United States or Norway ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Yet I tell you that, heavy as your losses may seem, Spargapises, Tomyris and fifty thousand Massagetae can never outweigh the spirit of one king of Persia, least of all of a Cyrus." "In our country," answered the envoy, "death makes all men equal. The spirits of the king and the slave are of equal worth. Your father was a great man, but we have undergone awful sufferings for his sake.
"What do you think, Uncle Cyrus?" she cried. "What DO you think? I've found out who the cow lady is!" "The cow lady? Oh, yes, yes! Have you? Who is she?" "She's teacher, that's who she is!" The captain was astonished. "No!" he exclaimed. "Phoebe Dawes? You don't say so! Well, well!" "Yes, sir. When I went into school and found her sitting there I was so surprised I didn't know what to do.
Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus Jewish antiquities oh dear! devout epigrams the sacred chime of favorite hymns all alike were as flat as tunes beaten on wood: even the spring flowers and the grass had a dull shiver in them under the afternoon clouds that hid the sun fitfully; even the sustaining thoughts which had become habits seemed to have in them the weariness of long future days in which she would still live with them for her sole companions.
He would have slain Croesus, but, finding him wise and pious, he made him his counsellor. Now, this Cyrus had before overthrown the Median king, Astyages, whose daughter was his own mother. For her father, fearing a dream, wedded her to a Persian, and when she bore a child, he gave order for its slaying. But the babe was taken away and brought up by a herdsman of the hill-folk.
Then the king cast his lance at his brother, but missed him, though he both hit and slew Satiphernes, a noble man and a faithful friend to Cyrus. Then Cyrus directed his lance against the king, and pierced his breast with it quite through his armor, two inches deep, so that he fell from his horse with the stroke.
Cyrus E. Dallin, 30, 32, 35, 36, 37, 63, 66, 73, 83, Colonnade; James E. Fraser, 68, 119; A. Laessle, 51, 66, 67; Paul Manship, 92, 93; Attilio Plccirilli, 23, 42, 66, 73, 83, Colonnade; Bela Pratt, 61, 66, 89, Colonnade; A. Phimister Proctor, 72; Arthur Putnam, 67; F. G. R. Roth, 66. Medals Medals of Honor. John Flanagan, 38, 39. Gold Medals. James E. Fraser, 38, 39; H. A. MacNeil, 38, 39.
"Say, Cyrus," he said to the postmaster, "kinder weigh up this consignment for me, will ye?" The postmaster weighed the box. "That will cost you six cents," he said. "Thank ye," returned Mr. Peaslee, and dropping the box into his deep pocket, departed. Half a dozen eggs more to get it to his next-door neighbor! "'T ain't right," he muttered, "'t ain't right."
Cyrus takes possession of Babylon, and allows the Jews to return. Assembling of the Jews. The number that returned. Arrival of the caravan at Jerusalem. Building the Temple. Emotions of the old men. Rejoicings of the young men. The period of the invasion of Babylonia by Cyrus, and the taking of the city, was during the time while the Jews were in captivity there. Cyrus was their deliverer.
"From Tillietudlem?" said the old gentleman, rising hastily in his bed, and sitting bolt upright, "Open the shutters, Pike I hope my sister-in-law is well furl up the bed-curtain. What have we all here?" The wappen-schaw? I told her a month since I was not to be there. Paduasoy and hanging sleeves? why, hang the gipsy herself! Grand Cyrus and Philipdastus?
Yours, etc., CYRUS BLAKELEE RUGGLES, Land Agent, P. and S. W. R. R. S. BEHRMAN, Local Agent, P. and S. W. R. R. In the midst of the profound silence that followed, Osterman was heard to exclaim grimly: "THAT'S a pretty good one. Tell us another." But for a long moment this was the only remark.
Word Of The Day