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Breaking up of the cantonments and march into Spain Battle of Vittoria Lawrence's private performances in the fight Rout of the French Fatal blunder on the part of the officers Lawrence refits himself with boots Buonaparte's carriage with its contents captured A fine take of mutton A good meal and night's rest after the battle Paddy's new ingredient for dough-boys.
Sir Horatio Nelson resumes the command of the advanced squadron. Bombardment of Cadiz. Nelson sails for Teneriffe. Saumarez resumes the command. Escorts a convoy to Gibraltar. Refits at Lisbon, and returns. Conducts the negotiation for exchange of prisoners. Sir W. Parker relieves Sir James. He arrives at Gibraltar. Is attached to Nelson's squadron. Proceeds off Toulon. A storm.
The servant who defends his master at the peril of his life, for a little gold betrays and murders him; the chaste wife pollutes her bed because of some disgust or absence, and in Lucrece we find Messalina; the proprietor, by turns father and tyrant, refits and restores his ruined farmer and drives from his lands the farmer's too numerous family, which has increased on the strength of the feudal contract; the warrior, mirror and paragon of chivalry, makes the corpses of his companions a stepping- stone to advancement.
Instead of pushing on to Arizona, deluded by reports of local aid, Sibley straggles off to Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Canby refits his broken forces under the walls of strong Fort Union. Long before the trifling affairs of Glorietta and Peralta, Valois, disgusted with Sibley, is on his way east. He will join the Army of the West. His heart sickens at the foolish incapacity of the border commander.
She refits her hats and bonnets, retrims her dresses, and in a thousand busy, earnest, happy little ways sets herself to make the most of her small income. "So the woman who has her definite allowance for housekeeping finds at once a hundred questions set at rest. Before it was not clear to her why she should not 'go and do likewise' in relation to every purchase made by her next neighbor.
But in any case, I question whether the British would have shown the white feather or lack of resource under any circumstances. On a man-of-war they were supposed to have refits of everything, and men, properly qualified, in large numbers to carry out any prodigious feat.
The country's so rollin', too, it's no trouble for 'em to hide. At last I quits an' throws my hand in the diskyard. Tom an' Jerry is shore departed an' I'm deeficient my two best mules. I hooks up the others, an' seein' it's down hill an' a easy trail I makes Tascosa an' refits. "I never crosses up on Tom an' Jerry in this yere life no more, but one day I learns their fate.
A committee of very distinguished British admirals a few years since reported that, having in view the difficulty of the operation in itself, and the chances of the force detailed falling below its minimum by accidents, or by absence for coal or refits, British naval supremacy, vital to the Empire, demanded the number of five British battleships to three of the fleet thus to be controlled.
Maecenas, descended from royal ancestors, O both my protection and my darling honor! The merchant, dreading the south-west wind contending with the Icarian waves, commends tranquility and the rural retirement of his village; but soon after, incapable of being taught to bear poverty, he refits his shattered vessel.
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