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The final touch to the face is the deep carmine spot on the lower lip. The robing then begins. And what beautiful robes they are! the softest silks, over which are worn in summer the most delicate of embroidered grenadines, or in winter, rich satins lined with costly furs, each season calling for a certain number and kind.
The islands of St. Peter and Miquelon were given them as a shelter for their fishermen, but without permission to raise fortifications. The islands of Martinico, Guadaloupe, Mariegalante, Desirada, and St. Lucia, were surrendered to France; while Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago, were ceded to England.
Most people are half afraid of him; for he's one you'll get the blunt truth from, if you never got it before. But come, there's the gong, ugh! how they batter it! and we must get through tea and out upon the balcony, to see the sunset and the 'purple light. There's no time now, girls, for blue grenadines; and it's always vulgar to come out in a hurry with dress in a strange place." And Mrs.
"But you'll go in, won't you? 'T isn't likely they dress much here, though Ginevra Thoresby always dresses. Elinor and I could just put on our blue grenadines, and you've got plenty of things in your other boxes. One of your shawls is all you want, and we can lend Leslie something." "I've only my thick traveling boots," said Leslie; "and I shouldn't feel fit without a thorough dressing.
It is one of the Grenadines one of the Windward Islands. Yonder, dim and blue, are others of the Grenadines. There are quantities of Grenadines, but the majority are out of sight. I have often wondered what these islands are for now, you see, I am wiser. This one at least is for you. Sooner or later some simple native will come along and take you off.
When the diplomats of England and France at last discovered, in some mysterious manner, that it had "pleased the Most High to diffuse the spirit of union and concord among the Princes," the world was informed that, as the price of "a Christian, universal; and perpetual peace," France would cede to England what had remained to her of Nova Scotia, Canada, and all the possessions of France on the left bank of the Mississippi except the City of New Orleans and the island on which it stands; that she would cede also the islands of Grenada and the Grenadines, the islands of St.
Then, if I fail to fall in with her, it may be worth our while to overhaul the Grenadines there must be several small islands among them well adapted as a rendezvous for a pirate, and there is just a possibility that we may find her there.
The fellow regarded me in stupid surprise for a moment, as though he could not understand his failure to terrify me by his vaguely awful threat; then, with a gesture that I interpreted as indicative of his final abandonment of me to the destruction that I seemed determined to court, he said "Do you know anything of the Grenadines, senor?"
Suddenly, on looking out of the front windows of the dining hall, a large ship was seen under full sail, coming with a fair wind from the direction of the Grenadines and steering towards LaBaye. "That is the Corunna," shouted one of the gentlemen present. "Hurrah!" "Not the Corunna," remarked Mr. Stevenson. "The Corunna is not so good looking and is of a different model.
Vincent, Harvey and Abercrombie came into Carriacou in the Grenadines with a gallant armada; seven ships of the line, thirteen other men-of-war, and nigh 8000 men, including 1500 German jagers, on board. On the 16th they were struggling with currents of the Bocas, piloted by a Mandingo Negro, Alfred Sharper, who died in 1836, 105 years of age.
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