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But there is one very extensive warehouse among the rest that needs special mention the ship's Yeoman's storeroom. In the Neversink it was down in the ship's basement, beneath the berth-deck, and you went to it by way of the Fore-passage, a very dim, devious corridor, indeed. Entering say at noonday you find yourself in a gloomy apartment, lit by a solitary lamp.
She therefore trod with him a path so devious, so faintly traced, and so overgrown with bushes and young trees, that only a most accurate acquaintance in his early days could have enabled her guide to retain it.
Better to walk on the narrowest path that leads to the City than to be chartered libertines, wandering anywhere at our own bitter wills, and finding 'no end, in devious mazes lost. Freedom consists in obeying from the heart the restriction of love; and walking punctiliously. III. Lastly, note the motives for this course.
With that I told him he must court me without any regard to Rupert, and explained the whole plot was Rupert's, and not mine. "There's something devious about it," I said, "or it wouldn't be Rupert. You exercise your manhood, Arthur," I said, "and make up your own mind, and don't let my son make it up for you. 'Tis past bearing," I said, "and I won't stand for it. Who be he to drive us?"
For, behold, where he thought to meet an enemy, devious and tricky, he had encountered instead, a friend, generous, hospitable! "I fail to see your play, quite, Captain Merrithew," grumbled Mr. Howland. "Well," interpolated Virginia, "it was a very interesting play. Captain, I had no idea you could be so eloquent." "Thank you," laughed Dan. "Mr.
This load would probably in action disappear in half an hour; and when one reflects that in one of our recent engagements each battery fired off 200 shells, it is easy to understand the enormous weight of metal which has to follow an army in order to make the artillery efficient, and to realise how unwilling a general is to leave a railway behind him, and attempt to move his transport across the uncertain and devious tracks of an unmapped African veldt.
'We've got instructions to look out for a car, and the description's no unlike yours. 'Right-o, said my host, while I thanked Providence for the devious ways I had been brought to safety. After that he spoke no more, for his mind began to labour heavily with his coming speech. His lips kept muttering, his eye wandered, and I began to prepare myself for a second catastrophe.
Satisfying themselves first therefore that their wives were doing their duty for their household, mistress Upstill was as good as two men at least at appropriation, they set out, Cast-down taking the lead, master Sycamore, John Croning, and the rest following, armed with crowbars, for the top of the great tower, ambitious to commence the overthrow by attacking the very summit, the high places of wickedness, the crown of pride; and after some devious wandering, at length found the way to the stair.
As usual her destiny, after leading her by many devious routes, brought her to the one door where she might obtain light.... "Tell me," said her host in his courteous tones, "about your California I have always wanted to go there some day." When Adelle descended from her room to the hotel parlor to meet her cousin on his arrival, she was conscious of trepidation.
Slowly and deliberately he made his way toward the front till he reached a bench where he sat down under a tree to ruminate over the situation and inspect the feathered prize which he had lately acquired by certain, devious means known only to Uncle Billy.