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Besides, to set you quite at ease, you know I have never seen mountains before, and they fill me and oppress me so much that I could not sleep; I must keep awake this first night, and see that they don't fall on the earth and overwhelm it. And now answer my questions about yourself."
"It is only a question, then, of signing the marriage-contract?" Athos bowed. "Has he chosen a wife whose fortune and position accord with your own anticipations?" Athos hesitated for a moment. "His affianced wife is of good birth, but has no fortune." "That is a misfortune we can remedy." "You overwhelm me with gratitude, sire; but your majesty will permit me to offer a remark?" "Do so, comte."
An army, however, was necessary to command the respect of Poland, and to give weight to Sweden in any negotiations for a truce or a peace. The mind of Oxenstiern, firm, and inexhaustible in expedients, set itself manfully to meet these calamities, which all combined to overwhelm Sweden; and his shrewd understanding taught him how to turn even misfortunes to his advantage.
"At least tell us their names, you provoking girl," put in Mrs. Jameson. "One rejoices in the name of Maskull, and the other in that of Nightspore. That's nearly all that I know about them, so don't overwhelm me with, any more questions." "But where did you pick them up? You must have picked them up somewhere." "But this is a cross-examination. Have I sinned again convention?
And so, if a physician were called in to see a sick child, he might see that it was in desperate danger, and that unless something could be done, and that speedily, to arrest the disease, his little patient would be dead in a few hours; and yet to say that to the poor child, and overwhelm it with terror and distress, would not be a very suitable course of procedure for averting the apprehended result.
But you made it sound to me, I mean almost as if you were rejoicing personally at the thought of the destruction, as if you were longing almost eagerly for it to overwhelm the faithless." "I see. That is what you meant by fanatical?" "Yes, I suppose so." After a long pause she said: "Nobody has told me that till now." "Perhaps others didn't feel it as I did." "I don't know.
Early in the following year the Chinese having collected a fleet of 90 large junks and 30 row-boats, advanced from three different quarters, hoping to overwhelm the British squadron; but the ships, opening their fire, soon put them to flight, when they were followed by the boats and several more destroyed. For several months no active operations took place.
Again, he was no longer free to search for her in the Province; for he was under the ban of military law there, and, unless supported by a sufficient number of bayonets, could not stem the torrent that should soon overwhelm him if he re-entered the territories of the Queen and was discovered.
I will compel you to receive me. Quack, quack, quack, when shall I get my money back? But turkeys and chickens are creatures who don't like people that are not as themselves. When they saw the new-comer and how he was made, and when they heard him crying too, they began to look black at him. 'What is it? what does he want? Finally they rushed at him all together, to overwhelm him with pecks.
"Make me happy, and I will yield to your desires, for I love you." "Tell me what I can do." "You can draw me out of the poverty and misery which overwhelm me. I live with my mother, who is a good woman, but devout to the point of superstition; she will damn my soul in her efforts to save it.
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