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That was in San Antonio, Texas, at the building called the Alamo; and in this day, when schoolboys who can describe Thermopylæ in detail know nothing of that far finer stand, it will do no harm to dwell on a proud episode ignored by most text-book histories.
The girl's eyes rested on her mother's face, then went in swift appeal to her father's. Their consternation was too obvious to be ignored. "I wore my new dress home," she remarked casually. Then with sudden recklessness: "Do you like it?" "It's it's absurd," pronounced Annabel almost with a snarl. So a mother tigress might have corrected her offspring.
It was Linda Riggs. Linda quite ignored Nan's presence behind the black horse. Nan did not refuse to go shopping every time her school friends went. The big Chicago stores appealed to her just as much as to any country girl who ever fell under their charm. In the Windy City the department stores that mammoth of modern commerce is developed to the highest degree.
Over wide sections, untitled manorial lords, "more intelligent than educated, brave but irascible, proud but overbearing," controlled all voting and office-holding. Congressional districts were their pocket-boroughs, and they ignored the common man save to use him. The system grew, instead of statesmen, sectionalists, whom love for the "peculiar institution" rendered callous to national interests.
He tucked the toad inside his underwaist and ignored its wriggling against his flesh while he squatted in the hot sunshine and watched the ants, his mind one great question. Where were they going, and what were they carrying, and why were they all in such a hurry? Buddy had to know.
He was reserved and gloomy, and though George and Victor caught several glimpses of him, and though they continued to make much of his two boys, for the younger moved about the settlement as freely as the elder, the great war chief ignored the presence of the visitors until he had been at home for several days.
"Moreover, the old tradition in this respect has never been abandoned, however much it may have been ignored or neglected by some modern writers. Edition Vivés. Paris, 1868, vol. i. Still more distinctly does Mr. "It appears, then, that Christian thinkers are perfectly free to accept the general evolution theory. But are there any theological authorities to justify this view of the matter?
His approach was entirely ignored by the men along the banks, and he sat still on the bare back of his horse for a time looking with amazement before him.
She had the steps up into her bedroom and reached down from the dusty top of the wardrobe the box which she had put there after Samuel's funeral. In handing him the box she was doing a great deed. His age was nineteen and she was ratifying his precocious habit of smoking by this solemn gift. He entirely ignored the box for several days. She said timidly: "Have you tried those cigars?"
It is this which causes him to cloud the simplicities of nature in a maze of interpretations. It is by his interpretations that he achieves the illusion of importance. Ignored by the planets, he invents the myth of mathematics and reduces the universe to a succession of fractions and Greek letters on a blackboard. "This, of course, for man the egoist.
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