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I doubt if there was a moment in our fortnight's devotion when we thought the doughty canons, its brave-spoken founders, "mad to have undertaken it," as they said they expected people to think, or any moment when we did not revere them for imagining a temple at once so beautiful and so big.
I would n't let them pass by without a bow or two, if they were a fleet of two deckers!" Apparently this reckless bravado entirely suited the ship's company, for one of the men who had heard the doughty captain's speech called for three cheers, which were given with a will. "Ay, that's a fine hearty crew, and full of fight. Call on all hands, Mr. Simpson."
Travellers go in dread of them in the Syrian desert and all along the Euphrates. Doughty mentions that they, more than any other tribe, resemble the Jews both in appearance and disposition. He further states that the Jews of Damascus and Aleppo shun them as they are non-observant Jews, considered by some to be Karaites.
Very often merchants' letters and customs accounts give us the names of these doughty little ships and their cargoes.
"Ye Spaniards, quake! our doughty Drake a royal swan is tested, On wing and oar, from shore to shore, the raging main who breasted: But never needs to chant his deeds, like swan that lies a-dying, So far his name, by trump of fame, around the sphere is flying." "Hillo ho! schoolmaster!" shouted a voice from behind; "move on, and make way for Father Neptune!"
"Let go the lion, master, he is so fierce of mood," quoth the good knight Folker. "Had he slain the whole world with his one hand, I'll smite him, and he come within my reach, so that he may never sing the answer to my song." At this the men of Berne waxed passing wroth of mood. Wolfhart, a doughty knight and a good, snatched up his shield.
I served with honor, and have done some doughty deeds; let that content you." This angered Ruth, who resolutely exclaimed: "No, a thousand times no! You are the Eletto of Aalst, the pillager of cities, and this cannot be swept aside as easily as the dust from the floor. I.... I am only a feeble girl; but father, he will never give his hand to the blood-stained man in Spanish garb!
For the usual fate of Chouan prisoners swiftly overtakes the surviving leaders of the Savenaye "band of brigands," as that doughty knot of loyalists was termed by their arch-enemy, Thureau.
His traffic with the Old Fox had spirited away the Holy Father in God whom the saints preserve! and swept off also, probably on a broom-stick, the doughty champion whose sole desire it was to lead the hosts of Ireland to victory.
Can the present King of Abyssinia, interviewed by our own correspondent, equal the romantic charm of Prester John, or the butcher in the next street rival the personality of Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, Baronet?
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