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By their marvellous end they unconsciously erected the most beautiful monument to their mistress; for what genuine goodness and lovableness must have been possessed by the woman who, after the greatest reverses, made it seem more desirable to those nearest to her person to die than to live without her!"
The captain, accompanied by three gun-room officers, Rayner and another midshipman, and twenty men, landed at the nearest spot where the boats could put in, and proceeded overland in the direction from which the sound of the guns had come. Again and again they boomed forth through the midnight air. Solemnly they struck on the ear, telling of danger and death.
The guns flashed fiercely through the yellow cloud; and the Confederate force was but a handful. Three brigades had been summoned from the fords; but the nearest was four miles distant, and many of the troops upon the plateau were already half-demoralised by retreat. The generals set themselves to revive the courage of their soldiers.
We are speaking, however, of such friends as we have before our eyes, or as we have seen or have known by report, of such as are found in common life. It is from these that we must take our examples, especially from such of them as make the nearest approach to perfect wisdom.
"I should think you'd get some clothes like Hepsey's," he began. "I'll wager, now, that you haven't a gown like that in your entire wardrobe." "You're right I haven't. The nearest approach to it is a tailored gown, lined with silk, which Hepsey thinks I should wear wrong side out." "How long will the coast be clear?" "Until nine o'clock, I think. They go to church in the evening."
"They won't go on!" she cried at him harshly. "I can't make them! It is death for them here, but all they will do is to sit down! It is maddening! If they must die " She leaped to her feet and drew an automatic pistol. "Bandika!" she cried. "Take your loads! Quickly!" She threatened the man nearest her. He merely stared, his expression dull with the infinite remoteness of savage people.
The nearest approach to the hide of the hippopotamus is that of the rhinoceros; but this is not so tough or so durable, and it is inferior in other qualities. The value of the hippopotamus is incalculable. Whilst alive, we can extract from him a powerful electricity.
She was hurrying away when I stopped her. "He said he would send for you the moment he was dressed." "He said he would send for me!" she repeated in amazement. "Then he is awake again, and conscious? I had no idea he was so well as that! O Malcolm!" She sat down on the nearest chair and began to cry. I felt overcome myself.
You say that the system the Red Republicans would have established in France would have been the nearest possible approach to our own. It is possible, I think, that we may be tending towards the like issues.
Deerfoot for the first time noted what was said. He lifted his head from his elbow and sat upright. "Taggarak was there; Deerfoot saw him," he quietly remarked. "Yes; Mul-tal-la passed near him. The chief kept by himself and spoke to no one. He was on the side nearest the wood. Just before the last race was won he turned away and went back to his lodge."
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