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As we gathered on our balcony, behind the glow of our own barrage, she gestured to us vehemently. And then, with one white arm, she began to semaphore. One arm, and then with both. Georg and I recognized it the Secondary Code of the Anglo-Saxon Army. We murmured the letters aloud as she gave them: "I am " Abruptly she stopped.
Georg Michaelis, a statesman of colorless and practically unknown quality, suspected of being a mere mouthpiece of the Kaiser, appointed to register his decrees and continue the policy of the autocracy in the conduct of the war. But many peace proposals came out of Germany during the summer and every possible German effort was made to break the solidarity of the Allies.
'Nec sum animi dubius, verbis ea vincere magnum Quam sit, et angustis hunc addere rebus honorum. Georg. iii. 289.
The conviction that one man, who was the best and noblest of his sex, might deem her a poor, unfortunate girl, but never a creature who deserved contempt, was the beam to which she clung, when the surges of her pitiable, wandering life threatened to close over her and stifle her. By Georg Ebers
By Georg Ebers While Pollux and his mother, who was much grieved, waited for Euphorion's return, and while Papias was ingratiating himself with the Emperor by pretending still to believe that Hadrian was nothing more than Claudius Venator, the architect, Aurelius Verus, nicknamed by the Alexandrians, "the sham Eros" had lived through strange experiences.
But this night who could tell what General Orders might come? Everyone's nerves were frayed; this Director demanded gruffly to know who we were. "Tell him none of his business," I put in. My own nerves were frayed, too. "Quiet!" warned Georg. "He'll hear you and it is his business if he wants to make it so. Tell him we are the Inter-Allied News, father.
'Victory! victory! men shout exultingly wherever he goes. Even in the last accursed Algerian defeat his helper was at his side; for, Adrian" here he, too, lowered his voice "without him and his wonderful power every living soul of us, down to the last boat and camp follower, would have been destroyed." By Georg Ebers
Porphyrius was sitting up, supported in the physician's arms; his eyes were open, and as they entered he greeted them with a faint smile. By Georg Ebers The spacious Hippodrome was filled with some thousands of spectators.
The master of the house was to be surprised with a song on the morning of his birthday festival. "Excellent," said Georg, interrupting his friend, "she will manage the matter admirably." "Not she alone; we can depend upon Frau Van der Werff too. At first she wanted to decline, but when I proposed a pretty madrigal, yielded and took the soprano." "The soprano?" asked the Junker excitedly.
There was a tremendous fight in these rooms one evening, which was begun in a comic way enough by Captain Georg von A , of the 4th Kônig's Dragoons a handsome, dashing young giant of a cavalry officer, who had done excellent service against the French at Gravelotte, and who was now bent on joining that ill-fated Polish Legion which was for a while the receptacle into which was swept half the scoundreldom and half the honest adventurous spirit of young Europe.
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