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That peculiar modern survival of the ancient trial by combat, the duel, was still blocking the way of English civilisation when Her Majesty assumed the sceptre.
He found the stable and, exactly at the place which it occupied two months before, near its swinging manger, the mule blocking the way to the staircase.
The blocking ships and the Vindictive were especially prepared for their work long before the start. Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes devoted personal attention and time to working out the plan of operations and the preparation of the personnel and material.
The room in which the Tribunal sat was crammed, and there were multitudes sitting on the stairs, standing in the corridors, filling the neighbouring courts, blocking the streets and lanes.
You look all wrought up," said Sheffield, holding the door half open, and blocking, with his lean form, entrance to the room. "May I come in? I want to talk to you," said Andrews. "Oh, I suppose it'll be all right.... You see I have an officer with me..." then there was a flutter in Sheffield's voice. "Oh, do come in"; he went on, with sudden enthusiasm.
So, while the night grew every moment wetter and darker, the men sat on their kit-bags or found such shelter as they could in the tiny station, or in the lee of the "goods trains" blocking the railroad tracks, growing more indignant and more disgusted with the British high command, the war in general, and registering with increasing intensity vows of vengeance against the Kaiser, who, in the last analysis, they considered responsible for their misery.
I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word without a warning or explanation moved me from where I was standing to another spot and passed by as though he had not noticed me. I could have forgiven blows, but I could not forgive his having moved me without noticing me.
Behind followed the rest of the army battalion after battalion, brigade after brigade until all, swallowed up by the maze of mud houses, were filling the open spaces and blocking and choking the streets and alleys with solid masses of armed men, who marched or pushed their way up to the great wall.
A Danish fleet lay in the Skagerak, blocking his way of reënforcements by sea. It was so well shielded there that its commander sent word to the King to rest easy; nothing could happen to him. He would join him presently. Tordenskjold saw that if he could capture or destroy this fleet Norway was saved; the siege must perforce be abandoned.
Great preparations there are to fortify Sheernesse and the yard at Portsmouth, and forces are drawing down to both those places, and elsewhere by the seaside; so that we have some fear of an invasion; and the Duke of York himself did declare his expectation of the enemy's blocking us up here in the River, and therefore directed that we should send away all the ships that we have to fit out hence.
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