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I will lay the strong holds of sin and Satan as flat before my face as the dung that is spread out to fatten the land." "Master, there's a gentleman at the fore-door wants a private word o' ye." "Tell him I'm engaged: I can't see any gentleman to-night. But I shall attend on him to-morrow as soon as he pleases." "'He's coming straight in, Sir. Stop a wee bit, Sir, my master is engaged.
Willy Cameron thought he saw behind it Jim Doyle and other men like Doyle, men who knew the discontents of the world, and would fatten by them; men who, secretly envious of the upper classes and unable to attain to them, would pull all men to their own level, or lower. Men who cloaked their own jealousies with the garb of idealism. Intelligent it was, dangerous, and imminent.
D'Artagnan placed himself at the table, and began a hearty attack upon his fowl. "It appears to me," said D'Artagnan, biting with all his might at the tough fowl they had served up to him, and which they had evidently forgotten to fatten, "it appears that I have done wrong in not seeking service with that master yonder. A powerful noble this intendant, seemingly!
Watch those lazy, lounging, able-bodied, smoking, and salivating loons who prop up every street-corner, and monopolize the narrow pathways these all live by him; they eat up his substance, and fatten thereupon.
Thou miserable swineherd, whither dost thou take that worthless beggar, this vagabond who rubs his shoulders on every door-post, asking for crusts, eating gluttonously, and telling tales of woe? "Just hand him over to me to guard my stables and clean my yard, and I will give him whey to drink, which will fatten his limbs. But work does not suit such a fellow.
Such is the irrevocable decree of Him Who is the All-Powerful, the Self-Sufficient. 116 I counsel you, in the end, not to overstep the bounds of God, nor to heed the ways and habits of men, for these can neither “fatten nor appease your hunger”. Fix, rather, your gaze upon the precepts of God.
Will you likewise," he added, as the other looked at him disconcerted, "forgive the Squire who has offended you? Will you go to Tronka Castle, mount your black horses, ride them back to Kohlhaasenbrück and fatten them there?" "Your Reverence!" said Kohlhaas flushing, and seized his hand "Well?" "Even the Lord did not forgive all his enemies.
But their descendants, secure in their own power, can afford to be generous, and allow a whole world of lesser plants to nestle in their branches, another world to fatten round their feet.
There were a great many customs in Paris equally foreign to our, shall I say, Imperial ways; together with a plethora of scientific chefs who could metamorphose anything rats as well as horses. There were revolutionaries in France in sufficient numbers to make traffic in gruesome dietary pay; and plenty of fodder, besides, with which to "fatten" beasts.
Cope, 'they are not so much pressed for time but that they can wait till you've quite forgotten your tumble into the Ragglesford. We must fatten you get rid of those spider-fingers, and you and I must do a few more lessons together and I think Mrs. King has something towards your outfit; and by Whitsuntide, I told Mr.
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