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Had you not given utterance to those impenitent expressions, the court would have been anxious to deal mercifully with you. "Here the prisoner fell into strong hysterics, and was taken away in a state of insensibility from the dock. "Now," proceeded Coke, closing the ponderous tome, "I read this case from a feeling that it bears very strongly upon that before us.
That I was pursuing them, while in the mercantile establishment to which I had gone, he did not believe; and very frequently when I was at his house for I visited the family, and sometimes, though unfrequently, dined with them on a sabbath he jeered me on my progress the "wonderful progress," as he was pleased to term it which he felt sure I was making with my Coke and Blackstone, while baling blankets, or bundling up plains and kerseys.
The man hoarsely explained, himself interested by the disclosures and fraternity around him: "I was slave to a local preacher in Delaware, an' de sexton of de church. It was ole Barrett's chapel, up yer between Dover an' Murderkill de church whar Bishop Coke an' Francis Asbury fust met on de pulpit stairs.
Other forms of carbon which are well-known are coke, the residue left when coal has been subjected to a great heat in a closed retort, but from which all the bye-products of coal have been allowed to escape; soot and lamp-black, the former of which is useful as a manure in consequence of ammonia being present in it, whilst the latter is a specially prepared soot, and is used in the manufacture of Indian ink and printers' ink.
During the night the enemy's fire could not have been formidable, and ... it would not have taken more than two or three hours at most to communicate by messenger with General Coke or Sir C. Warren, and to receive a reply.
Prulliere had drawn near the hearth opposite the console table, where a coke fire was blazing and two more gas jets were flaring brightly. He lifted his eyes and looked at the clock and the barometer on his right hand and on his left. They had gilded sphinxes by way of adornment in the style of the First Empire.
"Use our heads," put in Hozier. He had not the slightest intention of making a light-hearted joke at that crisis in their affairs, but he happened to look at Coke, and an involuntary smile gleamed through the crust of clotted blood and perspiration that gave his good-looking face a most sinister aspect. The Irishman cackled with laughter.
Each had some kind of a deep knowledge that their aspirations, far from colliding, were of such character that the success of one would mean at least assistance to the other, but neither could see how to confess if. Pethapt it was from shame, perhaps it was because Nora thought Coke to have little wit ; perhaps it was because Coke thought Nora to have little conscience.
The conceit was a more ponderous one than that of Raleigh's cloak bricks and mortar versus velvet. A greater than Gresham succeeded, after the death of his widow, to the occupancy of Osterley Chief-justice Coke. His compliment to Elizabeth on the occasion of a similar visit to the same house took the more available and acceptable shape of ten or twelve hundred pounds sterling in jewelry.
They let their land, and so do you, to the highest bidder, not for honor or any romantic sentiment, but for money, and that is trade. Mr. Bartley is his own farmer; well, so was Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, and the Queen made him a peer for it what a sensible sovereign! Are Rothschild and Montefiore shunned for their speculations by the nobility? Whom do their daughters marry?
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