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The feeling of their own wrongs had awakened among them a spirit of resistance; the new injury offered to their favorite pointed him out to them as their leader. Consultations were held; plans were formed; the dispositions of the great lords were sounded; and the whole nation appeared in a ferment.
The list of the barons who gathered to resist this invasion contains an unusual number of names famous in the later history of England. The leader, from his age and experience and the general respect in which he was held, was Walter Espec; the highest in rank was William of Aumale.
'To the captain, traitor, their leader answered. 'It has come at last, I thought to myself, but I said only: 'It is well. Any change from this hole is one for the better. 'Certainly, he replied; 'and it is your last shift. Then I knew that the man believed that I was going to my death. In five minutes I was standing before Cortes in his private house.
With my glasses I could see that the leader carried a fair pair of horns, but that the other three rams were small, as argali go. Lying flat, I pushed my rifle over the crest and aimed at the biggest ram. Three or four tiny grass stems were directly in my line of sight, and fearing that they might deflect my bullet, I drew back and shifted my position a few feet to the right.
The Mercutian was suspicious. "Hmm. Funny there's no sign of a struggle here. Nothing is upset." "They ran out the back way," the girl repeated tonelessly. "We'll see; but if you are lying...." He said no more, but the pause was significant in its implications. "I would not lie to the Magnificents." "Not if you are wise." He seemed to be the leader.
The Brahmin Asita says of Buddha: "This is the child which will become Buddha, the redeemer, the leader to immortality, freedom, and light."
Aristotle is the representative of the learning of antiquity in Natural Science. The great mind of Greece in his day, and a leader in all the intellectual culture of his time, he was especially a naturalist, and his work on Natural History is a record not only of his own investigations, but of all preceding study in this department.
Yet such was the state of my mind, that I welcomed the company of the outlaw leader as a relief to my own overstrained and painful thoughts; and was not without hopes that through his means I might obtain some clew of guidance through the maze in which my fate had involved me.
The girl drew away the scarf with a loud laugh and a triumphant nod and a wink to the leader, and presently the music stopped. "I must go," said Judy, more and more in dread of these strange people.
And besides it wears out your talking-apparatus to be continually opening and shutting it. How much do you generally get?" He took out his purse; it was his intention to insult them now. The other fishermen threw stolen glances at their leader. If only he did not run them aground!
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