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"He plunder'd all my mental pow'rs, My visage, stature, speech, and gait; And, in a word, in a few hours, He was first Adam placed in state: He took my wife, he took my name; All but his nature was the same. "Now see him hide, and skulk about, Just like a beast, and even worse, Till God in anger drove him out, And doom'd him to an endless curse. O hear the whole creation groan!
She had lost her husband; he had died, she said, of anguish, for the loss of Maria's senses, about a month before. She had feared at first, she added, that it would have plunder'd her poor girl of what little understanding was left; but, on the contrary, it had brought her more to herself: still, she could not rest. Her poor daughter, she said, crying, was wandering somewhere about the road.
And here 'tis observable, That as it is in most such Cases, the mad Councellors of this Prince, when the People begun to gather about him, fled; and every one shifted for themselves; nay, and some of them plunder'd him first of his Jewels and Treasure, and never were heard of since.
I've seen it plunder'd, taxt and soaked in blood, But out of evill you may see much good. What are my thoughts, this is no time to say. Men may more freely speak another day; These are no old-wives tales, but this is truth, We old men love to tell what's done in youth." Though this is little more than rhymed chronology, there are curious reminders here and there of the spirit of the time.
He could not tell why, until Jonas remarked to him, "If you hadn't pulled straight, your plunder'd be in the 'Pache camp 'bout now, scalp and all. It was jest a question of grit and shootin'. I'm powerful glad you made out to throw yer lead to the right spot." So was Sile, but it was not easy, somehow, for him to make up his mind that he had really killed anybody.
In this Condition, and under these Mortifications this Party of People liv'd just an Egyptian Servitude, viz. of 40 Years, in which time they were frequently vex'd with Persecution, Harass'd, Plunder'd, Fin'd, Imprisoned, and very hardly Treated, insomuch that they pretend to be able to give an account of vast Sums of their Country-Mony, levy'd upon them on these Occasions, amounting as I take it to 2 Millions of Lunatians, a Coin they keep their Accounts by there, and much about the value of our Pound Sterling; besides this they were hook't into a great many Sham Plots, and Sworn out of their Lives and Estates in such a manner, that in the very next Reign the Government was so sensible of their hard treatment, that they revers'd several Sentences by the same Authority that had Executed them; a most undeniable Proof they were asham'd of what had been done; at last, the Prince who was restor'd as abovesaid, dyed, and his Brother mounted the Throne; and now began a third Scene of Affairs, for this Prince was neither Church-man, nor Dissenter, but of a different Religion from them all, known in that Country by the Name of Abrogratzianism, and this Religion of his had this one absolutely necessary Consequence in it, that a Man could not be sincerely and heartily of this, but he must be an Implacable hater of both the other.
Never Dardanian foray had plunder'd my beeves nor my horses, Never on Phthia descending, in Thessaly's bountiful borders, Ravag'd the fruits of the field since betwixt there was many a barrier, Shadowy mountains enow, and the roaring expanses of ocean. Only to gratify thee, Dog-face! and avenge Menelaus, Mov'd us to war upon Troy; and with thee it is counted for nothing!
He, who robs the King's stores of the least bit of junk, Is hang'd while he's safe, who has plunder'd my Trunk! * There's a phrase amongst lawyers, when nune's put for tune; But, tune and nune both, must I grieve for my Trunk! Huge leaves of that great commentator, old Brunck, Perhaps was the paper that lin'd my poor Trunk!
Thump thump thump obstreperated the abbess of Andouillets with the end of her gold-headed cane against the bottom of the calesh The old mule let a f... We are ruin'd and undone, my child, said the abbess to Margarita, we shall be here all night we shall be plunder'd we shall be ravished We shall be ravish'd, said Margarita, as sure as a gun.
Their reeking limbs bestrew'd the slippery strand. Shall he for this resign his vital breath? What! shall the hero's recompense be death? But who will dare a threatening step advance, What earthly power can bear his withering glance? Should he to Zábul fired with wrongs return, The plunder'd land will long in sorrow mourn!
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