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These instances should, however, throw considerable doubt upon the proposition that the constitutional rights of the people are safe in the hands of the legislative department without the check of the judiciary.
Here were two windows of like material; and besides the mats, the floor was covered with a thick felt, on which they spread their beds at night. A table was provided, covered with a coarse blue and white check. There were also a set of coarse plates and a, few other dishes, but no knives nor forks. They eat their soup with wooden spoons, and their other food with their hands.
Ferdinand of Brunswick, with his division, had been sent off to check, if possible, the movements of the French army under Richelieu, near Magdeburg. In October came the startling news that Berlin itself was threatened, and that a force, said to be fifteen thousand strong, under General Haddick, was in rapid motion towards it.
The squire cast his gouty leg to be quit of his horse, but not in time to check my father's advances and ejaculations of condolence. 'Gout, Mr. Beltham, is a little too much a proof to us of a long line of ancestry.
At these words a truce of silence came between the pair; the mother's blighted eyes rained tears which Modeste could not check, though she threw herself upon her knees, and cried: "Forgive me! oh, forgive me, mother!" At this instant the excellent Dumay was coming up the hill of Ingouville on the double-quick, a fact quite abnormal in the present life of the cashier.
I hear that the juniors are going to give a dance, but I don't think they will make any large amount like this, because they will have to pay for music and refreshments." Grace could not help feeling proud of the success of the bazaar now that the judge's check had arrived, although at first she had demurred about accepting it.
He could do what he pleased: there was no power to check him; such had been the nature of his arrangements an leaving France. He followed only the dictates of his own will, and probably, had not the fleet been destroyed; he would have departed from Egypt much sooner. To will and to do were with him one and the same thing.
"It's even better than forty per cent. per annum," remarked the magistrate, as he folded up the check he had received. "How so?" "You make over fifty-five per cent." "Indeed!" "Yes look at it. You have just paid one hundred and sixty dollars for what will yield you two hundred and six dollars in six months, for you must remember that you will get legal interest on the claim you have bought.
Though the Transcontinental had published "The Ring of Bells," no check was forthcoming. Martin needed it, and he wrote for it. An evasive answer and a request for more of his work was all he received. He had gone hungry two days waiting for the reply, and it was then that he put his wheel back in pawn.
He had no deep faith that he could quite civilise them; he knew that their conversion was only on the surface, and he fell back on his personal influence with them. By this he could check even the excesses of the worst man in the tribe, his old enemy, Silver Tassel of the bad heart, who yet was ready always to give a tooth for a tooth, and accepted the fact that he owed Oshondonto his life.
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