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Louis was in a higher state of grace than she could have claimed to be in my time. But now that I canvass the figures narrowly, I suspect that the telegraph mutilated them. It cannot be that there are more than 150,000 Catholics in the town; the other 250,000 must be classified as Protestants.
On we struggled; the mutilated bodies of the leading files almost filling the way.
Tom's first act was to feel first of one arm, then the other. Having satisfied himself that neither of these members were mutilated he reached down to his legs. "Why, they're all right, too," he murmured. "I wonder what they did to me? That's certainly, chloroform I smell, and my head feels as if some one had sat on it. I wonder " Quickly he put up his hands to his head.
Many a lagging craft fell into the enemy's hands, when, as a matter of course, the men, women, and children, on board, were horribly mutilated by the Spaniards, and were then sent drifting in their boat with the tide their arms, legs, and ears lopped off up to the city, in order that the dangerous nature of this provision-trade might be fully illustrated. Yet that traffic still went on.
"Why?" asked the judge. One would have said the whole room breathed the question. "They had mutilated her," whispered Colina. "Her her tongue was cut off." A single low sound of horror was forced from the crowd. The prisoner half rose with a choking cry and collapsed with his head in his arms on the table. Denholm, as pale as a sheet, flung an arm around his shoulders.
They are generally found in sets of three; but unfortunately they have been much mutilated, and all the examples remaining are headless. The Deae Matres would seem to correspond in some degree to the Roman Ceres and the Greek Demeter, the bountiful givers of the fruits of the earth.
The same trumpet that announces the decease of Christian, will sound the proclamation of civil contention." "Will England stand aloof," observed Captain W , "and see Denmark mutilated? I think not." "I hope not," said the Baron de B ; "but as years roll on, who can divine the political condition of any country.
His head was almost severed, and he had been disembowelled. Most of the lower storey rooms had doors opening into this court; across the threshold of one lay the corpse of a female servant, mutilated in an unspeakable manner. The household establishment consisted in all of some ten or twelve persons, and eight of them I found lying murdered in different parts of the premises.
Harold had one of these stewards murdered by an assassin, and returned with a large force to Thurso to punish the Caithness folk; and, when Bishop John interceded for the people of his diocese, Harold, whom he had irritated by refusing to collect the Peter's Pence which the Earl had given to Rome, would not listen to him, but mutilated him, probably in 1201, nearly blinding him, and all but cutting out his tongue, though afterwards the bishop regained his sight and speech in some measure, and may have lived to administer his diocese till 1213.
He heard me through, still staring; then he said: "'My dear fellow, if you are Dave Duck I ought to inform you that I buried you two months ago. I was out with a small scouting party and found your body, full of bullet-holes and newly scalped somewhat mutilated otherwise, too, I am sorry to say right where you say you made your fight.
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