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Repulsive as the thought was to one still holding to Whiggish Liberalism, though flying various Radical kites, he was caught by the decisive ultratorrent, and whirled to amid the necessity for the interference of the State, to stop the poisoning of the poor. Upper classes have never legislated systematically in their interests; and quid . . . rabidae tradis ovile lupae? says one of the multitude.
And presently flapped over me the ravens in the wake of the kites, and the great sea eagles came in screaming and went the same way, and so for all the time that I was at the ship, and until I came home." "There is a sacrifice to the Asir somewhere," I said, "for the birds of Odin and Thor have always their share." My father shook his head.
'Tis here that men are dragged to die and, being dead, do hang i' the air to rot and rot and thereby hangs a tale of wolves that howl and birds that shriek, aha! carrion crows and hook-billed kites they be well gorged since Ivo came. 'Caw! they cry, 'caw! soft child's flesh and the flesh of tender maids aha! I know I've watched I've seen!
Better would it be for you, like swallows, to fly low down than, like kites, to make lofty circles over carrion. Since it is seen how much the Imperial Authority and the Philosophic are to be revered, which must support the opinions propounded, it is now for us to return into the straight path to the intended goal.
"We were hunting Arabs, of course pot-shooting, rather, as we never got nigh enough to their main body to have a clear charge at them. Rire-pour-tout grew sick of it. 'This won't do, he said; 'here's two weeks gone by, and I haven't shot anything but kites and jackals.
"We fear," argued the disciples, "lest the carrion kite should eat the body of our Master;" to which Chuang Tzu replied: "Above ground I shall be food for kites; below ground for mole-crickets and ants. Why rob one to feed the other?" Life in China is not wholly made up of book-learning and commerce.
The little chill of it sang in my blood, and gave me a feeling of the autumn, and the dead leaves, and dead folks' bodies in their graves. It seemed the devil was in it, if I was to die in that tide of my fortunes and for other folks' affairs. On the top of the Calton Hill, though it was not the customary time of year for that diversion, some children were crying and running with their kites.
I reckon you've never heeard tell o' Greenhow Hill, but yon bit o' bare stuff if there was nobbut a white road windin' is like ut; strangely like. Moors an' moors an' moors, wi' never a tree for shelter, an' grey houses wi' flagstone rooves, and pewits cryin', an' a windhover goin' to and fro just like these kites. And cold! A wind that cuts you like a knife.
What is it?" asked Miss Bradley, as she saw him standing near her desk. "If you please my auto " "Oh, yes," and she opened her desk and handed it to him. "It is a cute little toy," and she smiled at Charlie. "You ought to see it go!" he exclaimed eagerly, for Miss Bradley was really a friend to her pupils, and she knew how to make kites and spin tops almost as good as a boy. "Here! I'll show you!"
Dimly conscious of each other, of the grazing cattle the Bromli kites, the sweet scents and rustling sounds of the bush, of each other's thoughts and that the last spoken thought among us had been Sabbath-keeping, we rested, idly, NOT thinking, until Dan's voice crept into the silence. "Never was much at religion meself," he said, lazily altering his position, "but Mrs.
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