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Keskarrah offered to us as a great treat the raw marrow from the hind legs of the animal, of which all the party ate except myself and thought it very good. I was also of the same opinion when I subsequently conquered my then too fastidious taste.
Dozens of white skulls lie about in the grass, but it is a serious matter even to touch one. I very nearly got into trouble one day by targeting my rifle upon a skull which lay two or three hundred yards away from, our tent. The customs of the Mongols are not all as gruesome as those I have described, yet Urga is essentially a frontier city where life is seen in the raw.
Time has run on a little bit since the professor suffered many agonies on a certain raw February morning, and now it is the 30th of May, and a glorious finish too to that sweet month.
We fought well for an hour, and then our men began to give on either wing, for they were, as I would have it remembered, raw levies that Odda had brought with him valiant men and strong, but with no knowledge of how to fight in line or how to hold together. And when a force like that begins to go, it is ended. Hard fought we in the centre after that.
Violent politicians are not the best raw material out of which to manufacture fortunate placemen." "The opinions do not so much matter; the expense does. I cannot afford L5000, or even L3000." "Would not Sir Peter assist? He has, you say, only one son; and if anything happen to that son, you are the next heir."
"Jerusalem!" ejaculated mine host. "You gentlemen of the army must have swingeing strong heads to dilute whiskey with raw rum." "I trust not," replied the aide, drily. When dinner was announced Brereton drew Grayson aside for a moment and whispered: "'T is a matter of life and death to me that these fellows be made too drunk to ride, Will, yet to keep sober myself.
The third period begins when the sloughs separate, usually between the seventh and fourteenth days, and lasts till the wound heals, its duration depending upon the size, depth, and asepticity of the raw area.
'Ah, those raw facts of life! I cried, still louder; for it is not often that one has a chance of impressing a Pharaoh. We must face them with open eyes and an open mind! Did you? 'I had no opportunity of avoiding them, he replied. 'I broke every convention in my land. 'Oh, noble! And what happened? 'What happens when you strip the cover off a hornet's nest?
"On the contrary," I argued, with the impudence which was now my only chance, "it was only natural. Bob was rather raw with his friend Kennerley, you see. You knew about that?" "Oh, yes." "And why they fell out?" "Yes."
This overweening confidence of youth he was asking himself earnestly was it altogether a misfortune, or but raw material out of which great things were to be made in the future? Was it not better to go forth to meet life's battle with a light heart and fearless tread than trembling and full of doubt?
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