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But Enid Crofton felt a little disappointed, for on Miss Pendarth's card had been written the words: "I look forward to making your acquaintance. I think I must have known Colonel Crofton many years ago. There was a Cecil Crofton who was a great friend of my brother's they joined the Ninetieth on the same day." She had rather hoped to find a kindly friend and ally in the still unknown caller.
"In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. "This present day, the twenty-ninth of January, one thousand six hundred and ninetieth year of our Lord. "Has been wickedly deserted on the desert coast of Portland, with the intention of allowing him to perish of hunger, of cold, and of solitude, a child ten years old.
The Alumbagh was accordingly held by the Fifth, Seventy-eighth, Eighty-fourth, and Ninetieth Foot, the Madras Fusiliers, the Ferozepore Sikhs, and a strong artillery force, the whole under the command of Sir James Outram.
It was not an easy task for a man in his ninetieth year, beset night and day by the winning artifices of women, to disenthral his judgment, and to consult only the good of the state in his domestic affairs.
Pretty portly, fleshy in the face, and with somewhat of a paunch, cheerful, and his senses, bodily and mental, in no very bad order, though he is now in his ninetieth year. "An old man's withered and wilted apple," quoth Uncle John, "keeps a good while." Mr. S says his grandfather lived to be a hundred, and that his legs became covered with moss, like the trunk of an old tree.
Did you forgive Donaldson four hundred and eighty-nine times, and draw the line at the four hundred and ninetieth?" "No, I never had anything to forgive him till that one thing came out. But it was a very big thing. Too big!" "Too big, eh? There was another saying of Christ's about those without sin throwing the first stone. Of course I'm sure you were without sin.
At the distance of Saturn from the centre of the solar system a given area of surface receives less than one ninetieth of the sun's heat as compared with the earth; therefore we can not conceive that any density of the atmosphere whatever would suffice to hold in enough temperature to produce ordinary clouds.
The prophet saith in the ninetieth psalm, "Scuto circumdabit te veritas eius; non timebis a timore nocturno, a sagitta volante in die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab incurso et demonio meridiano.
'For the nine hundred and ninetieth time, my beloved Margaret, I implore you on my bended knees to make me a happy man! You remember it now?" "No, indeed; I never heard such an absurd speech in my life." "That's the second story you've told to-day," says Mr. Gower, regarding her with gentle sorrow. "Oh, don't be stupid!" says Margaret. "Tell me what I want to know; about Marian.
But while the Athenians thus appeared at the ninetieth Olympiad, the Lacedæmonians were excluded by the Eleians, who controlled the festival, from an alleged violation of the Olympic truce, but really from the intrigues of Alcibiades. It was distinctly violated by the attack of Argos by the Lacedæmonians, Bœotians, and Corinthians, and the battle of Mantinea opened again the war.
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