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Thus addressed, Karna with rage and desirous of doing good to thy son, rained showers of sharp arrows on the invincible Abhimanyu. And the heroic Karna, as if in contempt of his antagonist, also pierced the latter's followers on the field of battle, with many excellent shafts of great sharpness.
The admiral gave repartimientos to those followers of Roldan who chose to stay in the island, which were constituted in the following manner. The repartimiento had now grown to its second state not lands only, but lands and the tillage of them. We shall yet find that there is a further step in this matter, before the repartimiento assumes its utmost development.
This simple and decisive maneuvre on the part of the subordinate had won the victory, and at first it greatly delighted the inspector. "Good, my boy," said he, "very good! Ah! you have a talent for your business, and you will do well if ever an opportunity " But he checked himself; all his followers so evidently shared his enthusiasm that a feeling of jealousy overcame him.
Have you no friends, no relatives, in Galilee, or on the sea-coast?" Zarah shook her head. "I know not of one," she replied. "Rachel dwells not in Bethsura but near it, and in a spot so retired that the enemy is scarcely likely to find it out. If the country be infested by armed bands they are the followers of Maccabeus, and from them we have nothing to dread."
"Why, one dressed to represent Neptune, a famous ocean god, and the rest masked as his followers. They were given presents by the passengers on the ship, and it was a grand holiday." "But who is King Neptune, and where does this ocean god live, mother?" "People used to believe that Neptune was really king of all the waters on the earth, Charlie. Doesn't that seem strange?
It is these same one hundred and twenty-seven verses that constitute the Qásidiy-i-Varqá’íyyih, so familiar to, and widely circulated amongst, His Arabic speaking followers.
Such rooms are silent barriers to friendship: proclaiming that East may go to the West but West cannot come to the East." "In a way that's true, isn't it?" "Yes in a way. This room, of course, is not like my inner apartments. It is like myself, however; cultivated but still Indian. It is my way of preaching true Swadeshi: Be your own self, even with English guests. But so far I have few followers.
Nancy Corbett, satisfied with having effected her object, had crossed over the night before, and joined her companions in the cave, and what was extremely fortunate, on the same night Sir Robert Barclay came over in the lugger, and finding how matters stood, immediately hoisted both the boats up on the rocks, and taking up all the men, prepared with his followers for a vigorous resistance, naturally to be expected from those whose lives depended upon the issue of the conflict.
The junta in Hongkong were assured that the Democratic party would come into power in the next elections and that this would mean the success of the patriotic efforts of Aguinaldo and his followers.
His followers instantly seized him, and bore him off stunned and wounded. While Neptune was thus aiding the Greeks and driving back the Trojans, Jupiter saw nothing of what was going on, for his attention had been drawn from the field by the wiles of Juno.
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