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Moran acted with unusual good-nature, in the circumstances, for she not only suffered Minnie to leave her at the commencement of the busy season, but bestowed many small presents upon her, and it was with difficulty that I avoided giving her husband an order for sufficient implements to till the whole of the Fairmead district.
"I know it just outside the ridge between the camp and the Government offices. Come along, sir," said Dally; "I'll show you the way." In a few minutes Dally led the party to a group of seven or eight tents which were surrounded by Scotch ploughs, cart-wheels, harrows, cooking utensils fire-arms, and various implements of husbandry and ironware.
The smith, in consequence of the skill, strange in the eyes of a rude people, with which he manufactured various arms and implements, was supposed to possess a measure of superhuman power, and he had thus been encouraged to advance pretensions to the character of a divinity, which were very generally admitted.
Their weapons consisted of spears, barbed and plain, brought to a sharp or broad point; woommeras, throwing-sticks, and boomerangs of several shapes, also a bundle of fire-making implements, consisting of two sticks about two feet long, the one hard and pointed, the other softer, and near one end a round hollow, into which the hard point fits.
No quarter The Castle is ours!" were the cries by which he animated his friends; the most undaunted of whom followed him close, whilst the others, with axes, spades, and other implements, threw up earth, cut down trees, hastily labouring to establish such a defensive cover in the rear of the second barricade as might enable them to retain possession of it, in case the Castle was not carried by this coup-de-main.
Such a custom is not unknown in other parts of the megalithic area. With these bodies were found large quantities of painted pottery, a few implements of copper and many of flint. Among the ornaments which the dead carried for they seem to have been buried in complete costume were several axe-shaped pendants of polished stone, precisely similar to those of Sardinia, Malta, and France.
Upon the completion of the work assigned you, you will rejoin this army. "The chief quartermaster was directed yesterday to supply you with the implements and material for the destruction of railroads obtained for General Sheridan. "HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY FORCES, Mount Sinai Church, June 21, 1864 6 P.M. "MAJOR-GENERAL HUMPHREYS," "Chief-of-Staff.
These sovereigns may have been the unconscious implements of a policy which they did not understand. But they earned their wages. There were, indeed, two moments when the great scheme came near being wrecked.
For this purpose, in many districts well-trained specialists have been appointed to study the local conditions and to recommend to the villagers such simple improvements as are within their means. These improvements may be classified under the following heads: Increase of the cereal crops by better seed and improved implements.
The color is a dark gray-brown. The entire surface, with the exception of a narrow band about the base, has been covered with ornamentation. This is executed with considerable care, and shows a great deal of ingenuity and some taste. There is apparently no feature copied from nature or from ideographic art. Two or three distinct implements have been used.
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