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He received them at the Phoenix Park, on Wednesday, the 3rd of November. They were coldly received. This may be in part accounted for by the fact, that the two or three previous years were remarkable for the great Repeal agitation; O'Connell himself having baptized the year 1843, the Repeal year.

I am sure I shall feel dreadfully when the Phoenix dies."

But O, my lord, that you could have seen my phoenix Lovel! the very prince and chieftain of the youth of this age; and not destitute of spirit neither I promise you he gave my termagant kinsman a quid pro quo a Rowland for his Oliver, as the vulgar say, alluding to the two celebrated Paladins of Charlemagne."

From teaching their appearance every 600 years originated the Egyptian legend of the Phoenix, a bird said to descend from the sun at these intervals, and, after being consumed upon the altar in the temple of On, or city of the sun called Heliopolis by the Greeks would rise from its ashes and ascend to its source.

As his cab drove up to the intricately ornamental little house of gray stone, a big touring limousine wheeled out from the curb, and he caught sight of Sanxon Orchil and Phoenix Mottly inside, evidently just leaving Ruthven. His smiling and very cordial bow was returned coolly by Orchil, and apparently not observed at all by Mottly.

I have said that Wickenburg was a small place half-way between Phoenix and Prescott, but that is not quite right. Wickenburg was situated between Prescott and the valley of the Salt River, in the fertile midst of which the foundation stones of the future capital of Arizona had yet to be laid.

Robert tip-toed to the window, and spoke through the pane that had been a little cracked since Cyril accidentally knocked it with a walking-stick when he was playing at balancing it on his nose. 'What do you mean? he said. 'There's no row. You listen; everything's as quiet as quiet. And indeed it was. The strange sweet scent grew stronger, and the Phoenix put out its beak.

So the children went in, all four of them, though they didn't like it, and stood in a large and beautiful hall adorned with Doulton tiles, like a large and beautiful bath with no water in it, and stately pillars supporting the roof. An unpleasing representation of the Phoenix in brown pottery disfigured one wall.

Thy picture, in a golden frame, hangs in the halls of the rich, but thou thyself often fliest around, lonely and disregarded, a myth "The Phoenix of Arabia." In Paradise, when thou wert born in the first rose, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, thou receivedst a kiss, and thy right name was given thee thy name, Poetry.

'Oh, THAT? said the Phoenix, carelessly 'I should say that that is the carpet. I remember the pattern perfectly. It pointed as it spoke to the floor, where lay the carpet which mother had bought in the Kentish Town Road for twenty-two shillings and ninepence. At that instant father's latch-key was heard in the door. 'OH, whispered Cyril, 'now we shall catch it for not being in bed!