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Not that I am pretending here, even for rectification, to take these at all in turn; I only go on a little with my rueful glance at the marked gaps left in my original report of sympathies entertained.
Our astonishment was complete when, towards noon, we heard the report of a steady musketry-fire mingled with the occasional discharge of small cannon.
Clark rose. "The report does not go in?" "It does not. There is plenty of good material to take its place, and you know what it is." Clark hesitated. "Are you going to say anything about the absence of the report?" "No, let the paper go to press as if there had been no such thing as a prize fight yesterday."
A report, though of a very doubtful nature, has reached our times, that he prudently withdrew himself from their power by a voluntary death. Before we dismiss the consideration of the life and character of Diocletian, we may, for a moment, direct our view to the place of his retirement.
Parnell declared that it ought to have been one-twentieth. The population, since the publication of the Report of the Commission, has decreased by a quarter of a million, but taxation has increased from,£7,500,000 to £10,500,000.
You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" "Oh!" cried Elizabeth, "I am excessively diverted. But it is so strange!" "Yes that is what makes it amusing.
She had made such an amusing report to her mother of all that Lady Bearcroft had said and done, and purposed to do, that Lady Davenant could not help seeing the whole in a ludicrous light, felt at once that it was beneath her serious notice, and that it would be unbecoming to waste indignation upon such a person.
Whether the report of the so-called Lusk Committee has any considerable influence or no, it well illustrates a common and significant frame of mind and an habitual method of reasoning.
James M. Wade, U. S. Volunteers, the third corps, reporting to Major-General Brooke, Chickamauga. “Maj.-Gen. John J. Coppinger, U. S. Volunteers, the fourth corps, Mobile, Ala. “Maj.-Gen. William R. Shafter, U. S. Volunteers, the fifth corps, Tampa, Fla. “Maj.-Gen. Elwell S. Otis, U. S. Volunteers, to report to Major-General Merritt, U. S. A., for duty with troops in the Department of the Pacific.
"Your mother? You haven't seen her yet?" Here, at least, was a bit of the old casual Randall. He shook his head. "I've only just this minute arrived. Left the trenches yesterday. Walked from the station. Not a soul recognised me. I thought I had better come here first and report, just as I was, and not wait until I had washed and shaved and put on Christian clothes again.
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