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A pit is then sunk through the earth within the derrick, about six feet square, until the work is interrupted by water. The remaining distance to the rock is reached by driving strong cast-iron pipe by means of a battering ram. This pipe has a caliber of about five inches, with walls of one inch in thickness.
Poverty is a bad back-friend, Reuben, and that ye ken ower weel; but ill-fame is a waur ane, and that is a truth ye sall never learn through my means." "What do you mean?" said Butler, eagerly and impatiently; "or how do you connect your sister's guilt, if guilt there be, which, I trust in God, may yet be disproved, with our engagement? how can that affect you or me?"
He was sorry that the humming almost like music wouldn't come back, it was so comforting. "If you don't know what 'Oh, queen' means, what did you say 'Oh, queen' for?" persisted Danny. "I don't know," Jerry replied, at a loss. Then he brightened, "I might have heard it, sometime." "Maybe it was somebody's name?" suggested Nora. "I don't know."
A king never desires that any one of his subjects should become too conspicuous or too great, and Vang Khan would have been very glad to have diminished, in some way, the power and prestige which Temujin had acquired, and which seemed to be increasing every day. He, however, found no means of effecting this in any quiet and peaceful manner.
This doctrine appeared inexpugnable; but it now seemed to me, on retrospect, that my teachers had occupied themselves but superficially with the means of forming and keeping up these salutary associations. They seemed to have trusted altogether to the old familiar instruments, praise and blame, reward and punishment.
Some of the children were infants in the nurses' arms, but no one was too small to have a taper, and to run the risk of burning its fingers. There is nothing that a baby likes more than a lighted candle, and the church has understood this longing in human nature, and found means to gratify it by this festival of tapers.
I promise you, if you will leave me undisturbed in my own plans, that Lady Delville shall be the most devoted of your party before the season is half over: but then, the means will not be those you advise." "Why, I advised none." "Yes civility; a very poor policy." "D n it, Constance! why, you would not frown a great person like Lady Delville into affection for us?" "Leave it to me." "Nonsense!"
The European frost-weeds or Helianthemum include a group of species which are so closely allied, that ordinary botanical descriptions are not adequate to give any idea of their differentiating features. It is almost impossible to determine them by means of the common analytical keys.
Then Thomasin, whose stupor of grief had been thrust off awhile by frantic action, applied a bottle of hartshorn to Clym's nostrils, having tried it in vain upon the other two. He sighed. "Clym's alive!" she exclaimed. He soon breathed distinctly, and again and again did she attempt to revive her husband by the same means; but Wildeve gave no sign.
But they will say, man is finite and limited, God is infinite and absolute, and how can the finite comprehend the infinite? Answer: 'Those are fine words: I do not understand them; and I do not care to understand them; I do not deny that God is infinite and absolute, though what that means I do not know. But I find nothing about his being infinite and absolute in the Bible.
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