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Although flying from flower to flower in search of food, its stomach generally contained abundant remains of insects, which I suspect are much more the object of its search than honey. The note of this species, like that of nearly the whole family, is extremely shrill. Chiloe. General Aspect. Boat excursion. Native Indians. Castro. Tame fox. Ascend San Pedro. Chonos Archipelago.
When it was the Four Hundred and Thirty-ninth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the damsel continued, "The understanding is of two kinds, natural and acquired. He rejoined, "Thou hast answered well." Q "Where is the seat of the understanding?" "Allah casteth it in the heart whence its lustrous beams ascend to the brain and there become fixed."
When he had fairly gone, the thoughtful savant surveyed the different tourists who were preparing to ascend the Pyramids under the escort of their Arab guides, regardless of the risks they ran of dislocated arms and broken shoulder-bones, and in the study of the various odd types thus presented to him, he found himself fairly well amused. "Protoplasm mere protoplasm!" he murmured.
Do you ascend, Monsieur Felix." The young man drew back. He was not without courage, or experience of rough scenes. But the Louvre was close at hand, almost within earshot on one side, the Châtelet was scarcely farther off on the other; and both swarmed with soldiers and the armed scourings of the streets.
Before starting, it is, however, advisable to climb the rock to which the locks ascend. A pavilion is erected on its summit, and the view from it down over all the locks is exceedingly fine.
All around us the plains seemed to ascend to the sky, and the vast and profound solitude appeared like an ocean covered with sea-weed.
The chief street of Gladstonopolis, running through the centre of the city, descends a hill to the level of the harbour. As the vessel came in we began to ascend the hill, but the horses progressed very slowly. Crasweller sat perfectly speechless by my side. I went on with a forced smile upon my face, speaking occasionally to this or the other neighbour as we met them.
Then it came to a sudden halt, and the prince at once got down and flung the bridle on his horse's neck. He paused for a moment and looked round him at the masses of black stones with which the sides of the mountain were covered, and then began resolutely to ascend. He had hardly gone four steps when he heard the sound of voices around him, although not another creature was in sight.
"Oh, Miss Ray," he bawled, "come up on the bridge and I'll show you the chart. Bring the lieutenant." For an instant she hesitated, reluctant. Not even the staff of the commanding officer had set foot on that sacred perch since the voyage began, only when especially bidden or at boat or fire drill did that magnate himself presume to ascend those stairs.
And then Augustus could ascend to power; glory had reached its climax; millions of gold were waiting to be filched from the depths of the provinces; and the imperial gala was to begin in the world's capital, before the eyes of the dazzled and subjected nations.
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