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It was this that gives eclat to the jubilee year, 1265, for it was in that year that the first Parliament convened. Yet sorrow rather than rejoicing marked the year, for the horrors of civil war rent the land and the bloody battle of Evesham saddened all loyal souls. The jubilee of Edward III. came in 1376, when that monarch entered the fiftieth year of his reign.
They've put Jimmy Hawkins in charge. 'Good business! said Scott, with the first sign of interest he had shown. 'When in doubt hire a Punjabi. I worked under Jimmy when I first came out and he belonged to the Punjab. He has more bundobust than most men. 'Jimmy's a Jubilee Knight now, said Martyn. 'He was a good chap, even though he is a thrice-born civilian and went to the Benighted Presidency.
You must not sleep in the open, either in a barn or a cart-house or in a shed, in the country, or on a door-step in a town, or in a boat on the beach; and if you have no coin in your pocket you are still more diabolically wicked you are a vagrom man, and the cold cell is your proper place. This is the Jubilee year, too, of the mildest and best reign of the Christian era.
Salemina was making Jubilee sandwiches at Pettybaw House, Miss Dalziel was asleep in her room, I was being devoured slowly by curiosity, when Francesca came down without a word, walked out of the front door, went up to the main street, and entered the village post-office without so much as a backward glance. She was a changed being, then!
She wore a dress of white silk, with train of silver brocade trimmed with fur. Ornaments emeralds and diamonds; orders Victoria and Albert, jubilee Commemoration Medal, Coburg and Gotha, and Hohenwald and Grasse." "By Jove!" cried Carlton, excitedly. "I say, is that really there? Let me see it, please, for myself."
Sampson and his young German will display alternately on one, two, and three horses, various surprising and curious feats of famous horsemanship in like manner as at the Grand Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon. Admittance one shilling each person. Before you leave, Mr. Richard," she continued, with her eyes still on the sheet, "I should like to talk over one or two little matters." "Dolly !"
The yard was covered with the blue coats. Another venerable slave said: "My Lord! de year of jubilee am come." During the excitement I ran to the big house, and told the madam that the Yankees were there, and had taken my horse and every thing I had. Old Master Jack had heard the news, but was not able to come out.
When in some hour of solemn jubilee The massive gates of Paradise are thrown Wide open, and forth come in fragments wild Sweet echoes of unearthly melodies, And odours snatched from beds of amaranth, And they, that from the crystal river of life Spring up on freshened wing, ambrosial gales!
Oh! it was a day of jubilee indeed! a day of rejoicing never to be forgotten. Smiles and tears were on every face.
Wrangle and Governor Battle have both said to me that they never knew a measure to be so splendidly engineered both before the public and in the State Legislature. After the bill had been passed, and signed by the Governor, and so had become a law, and the grand Women's Jubilee had been held at Gaston, the excitement subsided.
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