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Noisy little good-for-nothing tike, ain't you, Fret?" Mistress Kitty was put back a little by two such signal failures. There was another chance, however, to make her point, which she presently availed herself of, feeling pretty sure this time that she should effect a lodgement. Mrs.
The next day, he returned the original key to Brus, telling the old man that he had not used it after all, since mature reflection had convinced him of the folly of his contemplated adventure, especially in one whose youth was past, and in whose joints the night damp of the Thames might find lodgement for rheumatism.
Six hundred were killed, two hundred taken prisoners, including many officers, and a great number were drowned in the Shannon. Then the English made a lodgement within ten paces of the bridge-foot; and the Irish, seeing themselves surrounded on all sides, determined to capitulate.
Instead of exposing to Indian contact, as heretofore, a clearly defined frontier line, upon two or three faces, our settlements have penetrated the Western country in every direction and from every direction, creeping along the course of every stream, seeking out every habitable valley, following up every indication of gold among the ravines and mountains, clinging around the reservations of the most formidable tribes, and even making lodgement at a hundred points on lands secured by treaty to the Indians.
Four hundred and three torpedoes, equipped with anti-magnetic apparatus darted out. One hundred and four passed the struggling fields. One found lodgement on a Miran ship, and crushed in a metal wall, to be stopped by a bulkhead. The Chief engineer watched his power declining.
If public opinion will not avenge our cause, violence and tumult will not help us." The irony of fate had decreed that this admirable sentiment should not find a permanent lodgement in the writer's breast. Life and Times of Mackenzie, vol. i., p. 311. See Lord Goderich's despatch of 8th November, 1832.
A real and sunny pleasure befell Laetitia in the establishment of young Crossjay Patterne under her roof; the son of the lieutenant, now captain, of Marines; a boy of twelve with the sprights of twelve boys in him, for whose board and lodgement Vernon provided by arrangement with her father.
'But where are you to go, papa? the poor girl cried, close on sobbing. 'I shall get employment of some sort, said he. 'I was saying I want it, I need it, I require it. 'You are saying three times what once would have sufficed for, said Lady Camper, and she asked him a few questions, frowned with a smile, and offered him a lodgement in his neighbour's house.
Nevertheless, they persevered with uncommon resolution; and though repulsed on every other side, at length made a lodgement in the queen's redoubt, which had been greatly damaged by their cannon.
The Indians continued to plunder and massacre the British subjects with impunity, and were countenanced by the French government in that country, who now strengthened their lodgement on the neck of the peninsula with an additional fort, distinguished by the name of Bayeverte; and built a third at the mouth of St. John's river, on the north side of the bay of Fundy.
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