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Presently a large American whaler appeared alongside of us; and we heard the Yankee swearing at his men to keep quiet, whilst he listened for the breakers. Captain Fitz Roy hailed him, in a loud clear voice, to anchor where he then was.
And on the memorable Twenty-third of June '89, he had shown the genuine audacity and resource of a revolutionary statesman, when he stirred the Chamber to defy the King's demand, and hailed the royal usher with the resounding words: 'You, sir, have neither place nor right of speech.
It is putting off our proud maturity of mind and becoming again as foolish little children in the eyes of reason. It may be remarked here that, although James hailed Bergson as an ally, Bergson cannot be classed as a pragmatist. His great assertion is that just because intellect is pragmatic it does not help us to get a vision of reality. Bergson's style of writing merits high praise.
The minister wrote to Callieres, finding great fault with the conduct of the mission Indians. Ponchartrain a Callieres, 8 Mai, 1694. While the Canadians hailed Frontenac as a father, he found also some recognition of his services from his masters at the court.
As the victorious crusaders passed through the streets, women, old men, and children, who had been unable to flee, met them, and, placing one finger over another so as to make the sign of the cross, hailed the Marquis of Montferrat as king, while a hastily gathered procession, with the cross and the sacred emblems of Christ, greeted him in triumph. Then began the plunder of the city.
Cecily was glad to see her, but the boys never hailed her arrival with over-much delight, because, since the dark began to come down early, Aunt Janet always made one of us walk down home with her. We hated this, because Sara Ray was always so maddeningly self-conscious of having an escort.
These acts were hailed as "the Magna Charta of Irish Protestantism," but so far as the vast majority of the people were concerned, they were as cruelly unjust as the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, or the edicts which banished the Moors and Jews from the Spanish peninsula.
Seeing a soldier on the road, she hailed him and asked him whither he was going. "Nowhere in pertickerler, miss." "Dost know where General Brereton is to be found?" she asked boldly, though blushing none the less for some reason. "I just seen him down ter Colonel Dayton's quarters." "Wilt favour me by taking him these flowers?"
There shall be a great pile of the heads of those who had part in this wickedness, both here and there!" "Good. Now, if you will pardon me, I'll go to give the necessary orders...." As he left the booth, he saw Hideyoshi O'Leary in front of the situation-map, and hailed him. "Harry and Hassan are getting the car re-ammoed; they dropped me off here. Want to come up with us and see the show?"
Half a year afterward he reiterated this statement with a great deal of unnecessary emphasis. He was just buttoning his gloves preparatory to starting for his afternoon drive, when an old acquaintance hailed him. "Oh, it's that fool Belmar," he muttered; "I shall have to offer him a ride. I thought he was in Paris. Hello, Belmar, when did you get back? Have a ride?" "No, thank you.
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