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The cause of their being still unfaithful to Spain arises out of this matter having been taken up by fits and starts, and not in the serious manner it ought to have been done.

In short, as the greatest pleasure of the respondents is to see their Oedipus mystified, as each word guessed by you throws them into fits of laughter, superior men, perceiving no word that will fit all the explanations, will sooner give it up than make three unsuccessful attempts.

The ship was crowded with passengers, and everything was in the bustle attendant upon making sail. Wyatt's party arrived in about ten minutes after myself. There were the two sisters, the bride, and the artist the latter in one of his customary fits of moody misanthropy. I was too well used to these, however, to pay them any special attention.

"I I thought it was, when I saw him," stammered Greg Holmes, rather abashed now. "He's the same build as Fits, and looked like him at a distance. And this man, Breslin, was peering around the corner and acting suspiciously. He ran away, too, when we started after him." "I'll go with ye, peaceable like," promised Dock Breslin, getting upon his feet and addressing the blue coated one.

Eighthly, how many things may and do oftentimes follow upon such fits of anger and grief; far more grievous in themselves, than those very things which we are so grieved or angry for. Ninthly, that meekness is a thing unconquerable, if it be true and natural, and not affected or hypocritical.

Agrippina was immediately summoned, and as she stood over the dying child she was overwhelmed with terror and distress. Nero, on the other hand, appeared wholly unmoved. "It is only one of his epileptic fits," said he. "Britannicus has been accustomed to them from infancy. He will soon recover."

"Perhaps it's because of his long gray hairs that he has so much wisdom," Dol suggested. "A bright idea, Chick!" chuckled the student, tapping the boy's shoulder. "We keep on speaking of him as 'he' when you said the thing was probably a female," put in Neal. "That doesn't matter. I'm not certain. Look at old Tiger! He's having fits now that he has discovered how he's been tricked."

She watched the movements of Therese with sudden fits of tears; and would then call her to the bedside, and embrace her amid more sobs, telling her in a suffocating tone that she, now, had nobody but her in the world. In the evening, she consented to get up, and make an effort to eat. Therese then saw what a terrible shock her aunt had received.

Before the war Morrie's great drinking came seldom, by fits and bursts and splendid unlasting uprushes; after the war the two states tended to approach till they merged in one continual sickly soaking.

I went down, dressed as I was, and my gloves on, and my fan in my hand, to be just ready to step into the chariot, when I could get away; and I thought all my trembling fits had been over now; but I was mistaken; for I trembled sadly. Yet resolved to put on as good an air as I could. So I went to the parlour, and said, making a very low courtesy, Your servant, my good lady!