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He was dressed in the buckskin so dear to the Indian heart. The others were white men. The scene was complete in horror. It was the incinerated ruins of a recently destroyed Indian encampment, set in the shadow of a belt of pine woods which mounted the abrupt slopes of a great hill. The woods on the hillside were burnt out.
All women like a man who can do a picturesque thing without bothering to consider whether or not he be making himself ridiculous; and more than once in thinking of him she had wondered if perhaps possibly some day ? And always these vague flights of fancy had ended at this precise point incinerated, if you will grant me the simile, by the sudden flaming of her cheeks. The thing is common enough.
At any rate, they were married that fall. They are I believe he's pursuing his archaeological studies there living in Athens." "Together?" Minver smoothly inquired. At this expression of cynicism Rulledge gave him a look that would have incinerated another. Wanhope went out with Minver, and then, after a moment's daze, Rulledge exclaimed: "Jove!
However, I'll tell you everything after after " I looked ruefully at the shriveled black stuff now incinerated on the bottom of my skillet, adding: "but there isn't going to be any after; it's all burned up!" She had pluckily taken herself in hand by now and, following my dejected stare, cried: "Is that our breakfast? Heavens, what a calamity!
It was as if he were that being who was scared to advance beyond the back corridor leading to and from he and his brother's room at his parents home, for fear that his presence would be despised by all. He snickered at these craven impulses for a few seconds but this coarse and bitter fire of laughter quickly incinerated what was jocular within it.
Its normal register in the Paumotus was 29.90, and it was quite customary to see it vacillate between 29.85 and 30.00, or even 30.05; but to see it as I saw it, down to 29.62, was sufficient to sober the most drunken pearl-buyer that ever incinerated smallpox microbes in Scotch whiskey.
Not merely a charred, incinerated mass, the figure lay in the full appearance of life, a cast of the actual man, moulded with fineness from the white ashes of the fire!
The learned counsel escaped with his toilet properly adjusted, but his apartments were soon incinerated. Daniels house, near Seven Corners. Sintominie hotel, Sixth street. Rice house, near Rice Park. New England hotel, Third street Hotel to the Wild Hunter, Jackson street. Montreal house, Robert street. Canada house, Robert street. Winslow house, Seven Corners. American house, Third street.
When, one day, Englishmen are not allowed to walk the pavements of their cities, and their women are for the pleasure of the invaders, and the offices of the Tiny England newspapers are incinerated by a furious mob; when foreign military officers proclaim martial law from the Royal Exchange steps, and when some billions of pounds have to be raised by taxation by taxation of the "toiling millions" as well as others to pay the invaders out, and the British Empire consists of England less Dover, required for a foreign strategic tunnel and the Channel Islands then the ghosts of certain politicians and publicists will probably call a meeting for the discussion of the Fourth Dimension.
Again the planting-ground of the Illini was utterly laid waste, to mark it naught remaining but trampled grain, and heaps of ashes, and remnants of blackened and incinerated bones. By nightfall the party of prisoners had begun a wild journey through the wilderness, whose horrors surpassed any they had supposed to be humanly endurable.
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