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The boats, however, were so heavily laden, that they could not make much speed to satisfy themselves as to what had happened. The men did their best, and it was wonderful how they kept up their spirits under the hot broiling sun, which, as Paddy observed, "was roaring away like a furnace, right over their heads."
Such poisons in the blood are particularly harmful to the nerves and the brain, because these are among the most delicate and sensitive of all the structures in the body. Often we think of the body as a beautiful house. Now a house does not look very beautiful when it has dust and crumbs on the floor, buckets of greasy dishwater in the kitchen, and smoke from the furnace in the air!
"Napoleon, you see, my friends, was born in Corsica, which is a French island warmed by the Italian sun; it is like a furnace there, everything is scorched up, and they keep on killing each other from father to son for generations all about nothing at all 'tis a notion they have.
She could say nothing in reply, and she quickly dried her eyes. At last she murmured in a despairing tone: "I am I I am a little sad I am a little bored." But she was terrified at having even said so much, and added very quickly: "And, besides I am I am a little cold." This last plea made him angry. "Ah! yes, still your idea of the furnace.
In a great army there is every degree of risk to be run or immunity to be enjoyed; but at the very front, where all is stripped and laid bare, modern warfare is at times a furnace of horror. Its smoke darkens the heavens, thickening the "clouds and darkness" round about God, and deepening His silence. Its white heat scorches out human confidence in Him. He does not seem to count.
Besides the family of the six little Bunkers and their father and mother, there was Norah O'Grady, the cook, and there was also Jerry Simms, the man who cut the grass, cleaned the automobile, and sprinkled the lawn in summer and took ashes out of the furnace in winter. The first book of this series is called "Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's."
His face as blanched as a dead man's, his voice pealing out above the babel like a bell, Oliver stood to windward of the double furnace, giving quick orders on right and left. "Two men there on the Major's quarters Let the guard-house go Use your blanket, Flaherty, use your blanket Sergeant," as Kippis passed close by, "clear the Row and bring 'em all down here.
"What's to be done with it, then?" demanded the traveller, "I can't keep it, you know, and I'm not going to sit down here and spend half-an-hour in returning the money. If you don't take it John, I must fling it under the engine or into the furnace."
In fact the sweet little face was crimson, and her eyes swelled as if she had been crying violently. "It is so fearfully hot," said Mary. "Eudoxia" her Greek governess "says that Egypt in summer is a fiery furnace, a hell upon earth. She is quite ill with the heat, and lies like a fish on the sand; the only good thing about it is. . ." "That she lets you run off and gives you no lessons?"
With a cry of terror we sprang backwards, all except the wretched Alphonse, who was paralysed with fear, and would have fallen into the fiery furnace which had been prepared for us, had not Sir Henry caught him in his strong hand as he was vanishing and dragged him back.
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