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I may dance at your weddin', after all, sooner'n I mistrust; and so I'm goin' down to spend the day with y'r mother!" She strode over the furrow and across the weedy sod, and Gilbert resumed his ploughing. As she approached the house, Miss Lavender noticed that the secured ownership of the property was beginning to express itself in various slight improvements and adornments.
Ploughing her way through the Green Fold Clough, she climbed the steeps at the further end, and stood, breathless, on the bank of the great reservoir that lay dark in the hollow of the white hills. Her heart beat savagely and loud so loud that she heard it above the din of the storm; and cruel pain relentlessly stabbed her heaving side, while her breath was fetched in quick respirations.
Singing and shouting were suppressed, and we heard nothing but the noise of the engines, the splatter of the agitated water as it struck our hull, and the sound, getting fainter and fainter, of the Ermine ploughing to Helles. "The stage is in darkness," whispered Doe in his fanciful way. "It's the changing of the acts."
Elisha was the only one among them whose prophetical powers were not diminished. On the contrary, they were strengthened, as a reward for the unhesitating readiness with which he obeyed Elijah's summons, and parted with the field he was ploughing, and with all else he possessed, in favor of the community. Thenceforward he remained Elijah's unwearying companion.
But on this bright April day when we enter the plain of Armageddon, everything is tranquil and joyous. The fields are full of rustling wheat, and bearded barley, and blue-green stalks of beans, and feathery kirsenneh, camel-provender. The peasants in their gay-coloured clothing are ploughing the rich, red-brown soil for the late crop of doura.
He will give us waving corn, providing the ground is ploughed and sown; that is to say, He answers our request, if we will make it in the right manner He lays down certain rules on compliance with which we may secure certain blessings. Is it objected that ploughing and sowing, unlike prayer, are physical exertions made for the purpose of bringing about physical results?
"Suppose I had nothing left but that little ranch, and was satisfied to grow a few chickens and scratch a living somehow would you marry me then, Dede?" "Why, we'd be together all the time!" she cried. "But I'd have to be out ploughing once in a while," he warned, "or driving to town to get the grub." "But there wouldn't be the office, at any rate, and no man to see, and men to see without end.
"Fundamentally standeth everything still" : but CONTRARY thereto, preacheth the thawing wind! The thawing wind, a bullock, which is no ploughing bullock a furious bullock, a destroyer, which with angry horns breaketh the ice! The ice however BREAKETH GANGWAYS! O my brethren, is not everything AT PRESENT IN FLUX? Have not all railings and gangways fallen into the water?
The ploughing ceremony takes place in May and marks the beginning of the planting season. The King is represented by the Minister of Agriculture, who goes with a procession to the selected spot, and, after some religious service, takes hold of a plough which is drawn by two gayly bedecked oxen.
To-night he was reading in Revelation, and when he had finished that, he would begin, in due course, at Genesis, and go on with an iron persistency of accomplishment as methodical as ploughing a field.
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