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It was here very broad, but quite bare, except a belt of polygonum growing on either side, which had been set on fire, and was now in flames. We were fortunate enough soon after to find a long shallow sheet of water, in the bed of the creek, where we rested ourselves.
Though over all the world, where the shore is washed bare by the sea, examples are to be found which require but to be seen to give compleat conviction, it is not in every place that the eye of a naturalist has been employed in taking this view of the coast; nor is it upon every occasion that enlightened philosophers of this kind have given their thoughts upon the subject.
The sepulchral vault was the abode of the Soul, as the funerary chapel was the abode of the Double. Up to the time of the Sixth Dynasty, the walls of the vault are left bare. In 1881, I however discovered some tombs at Sakkarah, in which the vault is decorated in preference to the chapel.
Some years later it was ordained that only women of loose life should be permitted to bare their shoulders; and all dressmakers who furnished the interdicted gowns to others than courtesans were condemned to four years' penal servitude.
Her arms and neck were bare, as were also her feet; and it was clear that she put forth to her work as much strength as usually falls to the lot of a woman in any country. She was very fair to look at, but there was about her no feminine softness.
She would fix up the desolate old house, she thought; the bare windows which now so stared her in the face should be shaded with pretty muslin curtains, and she would loop them back with ribbons.
The sides of the valley were now narrowing in again, and becoming much steeper; the trees had ceased, and the bare rock rose in some places almost precipitously. "The water rises high here when there is a storm," Zeke said. "You see, it is pretty nigh closed up somewhere in front here." "All the better," Dave said; "we can make a fight for it in a place like that, and hold it till dark.
Jack lighted a cigarette and blew the smoke out of the open window while the little train bore him down through the green forest into the valley. He was in a new world. He was safe here he was lost. Writing his name on the hotel register was an embarrassing ceremony that had not occurred to Jack until he walked up the steps and into the bare little office.
"Forgive me if I do not think highly, in general, of Italian honour, or Italian valour; your valour I acknowledge, for I have witnessed it, and valour and honour go together, let that suffice!" As Adrian was about to answer, his eye fell suddenly on the burly form of Cecco del Vecchio, who was leaning his bare and brawny arms over his anvil, and gazing, with a smile, upon the group.
At any time, however, when you find a piece of reasoning in this condensed form, whether your own or some one else's, which seems to you suspicious, if you expand it into a full syllogism you will have all its parts laid bare for scrutiny.
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