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'I beg your pardon, doctor but I thoucht ye was some scunnert at it; an' I canna bide Shargar to be luikit doon upo'. Luik here, he continued, going to his box, and bringing out Shargar's little heap of coppers, in which two sixpences obscurely shone, 'he brocht a' that hame last nicht, an' syne sleepit upo' the rug i' my room there. We'll want a' 'at he can mak an' me too afore we get Mr.

Smilingly Carrington folded the warrant and handed it to Yancy. "Well, what are you goin' to do about hit, Bob?" inquired Balaam. "Maybe I'd ought to go. I'd like to oblige the squire," said Yancy. "When does this here co't set?" demanded Uncle Sammy. "Hit don't do much else since he's took with the lumbago," answered Balaam somewhat obscurely.

It was nearly an hour so swift had been the terror of the scouts before a low, terrible sound of crashings and mutterings announced that the hordes were drawing near. It was now twilight, with the first stars appearing in a pallid violet sky; and up the valley could be discerned an obscurely rolling confusion among the thickets.

Within a hundred yards of the first vein of granite, the clay-slate consists of several varieties; some compact with a tinge of purple, others glistening with numerous minute scales of mica and imperfectly crystallised feldspar; some obscurely granular, others porphyritic with small, elongated spots of a soft white mineral, which being easily corroded, gives to this variety a vesicular appearance.

"Well, lemme see " She debated a moment, then reached under the table, fumbled obscurely, and came up with more money. "Now, here, here's twenty more besides that first I gave you, so you can pay the dame her money and get all fixed up again, fresh suit and clean collar and a shine and everything. No, no this is my scene; you stay out."

Does not all the world know that scholars, men of reverence, men of world-wide renown, men of every accomplishment, were tortured, and mutilated, and hung, and beheaded, in both these two reigns, for writings wherein Caesar's ambition was infinitely more obscurely hinted at writings unspeakably less offensive to majesty than this?

In the preface to the volume in which it is printed, dated three years before, he merely speaks of the narrative incidentally, but in a discourse preceding it, he obscurely alludes to the place where he found it, remarking that it was the only letter of Verrazzano that he had "been able to have, because the others had got astray in the troubles of the unfortunate city of Florence."

We should have written to you, summoned you, before, if we could have supposed or been sure; but you know these things go on so obscurely, and we acted at the very first possible moment. I wish you to understand that.

You need teaching." When she turned from the window, she found Vance watching her. He had a habit of obscurely melting into a background and looking out at her unexpectedly. All at once she knew that he had been there listening during all of her talk with Terence. Not that the talk had been of a peculiarly private nature, but it angered her.

He, Stephen, had a perception of contrasts which answered fairly well the purposes of a sense of humour, and nobody could question hers; it operated obscurely to keep them in the house.