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As for himself, possession of this paper meant that pitfalls were digged for his every step. If ever the British found cause to suspect him, his certain portion would be to face a firing squad in dusk of early day.
John Derringham thought her superb. If he had been really in love with her, he might have seen through her and not cared just as if she had not attracted him at all, he would certainly have taken her measure and enjoyed laying pitfalls for her. But as it was, his will was always trying to augment his inclination.
Many of the attempts made at rendering the names of Palestinian place-names in European books are simply grotesque. The following are the chief pitfalls: Confusion of the vowels, the pronunciation of which is obscure. The consonant 'ain, to which the untrained European ear is deaf, and which in consequence is often omitted.
Four years of court imprisonment succeeded, and the young King of Navarre, though proof to the artifices of his gossip Guise, was not adamant to the temptations spread for him by Catherine de' Medici. In the harem entertained for him in the Louvre many pitfalls entrapped him; and he became a stock-performer in the state comedies and tragedies of that plotting age.
It should not be denied that he did not always escape the pitfalls of such a method of treatment, the faces becoming sleek and prim, with a smirk of sexless religiosity which hardly eludes the artificial or even the hypocritical; on other minds, therefore, and these some of the most masculine and resolute, he produces little genuine impression.
In 1864, for instance, he "floundered all the summer among the extinct mine-shafts of Scotch politics the most damnable set of pitfalls mortal man was ever set to blunder through in the dark." His study opened on the garden, from which the sea-view is one of the finest in England. Froude loved Devonshire folk, and enjoyed talking to them in their own dialect, or smoking with them on the shore.
A prize court is filled with pitfalls of the kind, but the diplomacy of Secretary Hay, backed by the prestige of the United States and a reciprocal feeling of friendship between the two nations, was able to avoid all such questions by inducing Great Britain to agree upon a settlement without compelling the claimants to go into the prize court.
"Poor devil!" said Lord Newhaven, putting the letter, not in the post-box at his elbow, but in his pocket. "Loftus and I did him an ill turn when we pulled him out of the water." The letter took its own time, for it had to avoid possible pitfalls.
The poison kills the fishes, and brings them to the surface, when they can be collected by hundreds, but does not injure them for eating. Like the black wood-dogs, the Bushmen often in fits of savage frenzy destroy thrice as much as they can devour, trapping deer in wickerwork hedges, or pitfalls, and cutting the miserable animals in pieces, for mere thirst of blood.
As they had heard in that beautiful Lesson this morning, God had set bounds, the bounds of marriage, within which man should multiply; within those bounds it was his duty to multiply, and that exceedingly even as Abraham multiplied. In these days dangers, pitfalls, snares, were rife; in these days men went about and openly, unashamedly advocated shameful doctrines. Let them beware.
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