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Women came to the doors to look at Surajah and Dick as they came along. "Where are you from?" an old man asked, as he came out from his cottage. "From down the mountain side. Tigers are getting scarce there, and we thought we would come over and see what we could do, here." "Here there are many tigers," the old man said. "For the last twenty years, the wars have taken most of our young men away.
Scarce had flame shot from the muzzle, when down came the rebel's gun tumbling to the ground; pursued out of the tree by something that resembled a huge bird, with spread wings, swooping down terribly, and striking the ground with a jar heard even amid the thunder of battle. It was the rebel himself.
In the defiles it was riflemen who were wanted, and the prisoners had no rifles; besides that, the line of the French operations never came near to that route. Then, again, if provisions were so scarce, how were the unarmed prisoners to obtain them on the simple allegation that they had fought unsuccessfully against the French!
The Hababs, who had now to supply us, frightened by the presence of the hairy nephew of the Nab and the Bashi-hazouks, made themselves scarce, and it was only after much parley and the repeated assurance that every one would be paid, that the camels at last made their appearance.
They are the old mangy bears that bother tourists, Jesse James bears, that they want to get rid of. But they wouldn't sell you a cub for love or money. Bears are scarce this year. They hint of a bear famine up there. "And anyhow, you didn't let me finish.
The story dear our wise men fable call, Give paltry facts the mighty range; To me it seems just what should fall, And nothing very strange. But were I deaf and lame and blind and sore, I scarce would care for cure to ask; Another prayer should haunt thy door Set thee a harder task. If thou art Christ, see here this heart of mine, Torn, empty, moaning, and unblest!
'Brother, said she, smiling, 'I can scarce forbear being angry with you for advising me to break the engagement I have made with the most puissant and most renowned monarch in the world.
The fire is scarce out in the Hertford, and shall be rekindled at once? Mr. Pomeroy silenced him by a gesture. 'No, he said; 'we are not staying. But you have some guests here, who arrived half an hour ago? 'To be sure, your honour. The same I was naming. 'Is there a young lady with them? The landlord looked hard at him. 'A young lady? he said. 'Yes!
Scarce less unhappy in her decision than in her uncertainty, and every way dissatisfied with her situation, her views and herself, Cecilia was still so distressed and uncomfortable, when Delvile called the next morning, that he could not discover what her determination had been, and fearfully enquired his doom with hardly any hope of finding favour.
I saw them enter: they came like the sheeted dead; they wore long white dresses; their faces were pale and livid, like those that look out upon you from coffins; their forms were thin and wasted, and cast scarce a shadow as they passed between you and the beams of the sinking sun.
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