United States or Djibouti ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The Turks held it in much later times against Buonaparte; they were helped by an Englishman, Sir Sydney Smith, and if Acre is celebrated for nothing else it should be celebrated for the fact that it held out for sixty-one days against Buonaparte, who was in the end obliged to give up and go away!
We were then near the highest point of Mount Tabor; we had crossed some of the richest land imaginable, and seen many fig and almond trees, pomegranates, prickly pears, &c. We reposed under an almond tree till our luggage came up. The servants had mistaken the way, and one of the janissaries was obliged to go in search of them.
"Thank you, Father. Obliged to you, too." He turned his dimming eyes upon the Boy, who wrote his name in witness. "You going to Minóok?" "I hope so." The Father went to the writing-table, where he tied up and sealed the packet. "Anybody that's going to Minóok will have to hustle."
"You have had a great deal of trouble since since then," he said, and then he was afraid he had wounded her, or called up painful memories. But she had lived over all that. "Yes, and you also. How is it that you're working here?" "It is a long story, Miss Sterling. My father lost his money and I was obliged to go to work. A very good thing for me. The Bishop says I ought to be very grateful. I am.
A long speech from Lord Eldon, containing no argument, and both flat and bad. Then a speech from Lord Harrowby, long and sensible; but heavily delivered and not wanted. A long speech from Lord Lansdowne, still less wanted, and very dull. The Duke was obliged to say something civil to the Whigs, but he did it sparingly, and contre coeur. We had a majority of 104.
That the said Warren Hastings, having in this manner purchased a commodity for which he said there was no sale, and paid for it with money which he was obliged to borrow at a high interest, was still more criminal in his attempt, or pretended plan, to introduce it clandestinely into China.
"Hasn't your situation forced you to lie already? When the child asks why her father and her governess have left us, haven't you been obliged to invent excuses which are lies? If the man who was once your husband isn't as good as dead to you, I should like to know what your Divorce means! My poor dear, do you think you can go on as you are going on now?
Some are undoubtedly paid, but others will distress their families for weeks by this celebration of their new discoveries, and must, after all, like our intoxicated philosopher, be obliged to return "to work again to-morrow."
His body is placed at the door of this convent, to receive burial at the hands of its inmates, the survivors of the encounter being obliged to separate and secure their safety by immediate flight.
Monseigneur can't run now, no more can I; but monseigneur throws the disc as nobody else can throw it. And when he does deal a blow, oh, that proves a misfortune!" "How so?" "Yes, monsieur, we were obliged to renounce the cestus. He cracked heads; he broke jaws beat in ribs. It was charming sport; but nobody was willing to play with him." "Then his wrist " "Oh, monsieur, firmer than ever.
Word Of The Day