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There it stood, a plexus of energies, in the midst of darkness and sleep. Eye-like, its windows peered vigilantly out into the city. A door opened to emit a voice that bawled across the way some profane demand for haste in the delivery of "that grub"; and through the shaft of light Hal could see brisk figures moving, and hear the roar and thrill of the press sealing its irrevocable message.
The cadi was about to pronounce his irrevocable fetva, when I took the liberty of interrupting this rapid course of justice. `O cadi, said I, `and ye, mollahs, whose beards drop wisdom, let your slave offer, at the footstool of justice, the precious proofs of innocence. `Produce them quickly then, thou wedded to Shitan and Jehanum, replied the cadi.
He saw clearly that it was his irrevocable destiny to remain a prisoner till dawn, or, perhaps, even late in the morning; then the smith must be fetched to file away the bars; but all that would not be done so quickly as he could think about it.
I will go to Strathleckie this afternoon; perhaps I can then judge better." "I don't want you to do anything dishonourable," said his aunt, "but, if Elizabeth likes you best, Hugo, I could speak to Mr. Heron the father, I mean and ascertain whether the engagement is absolutely irrevocable. I should like to see you happy as well as Elizabeth Murray."
"Recall thy malediction, and my dagger shall save thee from the last indignity." "Never," replied Paslew; "the curse is irrevocable. But I would not recall it if I could. As I have said, thy child shall be a witch, and the mother of witches but all shall be swept off all!" "Hell's torments seize thee!" cried the wizard, furiously.
But the cooler leaders realized the importance of union between the two parties and knew, or accurately guessed, what the attitude of Roosevelt would be. With firm hand they kept the Convention from hasty and irrevocable action. They proposed that overtures be made to the Republican Convention with a view to harmonious agreement.
However, we sinners, you know, depend upon you parsons to pull us up in time to prevent any er any very serious catastrophe! Ha! ha!" "I understand you; but for my part I have left the pulpit," said David, uttering the irrevocable words with a carelessness which he himself wondered at.
Though the ultimate blessings that must crown the consummation of your mission be undoubted, and the Divine promises given you firm and irrevocable, yet the measure of the goodly reward which every one of you is to reap must depend on the extent to which your daily exertions will have contributed to the expansion of that mission and the hastening of its triumph. Dearly beloved friends!
"As to ladies' society," he concluded, savagely, "I'll shun it hereafter till I'm grown up." Burt always attained a certain kind of peace and the power to sleep after he had reached an irrevocable decision. During the night the wind veered to the east, and a cold, dismal rain-storm set in. Dull and dreary indeed the day proved to Burt. He could not go out and put his resolution into force.
The committee returned and reported the result of their conference. The senators adhered unanimously to their first nomination, and the same delegates waited upon the president and reiterated the adherence of their friends to Colonel Burr. Whereupon General Washington, with some warmth, remarked that his decision was irrevocable; but immediately added, "I will nominate you, Mr.
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