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Men were said to have arrived, with "copper legs," who served those tremendous engines; and in alarm for the safety of his palace, capital, and treasures, the suspicious monarch still peremptorily insisted on withholding the desired license, until he should have seen the battery "with his own eyes."
He would not have failed had he been able to secure a loan from the Bank of France of a million of francs; but this loan the Government peremptorily refused, doubtless from the hostility of Napoleon; so that the banker was ruined because his wife chose to ally herself with the old aristocracy and refuse the favors of the Emperor.
This is the door you come in, an' this is the door you'll go out of." She preceded him, her head thrown up, her shoulders back. Amelia had no idea of dramatic values, but she was playing an effective part. She reached the door and flung it open, but Josiah, a poor figure in its huddled capes, still stood abjectly in the middle of the kitchen. "Come!" she called peremptorily. "Come, Josiah Pease!
Webster that if McLeod were not released New York would be laid in ashes, were repeated in the Senate by Mr. Dickinson of New York. Mr. Webster peremptorily called for all the papers relating to the negotiation of 1842, and on the sixth and seventh of April , he made the elaborate speech in defence of the Ashburton treaty, which is included in his collected works.
The writings of the prince of novelists, Walter Scott, which are universally read by other sects, are peremptorily refused to all Papists. And why? Because many of his darts are aimed at their profligate priesthood. Now if, as they tell their people, these are but slanderous attacks on their religion, surely the shafts would fall harmless on the armor of truth.
It is this wild longing it is this eager vehemence of desire for life but for life that I have no power to portray no utterance capable of expressing. At high noon of the night in which she departed, beckoning me, peremptorily, to her side, she bade me repeat certain verses composed by herself not many days before. I obeyed her. They were these: Lo!
Woe to the sutler, whatever his rank or nation, who fell foul of the terrible provost! Summary arrest, the briefest trial, and a sharp sentence peremptorily executed, in the shape of four dozen, was the certain treatment of all who offended against martial law.
She did not look up when they entered. The corn was not yet shelled, and Caleb arranged his baskets in the chimney-corner, and fell to again. Ephraim began teasing his mother to let him crack some nuts, but she silenced him peremptorily. "Set down an' help your father shell that corn," said she. And Ephraim pulled a grating chair up to his father, muttering cautiously.
That she was unwilling to go with him only served to increase his purpose of taking her, since the more unwilling she was the more would she be punished. "Citoyenne, I am waiting for you to alight," he said peremptorily. "Monsieur, I am very well as I am," she answered him, and leaning slightly from the coach "Drive on, Blaise," she commanded. But La Boulaye cocked a pistol.
"Don't go to the door!" she cried. "It's it's Courtney Thane!" "Nonsense! He'll not be coming here. Sit down. I'll inquire who it is before I open the door." "Under no circumstances are you to let him in, Mrs. Strong," ordered Alix peremptorily. "I should say not!
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