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The King of Prussia took lodgings in the house of a miller, but spent only a part of each day in them, preferring the melancholy solitude of the neighboring hamlet of Piktupönen, where he and Hardenberg had last alighted. Alexander was now thirty years of age, sanguine, ambitious, impressionable, and mature in proportion to his years.
Sir George Soane has alighted within the last few minutes 'And knows nothing of them! my lady cried, clapping her hands in triumph. 'That is so, the landlord answered ominously. Then, turning to the bewildered attorney, 'For you, sir, he continued, 'if you have anything to say, be good enough to speak. On the face of it, this is a dirty trick you have played me. 'Trick? cried the attorney.
Sylvia looked around her with appreciation as she alighted. "I am going to like South Africa," she said, "I wonder!" said Ranger. He began to unbuckle the traces, and she went round to the other side and did the same. "Poor dears, they are hot!" she said. "Don't you do that!" said Ranger. She was tugging at the buckle. "Why not? I like doing it. I love horses, don't you?
He had to drive very slowly and with all caution, for the animal shied every other minute, and he felt heartily glad when they all alighted. Williams, who ran out from the stable, stood in astonishment at sight of the horse's condition. 'Rather fresh this morning, said Harvey, as the ladies went in. 'Mrs Rolfe had a little trouble with her.
So the Minister alighted and fared on a foot till he came to a lofty saloon, at whose upper end stood a marble couch, set with pearls and stones of price, and having for legs four elephant's tusks.
I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called the Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept close to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree.
In the instant, while he towered, poised in the air, Mose shook his right foot free of the stirrup and swung to the left and alighted on his feet, while the fallen horse, stunned by his own fall, lay for an instant, groaning and coughing.
It was then I saw that he had merely wished to attract the attention of some one passing in a cab. Half a block down the boulevard I saw a man likewise waving excitedly, standing erect in the cab to do so. The cab thereupon turned sharply, came back on the opposite side of the street, crossed over to us, and the occupant alighted.
His Majesty alighted at the chateau, where his lodging was prepared, and the officers of his household had preceded him.
Oliver happened to be whistling while stopping to look about him, when, greatly to his surprise and that of his companions, a flock of small birds came down and alighted on the branches close to their heads. "Stop," said Vaughan; "we must not frighten them, and see what they will do."
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