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Daily I have to pass through, well, something like the ordeal of the red-hot ploughshares and without the innocence, dear friend! But it's best that my girl should not have to be doing the same; though she would have the innocence. But she writhes under any shadow of a blot.
But I suppose one day or other when there are no longer any wild Highlanders to benefit by its tender mercies they will blot it from their records as levelling them with a nation of cannibals. The mummery, too, of exposing the senseless head they have not the wit to grace mine with a paper coronet; there would be some satire in that, Edward.
How could I be sure that the theft of the treaty had not already been discovered, and that the avalanche of ruin was not on its way to blot us for ever out of life and love?
Smivvle smilingly caressed his whiskers, and his bold, black eyes darted glances here and there, from Barnabas mending his pen to the table, from the table to the walls, to the ceiling, and from that altitude they dropped to the table again, and hovered there. "Sir," said Barnabas without looking up, "pray excuse the blot, the pen was a bad one; I am making another, as you see." Mr.
The traveller in his boots, where boots are things unknown, passes the muffled women with their silent gait, the picturesque ruffians with their swinging stride, and is unable to help feeling not at home and something of a blot on the landscape.
It stains backward through all the leaves we have turned over in the book of life, before its blot of tears and of blood is dry upon the page we are turning." For weeks after Abner had learned the secret of his birth, it seemed to him that this blighting, blackening misery which had laid low his pride, and killed every hope, permeated, not only all his past, but all his future.
Or must we, for a generation, hold the States we have subdued by military occupation? Must we make Territories of them, and blot out those malignant stars from our glorious and triumphant banner? In all seriousness, there seems but one solution to the problem; and it must be found, if at all, in the proposition already stated, that treason is an individual act.
The tendency of those horrible laws, the tendency of those frightful penalties, was to blot the idea of justice from the human soul. Now, I want to show you how perfectly every department of human knowledge, or rather of ignorance, was saturated with superstition. I will for a moment refer to the science of language.
So, the fishes would pity their comrades caught by the kingfisher, the birds those in the claws of the hawk every creature considering the fate that overtook its fellows, and which might befall itself the great blot in nature's plan. The poor cripple told me he was going into Juigalpa.
These things were not exaggerations, they were sober truths; and he held that the toleration of such a state of things was a discredit to humanity, and a foul blot upon the fame of civilised nations. It is refreshing to hear men speak the truth, and call things by their right names, in plain language like this! The House and the country were ripe for action. An animated debate followed.
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