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This was the first time he had heard the particulars concerning that game, although on Saturday the surprising information had been telephoned to Oakdale that Wyndham had been barely able to squeeze out a precarious victory on her own grounds. As Eliot had stated, the Clearporters were batters to be feared, and Phil was now in no condition to be unruffled by this menace to his prowess.

'This new doctrine, says Leslie, 'of making hell precarious doth totally overthrow the doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ. Of this particular inference, which would legitimately follow only upon a very restricted view of the meaning of atonement, there is no need of speaking.

The minds of the populace are turned from the precarious condition of things by all sorts of public amusements, such as mask balls, theatres, operas, public gardens, etc. But all this does not preserve some persons from the continual apprehension that there will be one day a great and terrific explosion.

Finally by means of signals they were able to make their condition known to French troops at some distance away. Unless they could get speedy assistance there was no hope of their holding the fort. The struggle continued more desperately than ever as the Germans realized how precarious was the French hold on the place.

Reputation is indeed a precarious test. I can think at present of nothing better than what you have chosen. I am much in want of my maps of the different parts of North America. It will, I believe, be best to send them all, carefully put up in a box which must be made for the purpose. You may omit the map of New-Jersey. The packing will require much care, as many are in sheets.

Failing, "that the Greeks should be enthusiastic about laurels that Apollo should pursue any one who could possibly turn into such a frightful plant? What do you make of Rickie?" "Oh, I don't know." "Shall I lend you his story to read?" He made no reply. "Don't you think, Stephen, that a person in your precarious position ought to be civil to my relatives?" "Sorry, Mrs. Failing.

The sheriff's key sounded in the lock of the corridor gate. "Time's up," he called. "All right; I'm coming," Alice returned. Joe stood, weak and trembling. He felt as if he had, in the heat of some great passion, rashly risked life, and more than life; that he had only now dragged his battered body back to the narrow, precarious ledge from which he had leaped, and that safety was not his.

We had reason to be concerned as to how matters would pan out for us at the beginning of the spring, for this season is always a bad one in which to start such precarious theatrical enterprises.

I can save nothing. My health is undermined and my life precarious. Last winter I never expected to quit my bed again and, as I lay in it, the thought naturally occurred of the forlorn and helpless state in which this poor little girl would be in case of my decease.

The eyes, when opened, stared up at him, wild and glaring; the ugly face bore the expression of abject fear. The man was no longer violent; he had become a child, frightened at the dark. His ceaseless babbling, his incessant cries of terror, only rendered more precarious any attempt at pressing forward through a region overrun with hostiles. But Hampton had resolved.