United States or Niger ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Hendricks sent in all directions to look for you; and when the body of poor Gozo was found, it was feared that you had met with the same fate. He was so dreadfully cut up, that I thought he would have abandoned his expedition and gone back to Maritzburg." "I am sorry to have caused the fine old boy so much trouble," answered Denis.
Then was a touching display of confusion and excitement. Men and squaws commenced squalling like children the whites were bad, very bad, said they, in their grief, to give Susu-Ceicha the fire-water that caused his death. But the height of their censure was directed against the American Fur Company, as its liquor had done the deed.
"It was certainly caused by a pointed weapon some sort of a spiked weapon?" suggested Mr. Lindsey. "A sharp, pointed weapon, most certainly," affirmed the doctor. "There are other things than a salmon gaff that, in your opinion, could have caused it?" "Oh, of course!" said the doctor. Mr. Lindsey paused a moment, and looked round the court as if he were thinking over his next question.
Nevertheless, when one says that goodness alone determined God to create this universe, it is well to add that his GOODNESS prompted him antecedently to create and to produce all possible good; but that his WISDOM made the choice and caused him to select the best consequently; and finally that his POWER gave him the means to carry out actually the great design which he had formed.
The evil caused by whisky is apparent to all, but custom requires that friends should be honoured by being offered whisky, business should be transacted over whisky, and the general saying is that without whisky nothing can be done. A farmer, for example, adding a few rooms to his buildings must supply his masons and joiners with whisky. Thus in universal use, the quantity consumed is immense.
A panic arose, caused by the sight of an approaching cloud of camp-followers on the Gillie's hill; Edward fled, and hundreds of noble prisoners, with all the waggons and supplies of England, fell into the hands of the Scots.
He seemed suddenly struck with an awful thought, which caused a momentary pallescence in his rosy complexion; and after a brief hesitation, he turned his galloway, and told his companions he should give them good day. "Why, what is in the wind now, brother Peter?" said Friar Michael. "The lady Matilda," said the little friar, "can draw the long-bow.
At length she said: "Courtly invisible, why are you not the person I desire you should be?" At these words, Leander was going to declare himself, but durst not do it yet; "For," thought he, "if I again affright the object I adore, and make her fear me, she will not love me." This consideration caused him to keep silence.
The whole cemetery was alive, and hundreds of corpses had stretched out their skeleton arms towards him, moaning and wailing that even in their graves they could not get over the torture caused by his essences and electuaries.
He had been to sea, and was then in New York, at which port his vessel had just arrived. He wrote in a gay strain; appear'd to have lost the angry feeling which caused his flight from home; and said he heard in the city that Richard had married, and settled several miles distant, where he wished him all good luck and happiness.
Word Of The Day