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After being, as related, furnished with food and raiment, we retired to our quatres, a most primitive sort of couch, being a simple wooden frame, with a piece of canvass stretched over it.
"Among other things, we were shown the 'Magna Charta' a few fragments of worn-out paper on which some words could be traced; now carefully preserved in a frame, beneath a glass. "Thus far England has impressed me seriously; I cannot imagine how it has ever earned the name of 'Merrie England. "August 19.
We paid for them an annual rental amounting to ten per cent of their cost, which had of course been excessively high on account of the necessity of packing everything used in them, except the lumber, up the Naguilian trail. However, we were in no frame of mind to be critical.
"Utter prostration of Rome, for new and long ages; God makes not two Rienzis; or," said Montreal, proudly, "the infusion of a new life into the worn-out and diseased frame, the foundation of a new dynasty.
A chosen company led by Hasan of Ulubad, a man of gigantic frame, first crossed the ruins of the wall, and their leader gained the summit of the dilapidated tower which flanked the breach. The defenders, headed by the emperor Constantine, made a desperate resistance.
Anna Iurievna resembled her father, as much as a young, graceful, pretty woman can resemble an elderly man with strongly-marked features and athletic frame, such as was General Nazimoff.
She rocked forward, reaching out with one hand for the frame to steady herself, and in that same instant the man who lay a huddled motionless heap across the table top, moved a little and began to speak aloud. "They didn't want me," he muttered, and the words came with muffled thickness. "Not even for the strength of my shoulders."
One evening about a fortnight later Lord Ronsdale, in a dissatisfied frame of mind, strolled along Piccadilly. His face wore a dark look, the expression of one ill-pleased with fortune's late attitude toward him.
"Do you remember losing a heap of money on the Derby, and being in so desperate a frame of mind that you took the holster-pistols down from their place above the chimney-piece in your barrack sitting-room, and threatened to blow your brains out?
"That means you make a bankrupt of me?" Phipps demanded hoarsely. "Why not?" Wingate replied. "It's been a long duel between us, Phipps, and I mean this to be the final bout." Phipps moved his position a little uneasily. He was keeping himself under control, but the veins were standing out upon his forehead, his frame seemed tense with passion. "Tell me, Wingate, is it still the girl?"
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