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"'Come back directly you are wanted here; I am in trouble, as usual; and T.W. " Here the Squire took a step backwards, and set himself against a tree. "The sun comes in one's eyes," he said, rather feebly. "There's something poisonous in the air today. Here's Gerald going out of the Church; and here's Frank in Jack's secrets. God forgive him!
A little later and he flew to the vine, picked off one berry and ate it, took another one in his mouth and then returned to his post, while she followed his example. Both chirped and pronounced the berries good, though up to that time the members of the household had supposed they were poisonous.
We conceive Prout, an eminent authority, to be near the truth, when he says of tobacco, "The strong and healthy suffer comparatively little, while the weak and predisposed to disease fall victims to its poisonous operation."
Day in and day out they labored, officer and men. Sawing off stumps under the water, knocking poisonous snakes by scores from the branches, while the river rose and rose and rose, and the rain crept by inches under their tent flies, and the enemy walked the parapet of Vicksburg and laughed. Two gunboats accomplished the feat of running the batteries, that their smiles might be sobered.
"It reminds me of the time I struggled to liberate a nation from the poisonous breath of a tyrant's clutch. 'Twas hard work. 'Tis strainin' to the back and makes corns on the hands." "I didn't know you had ever lent your sword to an oppressed people," murmured Atwood, from the grass. "I did," said Clancy; "and they turned it into a ploughshare."
But the rigorous conditions of the Method of Difference are not yet satisfied; for we cannot be sure that these unpoisonous bodies agree with the poisonous substances in every property, except the particular one, of entering into a difficultly decomposable compound with the animal tissues.
Shall the world and its pleasures draw off your attention from your duty when so much is at stake? or, will you leave your child to glean knowledge as best it can, thus imbibing all principles and all habits, most of them unwholesome, and many poisonous? You can decide you, the mother.
And to be, that is imperative. Do not then close your eyes to the agonizing Sphinx, but look her in the face and let her seize you in her mouth and crunch you with her hundred thousand poisonous teeth and swallow you. And when she has swallowed you, you will know the sweetness of the taste of suffering. The way thereto in practice is by the ethic of mutual imposition.
Wretched should I be, were any one to suppose me capable of listening, without horror, to your infamous proposal! Your ideas are poisonous; your language horrible! 'Well, Madame, retorted he, 'all I can say to that is, that I am really sorry for you!" The amiable Josephine was sobbing whilst she described this scene to me, and I was not insensible to the indignation which she felt.
He hated Warden, but it was with something of the passion a man feels who treads upon a poisonous reptile that attacks him. He meant to be generous in the moment of victory. Those men Warden, Perry Haughton, Hatfield, and the officials of the railroad company had performed according to their lights, using whatever power and influence was at hand to gain their ends. But they had failed.
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