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The Romans resolved to send embassadors to Hannibal to demand of him what his intentions were, and to warn him against any acts of hostility against Saguntum. When these Roman embassadors arrived on the coast, near to Saguntum, they found that hostilities had commenced, and that the city was hotly besieged. They were at a loss to know what to do.

Whatever may have appeared to the contrary, I give you my word, I see this more plainly every day. I do not judge you; I merely say this to have it off my mind, and I am only sorry that I did not say it all THEN " Hippolyte flushed hotly.

A man can't choose to live a life like that without dragging his family into it too." "Then he shouldn't have a family," said Mollie hotly. "He should make up his mind to be an old bachelor though I don't think there is anything worse under the sun," she added, with such emphasis that the girls giggled.

First chance I get I 'll land you, and then I 'll deal with French Pete " "No, you don't," Joe interrupted hotly. "When I leave I 'm not going to leave you in trouble on my account. So don't you try anything like that. I 'll get away, never fear, and if I can figure it out I want you to come along too; come along anyway, and figure it out afterward. What d' you say?"

"We were all grieving over the prospective demise of a young brother. And yet some consolation would have reached you, Miss Everett; love is the only pocket-handkerchief to wipe the mourner's eyes." Louise blushed hotly at the reference.

"It's the way it looks from where I sit too, and I just won't have any such trick played upon me," said Rodney, hotly. "I know what I want and what I want to do; and as long as I am a free man, nobody shall make me do anything else." "Are you going to back out?" "I am. I'll not answer to my name when it is called. I'll go back and put the other fellows on their guard, and then I'll fall out."

For a long while she kept twisting a twig in her hand; she bent her head, and uttered: 'Andrei Nikolaevitch.... I noticed at once, by the twitching of her lips, that she was getting ready to cry, and began consoling her, assuring her hotly of Andrei's devotion.... She heard me, nodded her head mournfully, articulated some indistinct words, and then was silent but did not cry.

"Do what you think is right. We are not cowards." "But I must think of you, my dear. I am responsible to your mother." He turned to Dorothy again. "How much do you want?" "How much? Oh!" She flushed hotly beneath the insult, but she chose to ignore it. "There is only one price that will purchase my silence. Tell me where Mr. Wade is?" "Bless my soul, I don't know."

It is needless to say that gentlemen of fortune, in the old sense that is, gentlemen in quest of a fortune pursued hotly or artfully after Mrs. St. John Deloraine. But as she never for a moment suspected their wiles, so these devices were entirely wasted on her, and her least warrantable admirers found that she insisted on accepting them as endowed with all the Christian virtues.

"Well, Captain Bell, much as I prefer the weapons already named, I will nevertheless consent to a change. I am ready to concede anything if I can only compel your man to fight." "Do you mean to question Captain Le Gaire's courage, sir?" hotly. "He seems to be fairly solicitous about his own safety, at least," chimed in Hardy. "Go on, Bell, and talk it over with him this is not our row."