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He determined to assume the name and dignity of king, to insist openly on his claim, and thenceforth to treat the opposite party as traitors and rebels to his lawful authority. His army was ordered to assemble in St. John's Fields, and great numbers of people surrounded them. They were asked whether they would have Henry of Lancaster for king.
"No, they won't; nothing in the least," said the bishop. "Dancing may be very well in its place," said Mrs. Proudie. "I have never objected to it myself; that is, for the laity," said the bishop. "But when people profess to assemble for higher objects," said Mrs. Proudie, "they ought to act up to their professions." "Otherwise they are no better than hypocrites," said the bishop.
At Quimper, and in the district of Léon, chairs used to be placed round the midsummer bonfire, that the souls of the dead might sit on them and warm themselves at the blaze. At Brest on this day thousands of people used to assemble on the ramparts towards evening and brandish lighted torches, which they swung in circles or flung by hundreds into the air.
Hush, Pan: was not that Hermes making the proclamation? Pan. I thought so. Her. Be it known to all men that we purpose on this seventh day of March to hold a court of justice, and Fortune defend the right! All litigant parties to assemble on Areopagus, where Justice will assign the juries and preside over the trials in person.
He thought of the dry cells he had first used. They were still wired together and in the cabin. Like a flash Charley coupled them to his instrument, but the cells were exhausted. He could get no spark from them. Again he sat down and thought. Suddenly he leaped to his feet. "The army truck!" he cried. "If he overlooked that, I'll beat him yet." He began to assemble tools and instruments.
Privation and great fatigue had chiselled the brown face where her great eyes shone.... Since then, I have had time to assemble the maps and compasses, and to fix forever the spot where, for the first time, I understood the beauty of Tanit-Zerga's eyes. There was a deep silence between us. It was she who broke it. "Night is coming. We must eat so as to leave as soon as possible."
The possessory princes were accordingly established in Dusseldorf with the consent of the provincial estates, in which place those bodies were wont to assemble. Here then was Spain in the person of Leopold quietly perched in the chief citadel of the country, while Protestantism in the shape of the possessory princes stood menacingly in the capital.
A launch came plunging through the swells, and the deck steward made his rounds requesting the passengers to assemble for medical examination. Kirk found the Cortlandts ahead of him. "What's coming off?" he inquired. "Vaccination," Cortlandt explained, briefly. "They are very particular about disease." His wife added: "This used to be the worst fever-spot in the world, you know.
Each soul wants so much room to expand that in a crowd it needs must wait for gaps through which to thrust a little craning piece of a head from time to time. So the only result of our endeavour to assemble is that we become unable to fill our joined hands, our outstretched arms, with this endless, fathomless expanse.
"With increased speed he flew to Newport, but not until the wedding-guests had begun to assemble. She was called by a servant into the kitchen, 'a person being there who wished to speak with her. A man in sailor's habit advanced and informed her that her husband had arrived in Boston, and requested him to inform her that he was on his way to Newport."
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