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About nine miles from the north-east angle of the wall of Nineveh, in a direction a very little east of north, stands the ruin known as Khorsabad, from a small village which formerly occupied its summit the scene of the labors of M. Botta, who was the first to disentomb from among the mounds of Mesopotamia the relics of an Assyrian palace.
Gibault grasped at this wild plan as a drowning man is said to grasp at a straw, and lent his aid right willingly to disentomb and carry the brandy keg. Neither he nor Bounce knew whether there was enough brandy to intoxicate the whole tribe, but they had no time to inquire minutely into probabilities.
A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathised with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies. "Cheer up, Fred," said Bolton, coming and laying his hand on the youth's shoulder, "it's not your father. There is a bit of black hair sticking to the scalp."
A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathized with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies. "Cheer up, Fred," said Bolton, coming and laying his hand on the youth's shoulder; "it's not your father. There is a bit of black hair sticking to the scalp."
The result was literally overwhelming, for in a moment he was almost buried in snow, to the unutterable delight of his sister, who stood screaming with laughter as the unfortunate boy struggled to disentomb himself.
The men, women, and children struggled to disentomb themselves, and in doing so mixed up the oil of the lamps, the soup of their kettles, the black soot of the walls and roof, the dogs that had sneaked in, the junks of cooked, half-cooked, and raw blubber, and their own hairy-coated persons, into a conglomerate so atrocious to behold, or even think upon, that we are constrained to draw a curtain over the scene and spare the reader's feelings.
The people! there is no people! Oh! would to God that we might disentomb the spirit of the Past as easily as her records!" "If I were your kinsman," whispered Montreal to Adrian, "I would give this man short breathing-time between his peroration and confession." "What is your Emperor?" continued Rienzi; "a stranger! What the great head of your Church? an exile!
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