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Was it from this hall of the siren, or was it from some later enchantment, that I, an infant Ulysses, struggled home by night along a sea road, athwart a gale that well-nigh blew me out to sea? How fierce that salt wind blew, a-yearn to drive me to the shore's edge and whirl me over!
Stephen, the right foot of Lazarus, and a fragment of the cradle of the infant Jesus, are guarded with great care and rarely exposed to the gaze of curious eyes. In the Governor's Palace the tourists spent a short time. The walls of the Council Chamber are hung with rare tapestry which has retained its color and beauty for nearly three centuries.
We shipped for Grand Bassá two citizens, a lawyer and an attorney. Mr. They did not say, 'We air a go-ahead people, they were not given to 'highfalutin', nor did they chew their tobacco. They were, however, accompanied by an extremely objectionable 'infant, aged seven, who lost no time in laying hands upon Miss M.'s trinkets, by way of returning civility.
"About as much as that infant there," Nan said, indicating a stout person of five at the next table. "Just about, I daresay. She's only six stone. What are we to do about it?" His eyes caressed Gerda, as they might have caressed a child. He would be a delightful uncle by marriage, Nan thought. They took the road to Marazion. The tide was going out.
I only wish I was the prof, now, I'd change places quickly enough. I'm afraid I'm a coward." He wondered if they guessed how scared he was; he hoped not. He pedaled around to the courts, where Cap. Smith was waiting to play tennis, and he put on an infant bravado which secretly pleased the Sophomore. After a few sets Cap. put his racket under his arm.
After the death of Gustavus, the States assembled, and the Mareschal of the Diet proposed, that the celebrated Christina, the only child of Gustavus, then an infant of very tender years, should be crowned: the Mareschal carried her in his arms into the midst of the assembly. On observing her, all were struck with her likeness to her father.
He therefore certainly knew the name of my daughter, and her French origin, and he could easily have found her again. "Had he been commissioned by Noah Jones to perform some dark mission? Had he a hand in causing the shipwreck of the 'Cynthia, or simply in pushing the infant into the sea? this they could never know for a certainty since he was dead.
The infant class hailing his appearance as a heaven-sent boon, the master was obliged to walk to the door and command him sternly away, when, retreating to the fence, he mounted the uppermost rail, and drawing a knife from his pocket, cut a long splinter from the rail, and began to whittle it in patient and meditative silence.
You are now going into the house of Hades under the secret places of the earth, and you leave me a sorrowing widow in your house. The child, of whom you and I are the unhappy parents, is as yet a mere infant. Now that you are gone, O Hector, you can do nothing for him nor he for you.
The women were dressed in tawdry colors, striped government blankets and red flannel leggins, with a profusion of colored beads about their necks, and cheap jewelry on fingers and wrists; each one with an infant strapped in a flat basket to her back. They did not beg ostensibly, but were ready to receive trinkets, tobacco, pennies, or food.
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