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Jesus, among other things, deemed it extremely unjust that the laborer should be oppressed and despised, and that he should not only be robbed of hope of future happiness, but also be denied the right to hear the religious services.

The insurrectos were evidently worse than the Spaniards. They did all the things the Spaniards had done, and more they robbed through falsehood. Consequently, insurrectos frequently lost their heads. Major Marsh went through Bontoc close after Aguinaldo in December, 1899.

You might call it legal gambling, but to me it was downright robbery." Daylight was not abashed. This was no revelation to him. He remembered the old woman who made wine in the Sonoma hills and the millions like her who were made to be robbed. "Now look here, Miss Mason, you've got me there slightly, I grant.

While they were both looking with mute astonishment at these evidences of Jaggers's villany, there came a low knocking at the door, and two men entered, one of them a broad, brown-bearded man in a half seafaring dress, the other a policeman. "A clerk of yours, named Jaggers," said the latter. "I want to know whether he has robbed you, or if you have reason to suspect him.

Was that it? Was it that America had made them her servants, but not her children? He did not know. Robbed of the city proper, the mob turned on the mill district it had invaded. Its dream of lust and greed was over, but it could still destroy. Like a battle charge, as indeed it was, the mounted city and state police crossed the bridge.

He stopped over with me, got me full's a tick, and then robbed me." "Eh he robbed you?" "Yes, sir! He got me to drinking heavy. I like my stew a little, but he fixed me. Then he just went through me, but he didn't get all I had, you bet!" This was rich! "Lucky he didn't hit you on the head, and take the boat, too!" Doss grinned. "I suppose so." "Yes, sir!

Before he left next morning, the Samaritan went to the innkeeper. He paid the bill for the man who had been robbed. Then he told the innkeeper to take care of the man, and the Samaritan said he would pay for anything more that was needed the next time he came. "Now, think of those three men who passed along the road. Which of them was a real neighbor to the man who was robbed?"

But having respect for their good birth, and pity for their misfortunes, and perhaps a little admiration at the justice of God, that robbed men now were robbers, the squires, and farmers, and shepherds, at first did nothing more than grumble gently, or even make a laugh of it, each in the case of others.

He knew not what to think, or say, or do, and his reason seemed to be deserting him little by little. He reviewed his position, and saw himself in a moment left without wife, friend, or servants, abandoned, he felt, by the heaven above him, and more than all robbed of his honour, for in Camilla's disappearance he saw his own ruin.

Layton turned in his saddle at the door, and made them a little speech, telling them how he was there with the authority of the King's Grace, and would soon make a sweep of the place. "And there will be pickings," he cried, "pickings for us all! The widow and the orphan have been robbed long enough; it is time to spoil the fathers."