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Here he fell; his sword, which he still grasped in his right hand, rested on the boughs, and pointed upwards to the sky, as if directing the road to the spirit of its gallant master. With the life of the colonel ended the hopes of the French for that day. The officers, we could perceive, did their duty cheered, encouraged, and drove on their men, but all in vain!
Prominent among these was the project of constructing a ship-canal across the Isthmus of Panama, but the scheme was not encouraged, and ultimately fell to the ground. Upon his return to France he again dangled about the court for a few months, by which time he had once more become heartily weary of a life of inaction.
Eval attracted but that Caroline encouraged him, and feeling this they regretted that Lord Alphingham should continue his attentions, which Caroline never appeared to receive with any particular pleasure. Anxious as had been Mrs.
After having received a mortal wound, he was carried back through the river by four soldiers, and, though almost in the agonies of death, he, with a cheerful countenance, encouraged those who were crossing to do their duty, exclaiming, "A la gloire, mes enfants, a la gloire!"
I made the first essay of my talents for censure on such books as I could borrow, and sent my remarks to the magazines; into which they were immediately admitted. 'Thus encouraged, I applied to the publisher of a new review, and informed him of my course of reading, and of the languages and sciences with which I was acquainted.
"Say, it's too bad to turn around and swim away from that vessel!" he lamented wearily, "and this sun is fierce!" "I say let's try going through!" encouraged Greer. "It'll be difficult," warned Caradoc. "Won't swimming clear around the earth be difficult?" demanded Greer hotly. "Proceed," agreed Caradoc tersely. "It's all one to me."
There was another thing I could have wished, namely, that Jip had never been encouraged to walk about the tablecloth during dinner. I began to think there was something disorderly in his being there at all, even if he had not been in the habit of putting his foot in the salt or the melted butter.
"They immediately," says Rapin, "set up a shout all over their camp, and drew down several squadrons of their horse upon a plain towards the river, as if they meant to pass and pursue the English army. Nay, the report of the King's death flew presently to Dublin, and from thence spread as far as Paris, where the people were encouraged to express their joy by bonfires and illuminations."
Still the arming of the Monteros has always been encouraged by the authorities, as they form a sort of militia at all times available against negro insurrection, a calamity in fear of which such communities must always live.
"And I will also," resumed Peters, encouraged by the somewhat softened tone, and slightly hesitating manner of the other "I will also relinquish all claims, and forego all interference, in matters that may have stood in the way of your private interests and wishes." "I will make no pledges, nor grant, nor receive any terms, at your dictation, sir," said the former, haughtily.
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