United States or Åland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
These things, and the approach of night, called us off, or else, as Friday would have had us, we should certainly have taken the skin of this monstrous creature off, which was worth saving; but we had three leagues to go, and our guide hastened us; so we left him, and went forward on our journey.
"We saw him, too, only yesterday," cried Balbilla, eagerly. "If ever a man was permitted to wear the form of a god among mortals, it is he." "Romantic creature!" "I know no one who could look upon him with indifference.
Opening her box, she began to throw her belongings in viciously. From without came the crunch of Billy Penticost's boots as he crossed the little yard and the clink of a pail set down; then the rhythmic sound of pumping, so like the stertorous breathing of some vast creature, rose on the morning air.
We were angels compared with this paltry creature, and she was the standing butt of public censure, until it was found that an imaginary picture of her could be made the handle for insulting her betters.
She has seen and heard too much of our condition." "Our Indians would hold her safe enough, madame." "Yet she is a soft, feeble creature, and much exhausted. Could she bear their hard living?" "Madame, she will requite whoever shelters her with shame and trouble. If D'Aulnay has turned her forth, she would willingly buy back his favor by opening this fortress to him.
The war between France and England after 1688 dissolved the alliance between the French and English buccaneers; and the last conspicuous event in their history was the capture of Cartagena in 1697. But there is another amphibious creature to be met with here, called a sea-lion, that bears some resemblance to a seal, though it is much larger. This, too, we ate, under the denomination of beef.
"Oh! would it?" said John, innocently. "Well, what did you ask me for?" "Why, you tiresome creature! I wanted you to say something. What are you sitting moping over a book for? You don't entertain me a bit." "Dear Lillie, I have been talking about every thing I could think of," said John, apologetically. "Well, I want you to keep on talking, and put up that great heavy book. What is it, any way?"
Children should have their times of being off duty, like soldiers; and when once the obedience, if required, is certain, the little creature should be very early put for periods of practice in complete command of itself; set on the barebacked horse of its own will, and left to break it by its own strength.
She would sing to-night; she would let her own personality go, and be just a human creature doing a daring, inspiring thing for the sake of another human creature who was in need. With a sense of exultant self-surrender she lifted her face and looked up at the Salute.
I wanted to be in their skins or their feathers for a little while: and it used to be as though I really was. You can't understand that?" "You are a strange creature. But if you feel such kinship with the beasts how can you bear to hurt them?" "One is always hurting some one. Some people hurt me. I hurt other people. That's the way of the world. I don't complain.
Word Of The Day