United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The doors of the Kingdom of Heroism were flung so wide that the meanest might enter in, and in that act the humblest became comrades of Drake's men, who could jest as they died. No one knows his real strength till it is put to the test; the highest joy of life is to discover that the soul can meet the test, and survive it.
The schooner presently passed between the headlands, and then into the open sea. She did not change her course until she was eight or ten miles from land, when she turned northward. As soon as the schooner was out of range Ned and his comrades stood up on the deck, and looked back at the long low coastline, which had offered to them so much danger.
On the march he invariably shared: anything that he possessed fraternally with his comrades, helping those who were weaker than himself to carry their burdens, and, at once priest and soldier, sustaining them by his words when he was powerless to do anything more.
Finding my friend so communicative and apparently so experienced in the various branches of his profession, I took advantage of every convenient opportunity to ascertain from him the meaning of the slang terms which my comrades made use of when conversing together, but through ignorance of which I was often unable to understand exactly what they were talking about.
Noyes that they and their comrades were completely overwhelmed by the attentions of the good people of Harrisburg, that the ladies brought them fruits and flowers, and smiles, better than either, and that the little boys of the place were almost fighting for the privilege of doing their errands.
Perhaps I may find some of your late comrades when we make the island, who will stand witness against you. That will do, my man, you may go. "But you don't know where the island is," said Surly Dick, anxiously, as the lieutenant was turning away.
If he could only hold the outlaws in the valley for a quarter of an hour more just fifteen short minutes they would almost have reached the entrance into the chasm. Alone, with his own life and those of his comrades depending upon him, the boy was cool.
So on the last leaf of the Pilgrim's Progress I entered the strength of each battalion, and noted each gun as the great army wound its way into Tammames below us, and through it for the cross-roads beyond, but not in one body, for two of the battalions enjoyed an hour's halt there before setting forward after their comrades, by this time out of sight. They had taken the northern road.
But the Esquimaux had much too lively a dread of the Indians to venture away from the coast, and seemed inclined to hang about the place in comparative idleness much longer than was desirable. A day or two after the successful deer-hunt above related, several bands of Esquimaux arrived at Fort Chimo, and encamped beside their comrades.
Many and brave comrades followed the son of Telamon, to relieve him of his shield when he was overcome with sweat and toil, but the Locrians did not follow so close after the son of Oileus, for they could not hold their own in a hand-to-hand fight.
Word Of The Day