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The landlords, on the contrary, were losing power and prestige, and their farm labor, despite strenuous efforts, was drifting to town attracted by new and incidental work and higher wages. The mill-hands were more and more overworked and underpaid, and hated the Negroes for it in accordance with their leaders' directions.
"Shall I fetch th' dog, Miss?" more hopefully. Gillian turned to him quickly. "He bit you last time." Danny wriggled his feet and his small white teeth flashed in a wide smile. "He won't bite I again," he said confidently. "Mammy said 'twas 'cos he loved you and hated to have folks near you. She said I was to whisper in his ear I loved you too, 'cos then he wouldn't touch me.
His claims were doubtless great. Yet William might have had a more tranquil reign if he had postponed for a time the well earned promotion of his chaplain, and had bestowed the first great spiritual preferment, which, after the Revolution, fell to the disposal of the Crown, on some eminent theologian, attached to the new settlement, yet not generally hated by the clergy.
England is sending troops over to the Continent to help the Belgians!" "Ach!" exclaimed Anna. "To Ostend?" She had once spent a summer at Ostend in a boarding-house, where she had been hard-worked and starved. Since then she had always hated the Belgians. "No, no," said Mrs. Otway quickly. "Not to Ostend. To Boulogne, in France."
For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. 21. And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. 22. And ye shall be hated of all men for My name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. 23.
If you saw me break the law if you saw me stab the man I hated to the heart, you would think it must be pardoned to me." She laughed, and yet her voice was such that Anne lost her breath and caught at it again. "Ay, I should love you, sister!" she cried. "Even then I could not but love you.
Still less did he inquire who hated him or meditated his assassination. Like every genuine statesman he served not the people for reward not even for the reward of their love but sacrificed the favour of his contemporaries for the blessing of posterity, and above all for the permission to save and renew his nation. Caesar's Work
Valencia and Pancho and two or three others of the Picardo vaqueros, who hated Manuel and therefore had no love for José would be more than likely to side with him and Jack, though he honestly wished that they would not; for the more friends they had when the test was made, the greater would be the disturbance, especially since there would be wine for all; and wine never yet served to cool a temper or lull excitement.
It was in a sense a tragic room, but it had never seemed that to Becky. She came of a race of men who had hunted from instinct but with a sense of honor. The Judge and those of his kind hated wanton killing. Their guns would never have swept away the feathered tribes of tree and sky. It was the trappers and the pot-hunters who had done that.
Proscribed, excluded from mercy, the monarch's most dreaded and hated foe, this New England merchant had stood triumphantly against a kingdom's strength, and his foot now trod upon humbled royalty as he ascended the steps of the province-house, the people's chosen governor of Massachusetts.
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