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Not only the leaves, but the twigs and branches, were rapidly twisted off by the long prehensile lips of the animals, and as greedily devoured. It was twilight as the camp had been fairly pitched; and just then two men were seen coming towards them leading a camel. They were making for the pools of water, for the purpose of filling some goatskins which were carried on their camel.
We may add, that some of the inconveniencies attending a militia will never be totally removed, while the persons drawn by lot for that service are at liberty to hire substitutes; for it cannot be supposed that men of substance will incur the danger, fatigue, and damage of service in person, while they can hire among the lowest class of people mercenaries of desperate fortune and abandoned morals, who will greedily seize the opportunity of being paid for renouncing that labour by which they were before obliged to maintain themselves and their family connexion: it would, therefore, deserve the consideration of the legislature, whether the privilege of hiring substitutes should not be limited to certain classes of men, who are either raised by their rank in life above the necessity of serving in person, or engaged in such occupations as cannot be intermitted without prejudice to the commonwealth.
But, in the end, it was Brake and Ransford stood best man for him." Bruce assimilated all this information greedily and asked for more. "I'm interested in that entry," he said, tapping the open book. "I know some people of the name of Bewery they may be relatives." The shoemaker shook his head as if doubtful. "I remember hearing it said," he remarked, "that Miss Mary had no relations.
The water had come up a half foot in the last few minutes some one Fat Joe, perhaps told him; it was sucking greedily at the piles. And in the north the ominous murmur had become a rhythmic roar. Wickersham's men were driving the river. They were singing "Harrigan, That's Me!"
He patted his fat paunch contentedly and handed the bottle to his companion. The second guard also drank deeply. Cabenza put an arm across the shoulders of each and drew their heads close while he whispered confidential scandal about Pasquale and Ramon Culvera. The two men listened greedily, eager for more.
In the space of fifty years the self-appointed Apostle of Absolutism and the self-appointed Apostle of Peace, the Augustus and the Augustulus of the regime that was wont to speak contemptuously to European Foreign Offices in the beautiful French phrases of Prince Gorchakov, have fallen victims, each after his kind, to their shadowy and dreadful familiar, to the phantom, part ghoul, part Djinn, part Old Man of the Sea, with beak and claws and a double head, looking greedily both east and west on the confines of two continents.
Whenever a small measure of flour could be discovered in the camp, twenty pounds weight were greedily purchased with ten pieces of gold: the beasts of burden were slaughtered and devoured; and the desert was strewed with the arms and baggage of the Roman soldiers, whose tattered garments and meagre countenances displayed their past sufferings and actual misery.
This morning, a bevy of negroes came down the bank from a Kentucky field; and each in turn, creeping out on a drift log, for the ground is usually muddy a few feet up from the water's edge, lay flat on his stomach and drank greedily from the roily mess. At dusk, there was again a damp chill, and for the third time we left the Doctor to keep bachelor's hall upon the beach.
"I am not very brave after all!" And going to the dresser, her knees trembling under her, she poured out some water and drank it greedily. Then she turned to him, "Do you understand?" she said with a long tense look. "Are you prepared? If you come here, you will see me suffer worse things, things a hundred times, a thousand times worse than that.
She was made for kings and princes, not for such as you!" He waited long before presenting himself in quest of the dance he hungered for so greedily afraid of her! She greeted him with a new, brighter light in her eyes; a quiver of delight, long in restraint, came into her voice; he saw and felt the welcome in her manner. The blood surged to his head; he mumbled his request.
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