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But if the reader shall have happened to have ridden at any time through a pastoral country, with a clog of a noble race following him, he must have remarked, in the deference ultimately paid to the high-bred animal by the shepherd's cur as he crosses the lonely glen, of which the latter conceives himself the lord and guardian, something very similar to the demeanour of the incensed Greeks, when they approached near to the little band of Franks.
In 773, Adrian invoked the aid of the king of the Franks, whom his envoys succeeded, not without difficulty, in finding at Thionville. Charlemagne could not abandon the grand position left him by his father as protector of the Papacy and as patrician of Rome.
Perhaps you are prepared for it. Do you know that I went abroad last summer?" "I heard of it." "From Miss Elvan?" "From Mrs. Franks." "Mrs. Franks yes. She told you, then, that I had been to St. Jean de Luz? She told you that I had seen her sister?" "Yes," replied Bertha, and added quickly. "You had long wished to see that part of France." "That wasn't my reason for going.
Whatever disputes may have existed as to the mythology of other branches of the Teutonic subdivision of the Aryan race whatever discussions may have arisen as to the position of this or that divinity among the Franks, the Anglo-Saxons, or the Goths about the Norsemen there can be no dispute or doubt.
In the year 241 A.D., the great Aurelian is seen fighting the Franks near Mayence, who, nevertheless, pressed forward until they made their way into Spain. The most formidable of the enemies of Rome were the Goths. When first spoken of in history they inhabited the shores of the Baltic. They were called by Tacitus, Gothones. In the time of Caracalla they had migrated to the coast of the Black Sea.
'Oh, well up, partner, Jane could hear him say, all the time. Or else it was 'Well tried. Too bad. Clare's happy eyes shone, brown and clear in her flushed face, like agates. Rather a pretty thing, Clare, if dull. The Franks were there, too. 'Old Clare having a good time, said Mrs. Frank to Jane, during a set they weren't playing in. Her merry dark eyes snapped.
They do not commonly engage either in agriculture or in commerce; of the cultivators of the soil I have said quite enough in a foregoing Lecture, and their commerce seems to be generally in the hands of Franks, Greeks, or Armenians, as formerly in the hands of the Jews.
Florence went to open it, and Edith Franks, very neatly dressed, and looking business-like and purposeful, with bright eyes and a clear colour in her cheeks, stood on the threshold. "How do you do?" she said. "I am just off to my work. I am about to have a very hard day, but I thought I would refresh myself with a sight of you. May I come in?"
We have slain a thousand Franks and a thousand Sarmatians; we want a thousand, thousand, Thousand Persians. That was, apparently, a popular burden at the time, for on the days of military festivals, at Rome and in Gaul, the children sang, as they danced,
Harry, on the other hand, was all alive in the stables or in the wood, eager for all parties of hunting and fishing, and promised to be a good sportsman from a very early age. The grandfather's ship was sailing for Europe once when the boys were children, and they were asked what present Captain Franks would bring them back?
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