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Explaining the circumstances to him, I found him, as I had quite anticipated, more than ready to render me every possible assistance; and, departing to muster his men, he returned in a very short time with nineteen of his most reliable fighters the boat's utmost capacity was twenty, in addition to myself, and the chief naturally elected to accompany and head his party.
The arch-idolater who made idols of his own rebuked Pombo in the name of Man for having broken his idols "for hath not Man made them?" the arch-idolater said; and concerning the idols themselves he spoke long and learnedly, explaining divine etiquette, and how Pombo had offended, and how no idol in the world would listen to Pombo's prayer.
Of course, I don't really know that he's got it, but I do know that he had it. I know that when I came on him this afternoon, he had just locked the door and put the key in his pocket." "You mean you saw him at the time, but that you've only just remembered it reconstructed it in the way you were explaining just now?" "No. I didn't see him. But I did see something.
When I had corrected her in this error, explaining the proposed bestowal of the rôles she as Juliet upon the balcony, I as Romeo upon the stage below she seemed quite overcome with gratification, managing, however, in part to cloak her feelings beneath smiles and laughter.
It was pathetic, as I look at it now, the things we were trying to do and the conditions under which we were trying to do them the raw commercial force and theory which underlay the whole thing, the necessity of explaining and fighting for so much that one should not, as I saw it then, have to argue over at all.
For the venerable philosopher, while justly explaining the glamour of the army by its subordination of the individual to the communal weal, yet pointed out emphatically that what unites individuals separates nations. "The work of justice shall be peace," he quotes from Isaiah.
He will probably have enough to do in explaining his own connection with this uncommon way of amusing the rear-guard of a retreating enemy." A young officer approached from below, climbing breathless up the acclivity.
The different members of the cabinet made statements explaining their policy, but apparently they had satisfied nobody on either side, and it was evident that the Chamber was not only dissatisfied but actively hostile. W. and his friends were very discouraged and disgusted. They had gone as far as they could in the way of concessions. W. saw Grevy very often.
"What are you thinking of, Moray?" said Rodd, a little while after, while they were sitting listening in the darkness to the murmur of Joe's voice forward as he was explaining matters to the men. "I was thinking," said Moray gravely, "of how long it would be before it is day."
He was sorry when his friend, Seneca Doane, defended arrested strikers, and he thought of going to Doane and explaining about these agitators, but when he read a broadside alleging that even on their former wages the telephone girls had been hungry, he was troubled. "All lies and fake figures," he said, but in a doubtful croak.
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