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Pleydell, your honour kens mony things, but ye dinna ken the farm o' Charlie's Hope; it's sae weel stockit already that we sell maybe sax hundred pounds off it ilka year, flesh and fell the gither; na, na. 'Can't you take another then? 'What, not upon thy neighbour at Dawston Devilstone how d 'ye call the place? 'What, on Jock o' Dawston? hout na.
The riderless horse galloped up to the troughs and stooped its head to drink. The bridle-rein trailed on the ground. Sax looked around the tank and saw it very near his hand. He gave a quick glance at the saddle and saw that all the gear was right, and then quietly stretched out his arm and caught the rein. He gripped it firmly but did not pull.
A small body of them landed in that kingdom, with a view of learning the state of the country; and when the magistrate of the place questioned them concerning their enterprise, and summoned them to appear before the king, and account for their intentions, they killed him, and, flying to their ships, escaped into their own country. Sax. p 64. Alur. Sax. p. 72.
I immediately handed it to Miss Melbury. Really a most enjoyable evening! THE next morning we were startled by an extraordinary proceeding on the part of one of the guests. Mr. Sax had left Carsham Hall by the first train nobody knew why. Nature has laid so, at least, philosophers say some heavy burdens upon women. Do those learned persons include in their list the burden of hysterics?
"They are a contumacious generation," replied the gardener; "they hae sax days in the week to hive on, and yet it's a common observe that they will aye swarm on the Sabbath-day, and keep folk at hame frae hearing the word But there's nae preaching at Graneagain chapel the e'en that's aye ae mercy." "You might have gone to the parish church as I did, Andrew, and heard an excellent discourse."
His shield was full of shafts of arrows and spears; his byrny was rent in many places, his helm battered out of form. He had been grievously hurt in the side and in the thigh by cast-spears or ever he came to hand-blows with the Romans, but moreover he had three great wounds from the point of the sax, in the throat, in the side, in the belly, each enough for his bane.
There is nothing so unpitying, so absolutely unconcerned, as the desert is to a perishing man. Sax was a boy of unusual courage. He was the son of a pioneer, a member of that race of men who have opened up the centre of the Australian continent, and have laid the foundations of the future Australian nation.
W. Malm. p. 166. Order. Sax. p. 223. The chief merit of this monarch's government consists in the profound tranquillity which he established and maintained throughout all his dominions during the greater part of his reign.
Eadfered Flesaurs reigned twelve years in Bernicia, and twelve others in Deira, and gave to his wife Bebba, the town of Dynguaroy, which from her is called Bebbanburg.* * Bambrough. See Bede, iii. 6, and Sax. Chron. Edwin, son of Alla, reigned seventeen years, seized on Elmete, and expelled Cerdic, its king.
Far away, a pale-blue silhouette against the bright north-west sky, was a range of high mountains. "Those are the Musgraves," said Mick, in answer to a question. "That's where those niggers come from who speared my two horses." "Are the niggers very wild?" asked Sax, thinking of his father. "They're the last that really are wild in this part of the country," answered the drover.
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