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Captain Day carefully examined the ford with a few of the cavalrymen, and fixed the landmarks which would guide us to the shallowest places. With these precautions and by carefully following directions we got over without mishap. The water did not quite reach the bodies of the wagons, and by lifting our feet out of our stirrups we got over dryshod.
The captain and crew succeeded in getting away in the whale-boats, and the bushmen and salt-water men looted her clean of everything portable. Squall after squall, driving wind and blinding rain, smote the Minota, while a heavier sea was making. The Eugenie lay at anchor five miles to windward, but she was behind a point of land and could not know of our mishap.
The princess is rather distrait with thoughts of her father, who has just had a slight mishap." He bent forward as he spoke and touched Wanda on the shoulder. "Wanda," he said, "this young lady remembers meeting you in London." Wanda turned and, rising, held her hand over the low barrier that divided the two boxes. "Of course," she said, "Miss Cahere.
She could enumerate half a dozen instances, which, indeed, her household was obliged more or less to confirm, how, when anything had happened to the boys at ever so great a distance, she had known of their mishap and its consequences.
Some one, as we were sitting on the lawn after dinner, alluded to the mishap to papa and mama, and mama, who has never forgiven Mr. Pollingray for having seen her in her ridiculous plight, said that men were in her opinion greater gossips than women. 'That is indisputable, ma'am, said Mr. Pollingray, he loves to bewilder her; 'only, we never mention it. 'There is an excuse for us, said Mrs.
This is a frequent mishap with those who devote themselves to long meditation on a small number of texts. There are two ways of employing reasoning, one negative, the other positive; we shall examine them separately. II. The negative mode of reasoning, called also the "argument from silence," is based on the absence of indications with regard to a fact.
I cautioned him to be very careful for our sakes as well as his own, for I was still too weak to afford him any very effectual assistance in the event of a mishap: and a broken limb half-way up the mountain-side would have been death to him just at that time.
Indeed, he inwardly congratulated himself that he had not lost a whit of his political or military popularity, and that the mishap was one of those peculiar interpositions of Providence which may occur in the life of any great man.
The acting commander of the Bellevite for such the middy was, and no one disputed his authority began to be very nervous at the non-appearance of the enemy. He was afraid that some mishap had befallen the Vampire; either that she had gone to the bottom or got aground, though he had heard Captain Carboneer say that he was a pilot for this part of the river.
It may sound monotonous to the reader at times, but I assure you, we never, for one minute, got accustomed to the pangs of hunger, the beat of the rain, or the ache of our tired legs, and the gripping, choking fear that through some mishap we might be captured.
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