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Penal statutes were commonly intended to arm the prince with more authority for that purpose: and being in the main calculated for promoting his influence as first magistrate, there seemed no danger in allowing him to dispense with their execution, in such particular cases as might require an exception or indulgence. * Rot. Parl. I Hen. V. n. xv. Ibid. I Hen. V. n. xxii.
The whole thing was so real and yet so supernatural I woke up in a cold perspiration. Lupin in a most contemptuous manner, said: "What utter rot." Before I could reply, Gowing said there was nothing so completely uninteresting as other people's dreams. I appealed to Cummings, but he said he was bound to agree with the others and my dream was especially nonsensical.
The celebrated embargo of Jefferson stopped at once the whole trade of New England, and condemned her thousand ships to rot at the wharves, and caused the ruin of thousands of families.
"Never mind my extravagance, Niâbon," I said, in the same spirit; "the one hundred and twenty-five pounds of tobacco in the half-tierce, which only cost me a quarter of a dollar a pound, is better given away to these people than left here to rot."
"It's nothing at all. You don't think that Englishmen would leave a fellow to bleed to death, do you?" "No English boy good," said the redskin. Then he added, with a sort of wistfulness: "But Indian would leave pale-face " "Rot!" was the sharp interruption. "If I had been hurt as you have been, you would do just the same. Now lie quiet for a while.
This, of course, had a bad influence on so capricious a variety as the Catawba; rot and mildew appeared, and many became discouraged, because they did not realize what they had anticipated. A number of unfavorable seasons brought grape growing almost to a stand still here.
Say, he'll throw the hooks into them guys down in Edelweiss so hard one of these days that they won't come out till they rot out." Still gagged and somewhat dizzy, King was hurried off into the narrow mountain path, closely surrounded by the five men. "They tell me your friend, the Cook guy, got plugged down in the Gap when he tried to duck this afternoon," volunteered the Yankee unconcernedly.
"Through this fellow Ebers!" broke in Fullaway excitedly. "It's all rot to think that Mrs. Marlow had anything to do with it! Great Scott! do any of you mean to suggest that she engineered several murders, and " Delkin laughed a soft, cynical laugh. "You're lumping a lot of big stuff altogether, Fullaway," he remarked drily. "Do you know what I think of all this business?
You are speaking a tongue unknown to me." "Don't talk rot. You know well what I mean. We know you have the thing. You didn't steal it to turn it over to England or the States. What is your price to Germany?" "Whatever you have in mind, believe me when I say I have nothing to sell to the Wilhelmstrasse." "But what else can you do with it? What other market ?"
Parson wanted me to do his "Caesar" for him." "Oh, what a whacker!" exclaimed Parson. "`I declined, owing to not knowing " "I can believe that!" added Parson. "`Both detained for gross conduct not knowing verbs my home is far away. Let out at 12:28." "What rot it is!" exclaimed Parson, looking up. "What a howling young ass he must be to put it all down!"
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