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The child bore her name, Barbara. The singer knew this. How often the affectionate grandmother had told her with sparkling eyes of her little "Babette"! The father chained to the rowers' bench among the most abominable ruffians, this loveliest of children perishing in hunger, misery, and shame what a terrible picture!
The sordid shipowner strews the coast with wreck and murdered fellow-creatures; but, thank God, the righteous shipowner along with other like-minded men sends forth a fleet of lifeboats from almost every bay and cove along the shore to rob the deep of its prey, and rescue the perishing. In the bay where the Swordfish was stranded there chanced to be a lifeboat.
For if he had indeed carried them along with him for hostages, or rather for slaves, he should not have kept them with those that were at the point of perishing, but have delivered them to the Greeks that went away.
"It would be a pity to lose such a large sum." "You are right, and I need not lose them if you will be complaisant, for they are meant for you. Allow me to shut the door." "What for?" "Because I am perishing with cold and desire, and intend warming myself in your bed." "I will never allow that." "I don't want to force you.
'Scarcely any maxim, runs one of his own, 'is true in all respects. We must take them in pairs to find out the mean truth; and to understand the ways of men, so far as words about men can help us, we must read with appreciation not only Vauvenargues, who said that great thoughts come from the heart, but La Rochefoucauld, who called the intelligence the dupe of the heart, and Pascal, who saw only desperate creatures, miserably perishing before one another's eyes in the grim dungeon of the universe.
They placed at my disposal the force necessary to secure their independence. I was bound, in duty to my fellow-citizens, to the soldiers perishing in our armies, and to the national glory, acquired at the cost of so much blood, to accept the command. The Councils assembled at St. Cloud. Republican troops guaranteed their safety from without, but assassins created terror within.
The panic, however, was but of short duration; for my brother soon expounded that they were two perishing men who came to surrender themselves; so the door was again opened and Esau Wardrop commanded to come in.
Inquiring as to the trouble, I learned that out toward the Staked Plains every sign of the Cheyennes had disappeared. Surprised and disappointed at this, and discouraged by the loneliness of his situation for in the whole region not a trace of animal life was visible, Custer gave up the search, and none too soon, I am inclined to believe, to save his small party from perishing.
He was the Burning Daylight of scores of wild adventures, the man who carried word to the ice-bound whaling fleet across the tundra wilderness to the Arctic Sea, who raced the mail from Circle to Salt Water and back again in sixty days, who saved the whole Tanana tribe from perishing in the winter of '91 in short, the man who smote the chechaquos' imaginations more violently than any other dozen men rolled into one.
Blankets won't do me no good, sir. I can't get it out of my head how perishing cold I shall be when I'm under the mould, sir; though I oughtn't to mind it when it's the will o' God. It's only till the resurrection, sir." "But it's not the will of God, Mrs Tomkins." "Ain't it, sir? Sure I thought it was." "You believe in Jesus Christ, don't you, Mrs Tomkins?"
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