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A ledge of park, narrow as a terrace, slants to the water's edge, and of summer nights lovers drag their benches into the shadow of trees and turn their backs to the lampposts and to the world.
The people were cheering him from every part of the square. Women waved their hands from balconies and housetops, and men climbed to awnings and lampposts and shouted his name. The officers and men of the landing party took note of him and of this reception out of the corner of their eyes, and wondered. "And what had I better do?" asked the commanding officer.
When I tell ye to halt, stop dead like lampposts; when I say, "Charge!" go at them like wild cats, and drive the Frenchmen into the sea! `Hurrah! yelled the crowd, for they were wild with excitement and rage, and only wanted a leader to organise them and make them formidable.
So much of the government of the country will be done outside the House. Stephen has everything mapped out. You are going to be Prime Minister." Tallente left early and walked homeward by the least frequented ways. A soft rain was falling, but the night was warm and a misty moon made fitful appearances. The rain fell like little drops of silver around the lampposts.
"It is a very curious shape," said Jane. "It's almost like" she moved back a step to get a better view of it "it's almost like a dragon." "It's much more like the lampposts on the Thames Embankment," said George, who had noticed a curly thing like a tail that went twisting up the North Pole. "Oh, George," cried Jane, "it is a dragon; I can see its wings. Whatever shall we do?"
It looks as though Suzanne had caught a touch of dis-relish for les aristocrates, whose necks the songs of the day were promising to the lampposts.
When I tell ye to halt, stop dead like lampposts; when I say, "Charge!" go at them like wild cats, and drive the Frenchmen into the sea! 'Hurrah! yelled the crowd, for they were wild with excitement and rage, and only wanted a leader to organize them and make them formidable.
No heart is untouched by the mysterious influence.... The country is honeycombed with red propaganda but there is a good supply of ropes, muscles and lampposts... while this world moves the spirit of liberty will burn in the breast of man." The man who found these phrases in his mind needs help.
There is nothing whatever except the tall, flat houses, the pavements, the lampposts, the grimy thoroughfare and the silence. The sensation of the visitor is that anything might happen here, and that no one would be the wiser. There is an air of horrible discretion about these houses. Mrs.
"By the nose of Napoleon! what can have become of the little minx? lost or stolen? most probably the latter, for in this infernal city a pretty girl like her, so unprotected and so poor, can no more traverse the streets with safety, than can a fine fat goose waddle into the den of a wolf unharmed. Curses on these lampposts, I am always breaking my neck against them bah!
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