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Meanwhile we are protecting our citizens and stand ready to cooperate with any government which may emerge in promoting the welfare of the people of China. They have always had our friendship, and they should especially merit our consideration in these days of their distraction and distress. We were confronted by similar condition on a small scale in Nicaragua.
"God forbid!" cried the poor woman, driven almost to distraction; "I said nothing of the kind! That would be awful! What the Bible says is, that God does so." "Well, if God chooses, we must leave him to do as he chooses not do likewise!" "Surely, surely, Richard! If he does it, he knows what he's about, and we don't." "All right, mother! Then tell me where Arthur and Alice are gone.
But to-day the dress recalled David promised distraction and retaliation. She slipped off her tight gingham with hasty fingers, and in a few seconds she was transformed.
"Albeit thou hast waited longer than some. But eat, my master. There will be time and to spare for finishing." "You speak truly," assented the girl almost cheerfully for the mere distraction of her thoughts served to raise her spirits. "Truly; and for that cause I will teach my hand to move more slowly so that it will take a long, long time. And I trow it will for the stone is very hard."
'EVER INJURED MISS PECKSNIFF Ere this reaches you, the undersigned will be if not a corpse on the way to Van Dieman's Land. Send not in pursuit. I never will be taken alive! 'The burden 300 tons per register forgive, if in my distraction, I allude to the ship on my mind has been truly dreadful. Frequently when you have sought to soothe my brow with kisses has self-destruction flashed across me.
'And what, said Iago, 'if some thoughts very vile should have intruded into my breast, as where is the palace into which foul things do not enter? Then Iago went on to say, what a pity it were, if any trouble should arise to Othello out of his imperfect observations; that it would not be for Othello's peace to know his thoughts; that people's good names were not to be taken away for slight suspicions; and when Othello's curiosity was raised almost to distraction with these hints and scattered words, Iago, as if in earnest care for Othello's peace of mind, besought him to beware of jealousy: with such art did this villain raise suspicions in the unguarded Othello, by the very caution which he pretended to give him against suspicion.
I shot into the air. That's all." "A pretty distraction," commented Raisky ironically. "No distraction," said Mark seriously. "There was more in it, a badly-needed lesson for the old boy." "And then what?" "Nothing. He lied to the Governor, saying that I had aimed at him, but missed.
The chest expands, the appetite increases, but the mind is inclined to a melancholy and sentimental state which carries one back to fairyland. Timar floated for hours on the gently rocking waves; he wandered whole days on the shore, and could hardly tear himself away when night fell. He sought no distraction from shooting or fishing.
B, C, D, E, F, into distraction, would there be any bearing of the world's burthen? Do not let us be in the least angry or surprised if all the company played on, and were happy, although Lady Maria had come to grief. Countess, the deal is with you! Are you going to Stubblefield to shoot as usual, Sir John? Captain, we shall have you running off to the Bath after the widow!
But just at present there's a distraction. His new secretary arrived some weeks ago, and he now spends his whole time, from morning till night, dictating to her and showing her his things. 'Secretary? A woman? Good heavens! Who is she? 'A great swell, I understand. Oxford First Class in Mods, Second in Greats. I've only just seen her. A striking-looking person.
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