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There are myriads upon myriads of princes in thy realm, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and overseers without number. Let the pettiest of the princes go and fetch the boy and put him in prison."
She knew he was clever, with a large practice besides his work as head surgeon at one of the big hospitals, but Warren had added to this the information that George was a poor business man, and ill qualified to protect his own interests. Yet, in his own home a handsome and yet shabby brownstone house in the West Fifties he appeared to better advantage.
We'll come again next year, not for twenty-fives but fifties." "I will make it dollars if I only live so long," he muttered. And deigning now to remember the question I had put to him, he grandly remarked: "I am going straight into town. Can I do anything for you?" "Nothing. I thought you might like to know what awaits you there. The city is greatly stirred up.
First of all they came upon a ball dress of the former time, of white silk, with a sash of Macpherson tartan, besides much fine lace. "That is the dress your great-grandmother wore as a bride at the Court of Versailles in the fifties. She was only a lassie, and seemed like her husband's daughter.
It could continue to render service only by cutting down the returns to the factors of production, by lowering profits, and especially by pressing down wages. In the sixties the market became a national one as the effect of the consolidation into trunk lines of the numerous and disconnected railway lines built during the forties and fifties.
McLane in social leadership; Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Brannan, and other women whose power was rooted in the Fifties; Maria and Sally Ballinger, Marguerite McLane, and Guadalupe Hathaway, whose blue large talking Spanish eyes had made her the belle of many seasons: all met to discuss the disquieting news of the marriage in Boston of the most popular and fashionable doctor in San Francisco, Howard Talbot.
It is to the Institution Vergnès that my earliest recovery of the sense of being in any degree "educated with" W. J. attaches itself; an establishment which occupied during the early 'fifties a site in the very middle of Broadway, of the lower, the real Broadway, where it could throb with the very pulse of the traffic in which we all innocently rejoiced believing it, I surmise, the liveliest conceivable: a fact that is by itself, in the light of the present, an odd rococo note.
As you will not fight him, and as apologies are out of the question . . . Here, Monsieur; there is equal light, and we are alone." "I do not kill old men." "Then listen: I apply to you the term De Leviston applied to my son." "Monsieur, retract that!" Their shoulders brushed and glowing eyes looked into glowing eyes. "Bah! In my fifties I killed more men of your kidney than I am proud of. Retract?
The Fifth Michigan cavalry was recruited under the title of "Copeland's Mounted Riflemen." One of the most picturesque figures in America before the war was John C. Fremont, known as "The Pathfinder," whose "Narrative," in the fifties, was read by boys with the same avidity that they displayed in the perusal of the "Arabian Nights."
We were ordered to keep the frigate always in sight, and as the prize sailed well, we had little difficulty in doing that. In the day time we collected the poor blacks to come on deck in fifties at a time, and walk up and down. We had a black man on board the frigate, who was now sent with us, and he understood the language of some of the slaves.
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