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Our party, three in number, reached Dos Rios in the morning and began work at the station with the women who were selling there. Dr. Powell, as our interpreter, undertook the personal dealings, and our material, as was to be expected, was chiefly women.

Instead, as Colin Powell noted, the Coalition Forces cut off the head and life lines to the Iraqi Army in the field and then set about killing it. The fact that a democratically led coalition could choose not to massacre the remnants of Iraq's army during its panic-induced retreat underscores that we knew how much power we had and could employ restraint.

She has only got her living in it which is quite meritorious, but not quite the same thing." A Mr Powell, much slenderer than our robust friend is now, with the bloom of innocence not quite rubbed off his smooth cheeks, and apt not only to be interested but also to be surprised by the experience life was holding in store for him.

Her best known works are Mistress Mary Powell, which first appeared in Sharpe's Magazine in 1849, and The Household of Sir Thomas More, a delightful picture of More's home life told in the form of a diary written by his daughter Margaret. Her writings have much literary charm, and show a delicate historical imagination. Cardinal and theologian.

His instructions to close in Powell, Torbert, under Wright's direction, executed by calling in Moore's brigade to cover Buckton's Ford, on the left and rear of Crook. Powell, with the rest of his division, was left at Front Royal to hold off Lomax. Sheridan went on to Washington.

Do you think Dick Rover can catch Jackson when he is five yards behind"? "Not quite as much as that, Flapp, and he is gradually crawling up." "He won't make it, I tell you." "Perhaps he will." "I'll bet you five to one that he won't," insisted the big boy. "I won't bet any more." "You're afraid," sneered Flapp. Again Powell went down into his pocket and drew forth another dollar.

Jim Dixon's coming to tea, and if you're not here, and he wur to ask me to go out for a walk with him tonight, I shouldn't have any excuse for refusing." There could be no doubt about it that, to Tom, Polly Powell looked very alluring. She was rather older than he, and her beauty was of a highly coloured order.

Powell, was, for the time being, and whether to Milton's private satisfaction or not, the chief in command. Charles himself becomes now the central object. For now, one may say, he was left to think and act wholly for himself, and to work out by his own cogitations and conduct the rest of the long problem between him and his subjects.

The man continued his limber flight, and they jumped down and followed, firing. They heard a yell on the plain above, and an answer to it, and then confused yells above and below, gathering all the while. The figure ran on above the river trail below the bank, and their bullets whizzed after it. "Indian!" asserted Balwin, panting. "Ran away, though," said Powell. "So'd you run.

You have held his strongest city for now five weeks. There are other cities, other adventures upon which thou wilt fight again, and again and again until thou diest, Frank Drake." "There were a many dead this morning," put in Powell, the sergeant-major. "There had been a many more were't not for the friar's remedy." Drake moved impatiently. "I would your miracle of St.