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I have seen many West Coast vessels up trees, but never more than fifteen feet or so. The trade of this lower part of the Ogowe, from the mouth to Lembarene, a matter of 130 miles, is almost nil. Above Lembarene, you are in touch with the rubber and ivory trade.
The singers and musicians were dressed in the same way; and nil round about the ship a number of gentlemen danced and jumped gentlemen of good family, mind you! with heads and tails of salmon, herrings, and fishes of other sorts: most delightful to behold.
Indeed, while it is the boast of our country that no race or color or creed is persecuted here, but liberty is insured to all, still it is a fact that the only heartless treatment ever accorded the Jew in the United States came from his own people, his overseers and masters.... ... The record of the great Jews in charity is very noble; their record in industrial reforms is nil.
I hasn't had any for nigh a month, and it do be wonderful hard." The captain's reply was unrepeatable, but for such short acquaintance it was an accurate résumé of the character of the applicant. De mortuis nil nisi bonum is all very well, but it depends on the mortuis; and that man's wife and children had been short of food he had "smoked away."
I will never describe any place till I find a virgin spot untouched by Murray, and then I will send it to him, with my initials. Does such exist in Europe? "Faith, very hardly, sir." Nil intentatum reliquit. What obligations do we not owe to the accomplished compilers?
But while it is true that this one had run up quite a heavy bill in cats and committed many other enormities, the line De mortuis nil nisi bonum was kept in view, and, if nothing could be said, it was judged better to say nothing.
Their proceedings seemed to be nil, for both vessels were hove to, and after watching them for a few minutes by means of the glass, Aleck closed it, and hung about, undecided what to do.
To every one of the intelligent queries on the part of a paternal government it had been his custom, therefore, to append the magic word NIL. Banking system NIL. Meat export NIL. Cotton industry NIL. Agriculture NIL. Canal traffic NIL. Teak trade NIL. Emery mines NIL. Fisheries NIL.
I defended him, and I got him off too all saved but honour; his assets were nil, but he gave me what he had, poor gentleman, and along with the rest the key of his chambers. It's there that I propose to leave the piano and, shall we say, Cleopatra?" "It seems very wild," said Pitman. "And what will become of the poor young gentleman whom you know by sight?"
He is sharp enough to see through its contradictions and absurdities; he has no dread of losing what he never valued; his sense of antiquity, of history, is nil; and his life supplies him with excitement enough without the stimulants of 'other-worldliness. Religion has been on the whole irrationally presented to him, and the result on his part has been an irrational breach with the whole moral and religious order of ideas.
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