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Towards the close of 1560 they were quartered in Walcheren and Brill. The Zelanders, however, had become so exasperated by their presence that they resolutely refused to lay a single hand upon the dykes, which, as usual at that season, required great repairs. Rather than see their native soil profaned any longer by these hated foreign mercenaries, they would see it sunk forever in the ocean.
This was illustrated, among other instances, by the cruel fate of Uitenhoove. That unfortunate nobleman, who had been taken prisoner in the course of the summer, was accused of having been engaged in the capture of Brill, and was, therefore, condemned by the Duke to be roasted to death before a slow fire.
London was in arms; and Brill remembered its repulse of Hampden's regiment with a proud consciousness of being invincible. The Dutch fleet saved Angela many a paternal lecture; for Sir John rode post-haste towards London, and did not return until the end of the month.
Freely translated, "the traveller talks to himself to keep up his courage on the road." His works were not published till long after his death, in 1665. Compare again, Fra Lippo Lippi, vs. 215 et seq. Jacques Callot was an eminent French artist of the XVII century, born at Nancy in 1592, died 1635. Matthaeus and Paul Brill were two celebrated Dutch painters.
"I understand your intentions are good, but I've noticed that sometimes expectation outruns performance," his prisoner came back promptly. "Not this time, I think." Phyllis understood that Brill was threatening the nester and that the latter was defying him lightly, but what either meant precisely she did not know. She proceeded to business without a word except the necessary directions to Becky.
It's come to them recent just what a bad lot Lang is. It's hell what a whisper can do." "It is when that whisper is backed by a thousand-dollar reward," Carson agreed. "If he really pays up it'll wreck Lang's little snap for sure." Brill dabbed his cloth at an imaginary spot on the polished slab and nodded without comment.
"I wouldn't hurt your feelings for a million warts." "There is the carriage for Brill," said Sam, pointing it out. "Are you going with me?" asked the dude. "No. We are not going back until this evening," explained Dick. "We'll see you later." "Only one other student going with you," added Tom mischievously. "He's kind of queer, but I guess he won't hurt you."
One thunderbolt after another seemed descending around him in breathless succession. Brill and Flushing had been already lost; Middelburg was so closely invested that its fall seemed imminent, and with it would go the whole island of Walcheren, the key to all the Netherlands.
A fleet of forty or fifty merchantmen sailed under their convoy. Departing from the Brill in this imposing manner, they sailed by Calais, varying the monotony of the voyage by a trifling sea-fight with some cruisers from that Spanish port, neither side receiving any damage.
A convention of doctors and bishops of France; summoned by the Duc de Montpensier, afterwards confirmed the opinion that the conventual vows of the Princess Charlotte had been conformable neither to the laws of France nor to the canons of the Trent Council. She was conducted to Brill by Saint Aldegonde, where she was received by her bridegroom, to whom she was united on the 12th of June.
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