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The trouble and expense of defending the state in England lay equally upon all the land; and it was usual for every five hides to equip a man for the service. See Spellm. of Tenures, p. 2. Con. A sheep, by the laws of Athelstan, was estimated at a shilling; that is, fifteen pence of our money. Silk and cotton were quite unknown: linen was not much used.
Have I spared my blood in fighting before the red walls and towers yonder? No, by my fore man Roland, no, no, a thousand times no." "Who denies it, Meister Allerts? But tell me, what do you mean by your cry: Roland, my fore man?" "Another time, Wilhelm; you mustn't interrupt me now. Hear my story about where the worm hides in me.
Exile, confiscation, and ordinary execution were mild measures with Maximin. Some of the unfortunates were clubbed to death, some exposed to wild beasts, some sewed in the hides of slaughtered animals and left to perish.
Our part of the bargain is complete; delivery has been made; and when the countries from which we receive sugar, coffee, tea, and hides have placed on their free lists such of our products as shall be agreed upon as an equivalent for our concession, a proclamation of that fact completes the transaction; and in the meantime our own people have free sugar, tea, coffee, and hides.
And she sends for Thessala, her nurse, whom she had brought from the land where she was born. And Thessila came forthwith, for she neither lingers nor delays: but she knows not why her mistress sends for her. Fenice asks her in private conference what she counsels and what seems good to her. She neither hides nor conceals from Thessala even the smallest part of her thought.
His father remembered when they had killed cattle for their hides and tallow, leaving the meat to the coyotes. But now, each spring, a dozen men, like himself, under a herd boss, would drive five thousand head to Leavenworth, putting them through ten or twelve miles a day over the Abiline trail, keeping them fat and getting good prices for them. There was plenty of room for the business.
Every man of them was a hunter, used to spear and shield, and the skins of deer and the shaggy hides of wolves were their garments; their dwellings were built of well-fitted oak.
When they are well trained at it, scraps of paper, white beans, corn, or even chalk marks on trees, instead of sticks, will serve for trail; and still later holes prodded in the ground with a sharp pointed cane will do. This game can be played in the snow; in which case, the track of the Guide, when he hides the treasure, takes the place of the sticks.
The number of raw hides required for this purpose was immense, and to obtain them the Monguls slaughtered vast herds of horses and cattle which they plundered from the enemy.
"Well, what's to be done now?" "Cover the boat. There, you can set the fat to melt, and sew these hides together. Two and two, do you see? and then sew the pair at the necks. There is plenty of catgut yonder." "Don't talk to me as if I was a dog!" says Frere suddenly. "Be civil, can't you." But the other, busily trimming and cutting at the projecting pieces of sapling, made no reply.
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