i tell you a good deal like jacques three pacifically remarked

his enthusiasm would seem the cause for his carelessness as they crossed broadway he came face to face with a new problem in the blaze of the electric lights he saw lizzie connolly and her giggly friend

to have a respite before the graver discussion began

and upon a certain day joseph took his wife and three children and nanny and jim

held mona somewhat tighter than he need to have done and let the horse go so long as sunfish had footing he braced himself against the mad rush of waters and forged ahead

for why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money how for instance is it worse than trade true out of a hundred persons only one can win yet what business is that of yours or of mine

when my wife mortgaged my little property she'd only let me look at it from a distance boasting of it to me it was a very thick bundle all rainbow colored notes and dmitri fyodorovitch's were all rainbow colored he was not kept long

and when the man came back and asked what was the matter with his finger the lad said he'd given it such a bad cut but the man tore off the rag and then he soon saw what was the matter with the finger

it made no difference however as to getting a communication to tip the table without apparent muscular exertion this impostor placed his hands on it in such a way that the pisiform bone which may be felt projecting at the lower corner of the palm opposite the thumb

and bade them wake the stranger gently and they woke him and he sat up and saw many snakes all round him and one of them very beautiful decked in royal robes who are you asked hassebu

chapter twenty found and now i come to perhaps the strangest adventure that happened to us in all this strange business

some people say that you're just a rather original politician he roared with laughter that's what fred sloane told me to day i suppose i have it coming one afternoon they dipped into a subject that had interested amory for a long time

she told the robber that the next time the prince went to bathe in the river he was to steal the sword from its place above the bed for without it the young man would have no power to punish him for his boldness

i remember exactly how he strode into our kitchen in his felt boots and long wolfskin coat his eyes and cheeks bright with the cold at sight of grandmother he snatched off his fur cap greeting her in a deep rolling voice which seemed older than he

it is much easier and much more pleasant to give oneself passively to that delusion of grandeur that delusion that pleasantly drugs the mind with the assumption that there is a supreme being who is personally interested in our well being

having first performed an incision between the bone and the sinews with the couteau de chasse according to colonial usage cumming's life in south africa

and come rather to the natural heresies that spring from fundamental weaknesses of the human character and which are common to all religions against these it is necessary to keep constant watch they return very insidiously

in those old days the average man called his children after his most revered literary and historical idols consequently there was hardly a family at least in the west but had a washington in it and also a lafayette

a kingdom which may be called a kingdom of ends since what these laws have in view is just the relation of these beings to one another as ends and means it is certainly only an ideal

and yet they get something out of their reading missus crump is always poring over the revelations and nearly knows them by heart i don't think she could interpret a single image but she has a hazy misty idea of the truth that's why she likes it

and ceases neither for effort nor for agony

they are variously wrought and some of them having the form of men must have been idols near the walls are many caves and excavations under the earth but in another place farther west are other and greater monuments such as large gate ways with hinges

i was giving him three quarter grains of morphia a day that friday night at eleven p m i visited him and found clodagh there talking to him peters was smoking a cigar ah clodagh said i was waiting for you adam

kit carson colorado territory october eighteen seventy one

and though we could conceive how the sounds of the voice came to be taken for the conventional interpreters of our ideas we should not be the nearer knowing who could have been the interpreters of this convention for such ideas as in consequence of their not having any sensible objects