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The room was empty when Ramsay entered it, and he took the advice of his host, and amused himself by examining the pictures, and other articles of vertu with which the room was filled.
But the event proved that these were empty menaces. In this manner, receiving as they passed the forced congratulations of the mayor and the common council, the conquerors marched to Westminster, where each speaker was placed in his chair by the hand of the general.
His object was sovereign power and authority, which he pursued through innumerable dangers, and by prodigious efforts he gained it at last. But he reaped no other fruit from it than an empty and invidious title.
It was Williams, the coxswain. 'Well, young fellow me lad, he remarked genially, 'how goes it? 'Top hole, thanks. A bit empty. That's all. 'If that's your only trouble, we'll soon fix it. Can you walk? 'You bet. 'Then come along forrard, and we'll see what cooky can do for you.
A second after the street door closes, and Stephen stands on the dining-room mat, looking down the empty hall.
Therefore, by soul we understand the spiritual, the best, and most noble part of man, as distinct from the body, even that by which we understand, imagine, reason, and discourse. And, indeed, as I shall further show you presently, the body is but a poor, empty vessel, without this great thing called the soul. It is, therefore, the chief and most noble part of man.
The heaviest trains seemed to run at night, and the returning empty trains were hurried forward at a speed suggesting the urgency of clearing the line for a fully loaded train awaiting at Rafa the signal to proceed with its valuable load to railhead.
See, they troop from thy presence obediently. Now the animals fled from before the brows of Shibli Bagarag, and when the chamber was empty of them the seven young men said, 'Of a surety thou wert flattered to observe the aspect of these animals at beholding thee. But he cried, 'Not so, O my princes; there is nought flattering in the homage of asses and monkeys.
I am the principal shareholder, and nothing pleases me better than to see the store succeeding." I knew, as a matter of fact, that Crossan had no coal. I also knew that the Finola was not coaling. The carts were loaded when they were going up the hill. They would have been empty if they had been going to get coal for the Finola.
Bill Nevins, my engineer, and a landsman who was to work the h'istin' engine, looked kind 'er peaked when what was left of the jib come rattlin' down on his fo'c's'le hatch, but I says to him, 'the Screamer's all right, Billy, so she don't strike nothin' and so long's we can keep the water out 'er. Can't sink 'er any more'n an empty five-gallon ker'sene can with the cork in.
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