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And now here are you met together, the elite of every city, the true soul of Macedonia; the town which lodges you is the chief of all, little enough resembling Pisa, with its crowding, its tents and hovels and stifling heat; there is as great a difference between this audience and that promiscuous crowd, mainly intent upon mere athletics, and thinking of Herodotus only as a stop-gap; here we have orators, historians, professors, the first in each kind that is much in itself; my arena, it seems, need not suffer from comparison with Olympia.
"Why, it is charming!" said Dinah to her mother. All the good folks of Sancerre sat with eyes as large as five-franc pieces. "Go on, I beg," said the hostess. Lousteau went on: "Your key " "Have you lost it?" "It is in the arbor." "Let us hasten." "Can the Cardinal have taken it?" "No, here it is." "What danger we have escaped!" Olympia looked at the key, and fancied she recognized it as her own.
“The squadron then proceeded to the attack, the flag-ship Olympia, under my personal direction, leading, followed at distance by the Baltimore, Raleigh, Petrel, Concord, and Boston, in the order named, which formation was maintained throughout the action. The squadron opened fire at 5.41 A. M. “While advancing to the attack two mines were exploded ahead of the flag-ship, too far to be effective.
Naturally, too, he accepted commissions for athlete statues; five such are mentioned by Pausanias as existing at Olympia. Finally, he is credited with a statue of a tipsy female flute-player. It is Pliny who puts us in the way of a more direct acquaintance with this artist than the above facts can give.
The sound, from twenty to forty miles wide, with inlets and harbors extending full two or three miles into the land, is the most beautiful sheet of water I ever have seen. I go to Port Madison this afternoon, and on Monday to Port Gamble; back to Olympia for the Territorial Convention Wednesday; then down to Portland and thence southward.
The crowd of people watching the games often grew so excited that they carried the victor all around the grounds on their shoulders, while Olympia fairly re-echoed with their cries of joy. We are also told that one old man called Chi´lo was so happy when his son laid at his feet the crowns he had just won, that he actually died of joy, thus turning his son's happiness into bitter grief.
Fairfax was not an unkind or negligent husband, but there was something wanting. She was as unlike Olympia as possible very plain and simple in her tastes and appearance. She kept much at home, and never sought to shine in society for which, indeed, she was not fitted but she was a good woman and fond of her children."
In half a dozen or more instances the sad-eyed mothers were thrown into tremulous hope by the tidings of their darlings' whereabouts. But for Olympia and Aunt Merry there was no clew. No such names as Sprague or Perley were recorded in the fateful pages of the hospital corps. But there were several badly wounded in the hospital at Manassas, where fuller particulars were accessible.
Under Commodore Dewey in the Far East were two gunboats and four small cruisers, the best of them the fast and heavily armed flagship Olympia, of 5800 tons. The Battle of Manila Bay With this latter force the first blow of the war was struck on May 1 in Manila Bay.
"This isn't Hammersmith. Turn to the left, into the Vauxhall Bridge Road, and ask a policeman the nearest way to Olympia." "Be not angry with thy slaves!" said the head driver, in excellent English. "We are here by command of Fakrash-el-Aamash, our lord, whom we are bound to obey. And we have brought thee these as gifts."
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