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Guarantees, he said, were mere filigree, pretty to look at, but too brittle to bear the slightest pressure. He thought it his safest course to ally himself closely to France, and again to attack the Empress Queen. It was now that, for the first time, he experienced the inconstancy of fortune. An Austrian army under Charles of Lorraine threatened his communications with Silesia.
It had shocked him, too, when he had felt for the first time beneath his tremulous fingers the brittle texture of a woman's stocking for, retaining nothing of all he read save that which seemed to him an echo or a prophecy of his own state, it was only amid soft-worded phrases or within rose-soft stuffs that he dared to conceive of the soul or body of a woman moving with tender life.
Australians they must be this time of year. Shiny peels: polishes them up with a rag or a handkerchief. Wait. Those poor birds. He halted again and bought from the old applewoman two Banbury cakes for a penny and broke the brittle paste and threw its fragments down into the Liffey. See that? The gulls swooped silently, two, then all from their heights, pouncing on prey. Gone. Every morsel.
Instantly, from the house where they had been stowing away stores, first Davis, and then the ragamuffin, swarthy crew made their appearance. "Hullo, Hay, that you?" said the captain, leaning on the rail. "Tell the old man to lay her alongside, as if she was eggs. There's a hell of a run of sea here, and his boat's brittle." The movement of the schooner was at that time more than usually violent.
"Why do I mention these trivial occurrences?" not, Heaven knows, from the interest I can now attach to them but because, like a drowning man who catches at a brittle twig, I seize every apology for delaying the subsequent and dreadful part of my narrative. But, it must be communicated I must have the sympathy of at least one friend under this heart-rending calamity.
Cracks of long standing usually have thick, rough margins. The causes of this unsoundness are poor quality of horn, improper care and injuries. Sand-cracks commonly occur in hoofs that are dry and brittle and have thin walls. In young horses incomplete cracks due to the wall becoming long and breaking off in large pieces are common.
"Nay; the proof that he did not love is that she is still alive I will not leave her living for anybody else, if she is not wholly mine." Montes was terrible to behold. He bellowed, he stormed; he broke everything he touched; rosewood was as brittle as glass. "How he destroys things!" said Carabine, looking at the old woman.
In fact, now that I look back at it, he was a good deal like you in more ways than one; looked as if time had hardened him without making him brittle. He came to me and said: 'Excuse me, son, but you look sort of familiar to me. Mind telling me who your mother was? What could I answer to a " A shadow fell across Anthony from the rising height of his father.
Those high-prized friends who share your mirth Are counterfeits of brittle earth, False coin'd in Death's alloy! The bliss your notes could once inspire, When lightly o'er the god-like lyre Your nimble fingers pass'd, Shall spring the same from others' skill When you're forgot, the music still The player shall outlast!
Children, they are very little, And their bones are very brittle. Luckily their little brittle bones quickly solder, and it did not take me long to recover from the effects of this mishap. No doubt my canine steed was as much troubled as any one at the accident.
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