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I was sorry, but I didn't choose to say so, as she seemed to expect me; so says I, 'It's a pity to see children brought up to care for things of the flesh; and then I could have bitten my tongue out, for the missus looked so grave, and I thought of my darling little lad pining for want of his food.
They seem to have bitten me till I had a devouring hunger to humiliate them. Lena, will you believe that I have no hate for Carlo Ammiani or the woman he has married? None! and yet, what have I done!" Anna smote her forehead. "They are nothing but little dots on a field for me. I don't care whether they live or die. It's like a thing done in sleep."
Though Evan answered cheerfully, 'Oh, they will wait, and I can live on anything, he was nevertheless floundering on the ground amid the ruins of the superb edifice; and his mother, upright and rigid, continuing, 'You can live on anything, and they will wait, and call your father a rogue, he started, grievously bitten by one of the serpents of earth. 'Good heaven, mother! what are you saying?
It is a well-established fact, that men, when bitten by dogs, are generally wounded in some part protected by their clothing, which guards them from the deleterious effects of the saliva which covers the teeth, and which, at such times, is deadly poison.
But she swept thee clean away like a straw in a flood, and thou art lost. Thou hast been playing unaware with a queen-cobra, that has smitten thy soul with the poisonous fascination of its magnificent hood and its deadly eyes, and bitten thy heart with its venomed fang; and now all remedies are worse than useless, and come too late.
It takes a deal to turn a mother's heart against the sons she has nursed upon her knees; and many is the time I have winked and wouldn't see too much, and bitten my tongue, lest their father should know them as I do; he would have put them to the door that moment. But now they have filled the cup too full. And where got ye all this money? For this last month you have been rolling in it.
The beavers had done their work, the barrier was bitten through and through, the salt water rushed like a river through the ruptured dyke. A few moments later, and a Zeeland barge, freighted with provisions, floated triumphantly into the waters beyond, now no longer an inland sea. The deed was done the victory achieved.
We found the oxen ready for us; but if we looked wretched, the animals were a match. They had been bitten by the flies, thousands of which were at this spot. Their coats were staring, ears drooping, noses running, and heads hanging down all the symptoms of fly-bite, together with extreme looseness of the bowels. I saw that it was all up with our animals.
He was bitten by a dog, and he died ... raving mad." "Bitten by a dog?" he queried. "Do you not remember? The dog you brought with you bit him. He never recovered. And ... and he died mad." "It was my dog that bit him? And he died mad in consequence of that bite? I do not understand. My dog is alive and well; he was never mad." Her eyes fell. What need to plead further!
'French prisoners are very well in their place, she said, 'but I cannot see that their place is in my private dining-room. At this, to my relief, I thought I could perceive a vestige of a smile to steal upon that iron countenance and to be bitten immediately in. 'And if it is a fair question, what do they call ye? she asked. 'At your service, the Vicomte Anne de St.-Yves, said I.
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