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And she put it in her purse, shut it with a snap, and took up the Bible again. Mrs. Jones made a little sound between a gasp and a sob. Her head rolled back on the pillow, and two tears dropped helplessly down the furrows of her face.
Chambers, and Dr. Fleming, are cited by him in confirmation of this arrangement of the glacial markings, while in Sutherland and Ross-shire he shows that the glacial furrows along the north coast point northwards, and in Argyleshire westwards, always in accordance with the direction of the principal glens and fjords.
For I am veritably that Anteus who was the wrestler of Irassa and drew his strength from the ground. So long as I tread the long furrows of my planting, with my feet upon the earth, I am invincible and unconquerable. Hercules himself, though he comes upon me in the guise of Riches, or Fame, or Power, cannot overthrow me save as he takes me away from this soil.
How the human body survives a storm like this must be explained by the fact that it is exposed to it but a few moments at a time, whereas these grand old trees had had no one to take their places, from the rising to the going down of the sun. Angular bits of iron, concavo-convex, sticking in the sides of muddy depressions, showed where shells had exploded in their furrows.
As a general rule, there was no end of ploughing and re-ploughing: a field was reckoned imperfectly tilled, in which the furrows were not drawn so close that harrowing could be dispensed with; but the management was more earnest than intelligent, and no improvement took place in the defective plough or in the imperfect processes of reaping and of threshing.
As soon as black night yielded to the twilight, and the heavens began to pale before the rays of the sun, warily hiding herself in secluded caves, now she wanders in the woods, now lurks in the furrows amongst the ripe ears of Ceres, until returning night, clothed in its wonted gloom, again veils the earth in darkness. Then once more is she diligent to pursue her way begun.
You can read right into my heart. It is even as you say." "This thought haunts thy mind continually and the mark of it is on thy forehead." And at that moment could be plainly seen on the old man's forehead the deep cruciform mark of the intersecting furrows. The youth laid his fresh cold hand on the man's forehead. "Who can tell why the Lord hath ordered it so?
Some of these ridges, "lands" as they are called, are so wide and so elevated that it was said that two teams could pass each other in the furrows, on either side of a single "land," so hidden by the high ridge that they could not see one another; and I myself have noticed them on abandoned arable land that has been in grass from time immemorial, so high as nearly to answer the description.
"Burst, dragon!" "What is seven?" "Where there are seven brothers, don't meddle with their affairs." "Is it you, master?" "Burst, dragon!" "What is eight?" "The plow with eight oxen furrows the earth well." "Is it you, master?" "Burst, dragon!" "What is nine?" "Where there are nine grown daughters in a house, it is not swept." "Is it you, master?" "Burst, dragon!"
It struck her as curious that she should feel so sure of this; but she admitted that it was the case. In the meanwhile he was approaching them, sitting in the driving-seat of a big machine that ripped broad furrows through the crackling sod.
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