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He saw that the points had been so set as to turn the run-away engine on to the down line, and in his mind's eye saw a monster excursion train, which had started just a few minutes before, labouring slowly forward, which the light engine would soon overtake. A collision in a few minutes would be certain.
About two in the afternoon, I was riding through the park for this purpose: and here another incident occurred; which, though it excited extreme terror, it afterward afforded uncommon delight. A few days before, I had witnessed a lady on a run-away horse, who was seized with fright, dropped from the saddle, and bruised herself exceedingly.
I shall never forget how you walked bare-footed to the Black River, to ask pardon for the poor run-away slave. Here, my beloved, take this flowering branch of a lemon-tree, which I have gathered in the forest: you will let it remain at night near your bed. Eat this honey-comb too, which I have taken for you from the top of a rock. But first lean on my bosom, and I shall be refreshed."
In the next chapter we shall tell about three run-away boys, and their capture after ten days' absence. On the whole, however, the children seemed to be wonderfully contented and happy, and all went merrily and cheerfully day after day. The baker-boys made and baked the bread, in the brick oven.
"The gallant had better beware the moon!" exclaimed Dudley, striking the but of his musket against the ice with so much force as to cause his companion to start, in alarm. "What fool's errand hath again brought him to prick his nag so deep into the forest?" "Nay, thy wit is ever like the unbroken colt, a headstrong run-away.
Versed as thou art with all the customs of the Vrishnis in battle, do thou, O Suta, never again fly from the field as thou hast done! What will the irrepressible Madhava, the elder brother of Gada, say to me when he heareth that I have left the field of battle in bewilderment or that I have been struck on the back a run-away from the combat!
My Friend then went to Captain Thomas, who was the Chief of all the run-away Blacks, and took me with him.
There are, however, many races mixed up with the Bushmen; for run-away slaves, brought from Madagascar, Malaya, and even those of the mixed white breed, when they have committed murder or other penal crimes have added to the race and incorporated themselves with them; they are called the Children of the Desert, and they are literally such." "Have you seen much of them?"
Run for your life! leap! or you will be a cinder in five minutes, that nothing but a coroner would take for the wreck of a human being! If any gentleman will have the kindness to stop this run-away comparison, I shall be much obliged to him.
How fair the sight! Approach the twirling couples. They talk as they whirl. 'Fancy the run-away tailor! is the male's remark, and he expects to be admired for it, and is. 'That make-up Countess his sister, you know didn't you see her? she turned green, says Creation's second effort, almost occupying the place of a rib. 'Isn't there a run-away wife, too? 'Now, you mustn't be naughty!
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