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Was there a poetical justice in this, that the little ménage thus secretly established, in the solitary and timeworn pile, should have themselves experienced, but from causes not so easily explicable, those very supernatural perturbations which they had themselves essayed to inspire?
In a word, I frightened him so completely, that he decided on the greatest act of courage he had ever essayed in my favor: it was, to desire the intervention of the duc de Choiseul in all these quarrels. The credit of this minister was immense, and this credit was based on four powerful auxiliaries; namely the parliament, the philosophers, the <literati>, and the women.
He had told a Chinese joke well, and essayed an Irish joke not so successfully. Peter, somewhat appalled, in the sunny garden, struggling with the banksia, decided that this was not much to know of a person who might have the audacity to fall in love with an exquisite and innocent Cherry.
I I notice you're running a light track from the drying-yard down to the Sawdust Pile. Stumbled over it in the dark a few minutes ago, and I " He essayed a ghastly smile, for he desired to remove the sting from the gentle rebuke he purposed giving the general manger "couldn't seem to remember having ordered that track or suggesting that it be laid." "Quite so, Donald; quite so," Daney answered.
Jane gazed wide-eyed, neither moving nor speaking, then suddenly hurled herself into the pond. Two loud splashes followed her own dive into the water. Tommy and Miss Elting were plunging ahead with all speed. Jane was the first to reach the scene. She dived, came up empty-handed, then dived again. Tommy essayed to make a dive, but did not get in deep enough to fully cover her back.
Sabre essayed to laugh it off. "My wife's rather a sudden person, you know." Twyning joined very heartily in the laugh. "Is she?" He looked around. "She's seeing you off, I suppose?" "No, she's not. She's not too well. Got a rotten cold." Twyning stared again in what struck Sabre as rather an odd way. "Oh, I'm sorry, old man. Nothing much, I hope. Well, you'll want to be getting in.
Once or twice he essayed to speak, but a rising in his throat prevented it. At length he shouldered his rifle, and cried with a clear huntsmans call that echoed through the woods: He-e-e-re, he-e-e-re, pups away, dogs, away! ye'll be footsore afore ye see the end of the journey!
Bernadotte's corps, after making history in its march, was detached to the south-east so as to hold in check the Russian vanguard, and to give plenty of room to the troops that were to cut off Mack from Austria, a move which may be compared with the march of Bonaparte to Milan before he essayed the capture of Melas.
Petersburg government announced that the Chinese had given permission to the Russian fleet to winter at Port Arthur; in February, 1898, Russia added Talienwan to Port Arthur, but essayed to disarm criticism by declaring that the first-named port would be opened to the ships of all the great powers like other ports on the Chinese mainland.
"I didn't do so badly," he essayed apologetically. "To tell you the truth, I really hadn't meant " "Never mind what you meant!" I interrupted. "Please give me those things back again at once!" Eve dropped them into the handkerchief, twisted them up and passed them across to me.
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