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This was the moment to secure him. So while the first negro continued to hold the lance firm to the ground, and the other was helping me, I contrived to unloosen my braces, and with them tied the snake's mouth. The snake now finding himself in an unpleasant predicament, tried to better himself, and set resolutely to work, but we overpowered him.
Laidley assured him that he was ready to deliver the goods to that amount whenever he thought proper to send for them. Karfa was overpowered by this unexpected token of my gratitude, and still more so when he heard that I intended to send a handsome present to the good old schoolmaster, Fankooma, at Malacotta. He promised to carry up the goods along with his own; and Dr.
And overpowered by the force of Rakshasa, Kichaka reeled and fell down senseless on the ground, even like an uprooted tree. And both Yudhishthira and Bhimasena who were seated there, beheld with wrathful eyes that outrage on Krishna by Kichaka. And desirous of compassing the destruction of the wicked Kichaka, the illustrious Bhima gnashed his teeth in rage.
Curiosity, it seemed, overpowered the rest of the flock, and almost before Gunga Dass and I had time to withdraw to the tussock, two more captives were struggling in the upturned claws of the decoys. So the chase if I can give it so dignified a name continued until Gunga Dass had captured seven crows. Five of them he throttled at once, reserving two for further operations another day.
We are told that his reason being overpowered by anger he offered oblations of blood to the manes of his ancestors, standing in the midst of the sanguine waters of those lakes.
It was made a penal offense to decline an office, and the reluctant Mexicans were compelled to serve against their will. The war then waged was a cruel war, a war without mercy. Woe to the small detachment that allowed itself to be surprised and overpowered!
Hsi Jen had never, previous to this, received even a harsh word from him. When therefore she on this occasion unexpectedly saw Pao-yue gave her a kick in a fit of anger and, what made it worse, in the presence of so many people, shame, resentment, and bodily pain overpowered her and she did not, in fact, for a time know where to go and hide herself.
"I reckon she is," he faltered; "I I couldn't hear her heart and she laid right still. I expect she is dead." The ludicrous overpowered even the turn of possibility, and the little doctor said: "You just mustn't kill yourself or harm Sandy unless it is necessary, you know. If you will go out and harness my horse to the buggy, you and I will make sure."
Will delay render it less gigantic, or give us more Herculean strength to meet and subdue it at a future time? Oh, no delay breeds danger procrastination is the thief of time, and the refuge of sluggards." It is very true that insurrection is perfect madness on the part of the slaves; for they are sure to be overpowered.
These arrangements attest the marvellous foresight and care which Napoleon brought to bear on all affairs: even if the discontented generals and troops had protested against the adoption of the Empire and the prosecution of Moreau, they must have been easily overpowered.
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