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It was getting late; the darkness of the jungle became thicker and thicker, though the April sun was still scorching the open meadow. At last in desperation, I tried my only remaining tune, not being very proficient on the flute. For a while nothing happened. I played so intently that I paid attention to nothing else and was greatly startled to hear a noise as if someone were pulling on a rope.
By the time the scene is reached, nothing is wanting to its opportunity; the action is ripe, the place is resonant; and then the incident takes up the story, conclusively establishes one aspect of it and opens the view towards the next.
Is war the only thing a nation enters upon in which the cost is never to be reckoned? Is it nothing that in twelve months you have sacrificed 20,000 or 30,000 men, who a year ago were your own fellow-citizens, living in your midst, and interested, as you are, in all the social and political occurrences of the day?
Chris bowed slightly as the prelate went past him briskly towards the table where Sir James was now standing up, and searched his features eagerly for an omen. There was nothing to be read there; his smooth large-eyed face was smiling quietly as its manner was, and his wide lips were slightly parted. "Good-day, Master Torridon; you are in good time.
He has flashes, nothing more than flashes, of melancholy. . . . It is in reading the verses of Clement Marot that we have, for the first time as it seems to me, a very clear and distinct feeling of having got out from the circumbendibus of the old language, from the Gallic tangle.
"What have you got to say, Hamlin?" "Nothing." "Well, yer better. Yer in a mighty bad box, let me tell yer," angered by the other's indifference. "What was the row about?" The cavalryman stood straight, his face showing white in the glow of the lantern. "I told you before I had nothing to say. I will talk to-morrow," he returned quietly. "I submit to arrest."
It seems probable that within the early future newspaper composition will very generally be done by machinery. It has been suggested to me that many of my hearers this evening know little or nothing of the processes of the printer's art, and that some exposition of it may interest a considerable portion of this audience.
Beneath your cuirass must beat a noble heart; you are an old General who knows nothing of the tricks of crime." Richelieu smiled; this mistake flattered him. "I heard you ask for the Cardinal; do you desire to see him? Did you come here to seek him?" The girl drew back and placed a finger upon her forehead. "I had forgotten it," said she; "you have talked to me too much.
We will hold to our Elector and our religion; we will not suffer and submit to our Elector's being any longer in dependence upon Emperor and empire, and nothing at all but a powerless tool in Schwarzenberg's hands. We want a free Elector, who has courage and power to defy the Emperor himself, and league himself with the Swedes against him.
"We wish nothing better than to do so," we said, to humor him, "for we know you are a very busy man, and we will not keep you a moment longer than is absolutely necessary. Would you like to have all the questions at once, or would you rather study them one after another?"
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