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There is, to be sure, a charming couplet in some old humanist about LYMPHA NEPENTHI; but modern scholars are disposed to think either that the text is corrupt and that the writer was picturing an imaginary NYMPHA some laughing sea-lady or else that he merely indulged in one of those poetic flights which are a feature of the literature of his period.
Heldar, you won't forget that we were largely instrumental in bringing you before the public. He panted because of the seven flights of stairs. Dick glanced at Torpenhow, whose left eyelid lay for a moment dead on his cheek. 'I shan't forget, said Dick, every instinct of defence roused in him. 'You've paid me so well that I couldn't, you know.
His manner, and the electrifying words, had drawn every man around him in a close circle. "That's what all the gun fire is about barrages and counter-barrages. Disregard the patrol orders, Lieutenant, and proceed with these two flights to Dormans at once!
Near at hand he is a disgusting bird, ragged in plumage, base in aspect, and of loathsome odor. On the 17th of April Mr. Hunt arrived with his party at the station near the Nodowa River, where the main body had been quartered during the winter. Return of Spring. Appearance of Snakes. Great Flights of Wild Pigeons. Renewal of the Voyage. Night Encampments. Platte River. Ceremonials on Passing It.
He came daily, and as it was her wish that new themes, new flights of converse, should delight him and show her exhaustless, to preserve her ascendancy, she welcomed him without consulting the world. He was witness of Mr. Hepburn's presentation of a costly China vase, to repair the breach in her array of ornaments, and excuse a visit.
"He can't get away from it because he can't get away from himself. His mind is egocentric and his ego lives in Wyck." Barbara had had to ask Ralph to help her. They were in the library together now, working on the Ramblings during one of Mr. Waddington's periodical flights to London. "He thinks he's rambling round the country but he's really rambling round and round himself.
Oh, he could stand a whipping in the privacy of the flat if a whipping was waiting for him at the top of those three flights now that this public part of the return had gone so magnificently! AND yet, after all, there was no sense in taking a strapping if it could just as well be avoided. In the area he halted One-Eye, and they talked the matter over.
So let us pause now, after these high flights, in the little valley in which we live, and see whether in the Theosophical Society any such process of events may be seen as has been played on the great world theatre, in the drama of evolving humanity.
"And while we are discussing the physical aspects of the instrument there is the 'chin rest. None of the great violin makers ever made a 'chin rest. Increasing technical demands, sudden pyrotechnical flights into the higher octaves brought the 'chin rest' into being. The 'chin rest' was meant to give the player a better grasp of his instrument.
Connel reached for the switches and levers that would bring the giant ship to rest on the red planet of Mars. Even after his many years in the Solar Guard and thousands of space flights, landing a rocket ship was still a thrill to the veteran spaceman, and knowing that he had a good man on the radar deck made it even more exciting and demanding of his skill.
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