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The other reasons for his silence he had lost sight of now; this last one outweighed them all, and placed a seal upon his tongue that he felt must not be broken.
There'll be no word that can be laid hold upon all circumspect outside, with hell itself underneath. Do we not know the canters? Oh, but I'd smash through letter and seal of the law alike to get at them, were I in power! There'll be no peace till some strong hand does do it." Walter's deep eyes flashed and glowed as he spoke, and his face was shadowed with grave intensity of feeling.
The animal sought by the sealers of Newfoundland amid the furious storms and crashing floes of the great ice pack is not the fur-bearing seal of Alaska, but a variety of the much less important hair seal, which may be seen almost anywhere along the Atlantic coast.
"Yes, sir, that's what I mean; the article is a little gold seal, with a red stone to it." "How long ago was this?" came slowly from Captain Bayley's lips. "About seventeen years ago," Mrs. Holl said. "The mother died a few days afterwards; the child is our Harry; and I came to ask you but, good lawks!" An ashen greyness had been stealing across the old officer's face, and Mrs.
" he added, as he broke the seal of another letter, containing a request for a loan on the part of someone richer than himself. The soirée at Sabine Marsy's had caused Vaudrey to feel something like the enervation that follows intoxication.
Two or three years ago a mail carrier from Ayan to Yakutsk was visited by a bear during a night halt. The mail bag was lying by a tree a few steps from the Cossack, and near the bank of a brook. The bear seized and opened the pouch, regardless of the government seal on the outside. After turning the letter package several times in his paws, he tossed it into the brook.
To proclaim that yon ribs of beef and yonder ruddy Britons have met, is to furnish matter for an hour's comfortable meditation. Digest the fact. Here the Fates have put their seal to something Nature clearly devised. It was intended; and it has come to pass. A thing has come to pass which we feel to be right!
In that fight he kept jumping around when loading, so as to be a bad target, the same as an Indian would under the circumstances, and he told Burleson he wished he had his boots off, so he could get around good" and here the Colonel paused quizzically. "Would you call that a good fight?" The Deacon and I put the seal of our approval on the affair, and the Colonel rambled ahead.
If they had not seen the change take place, in all its awful details, they would never have guessed that this stout, prosperous, elderly gentleman with the high hat, the frock-coat, and the large red seal dangling from the curve of a portly waistcoat, was their own Jimmy. But, as they had seen it, they knew the dreadful truth. "Oh, Jimmy, don't!" cried Mabel desperately.
Then, turning towards Athos: "Monsieur," said he, "your declaration is of the most serious importance; are you willing to repeat it under the seal of an oath?" "Sir," replied Athos, "I have always lived in a world where my simple word was regarded as the most sacred of oaths." "This time, however, monsieur, the circumstance is more grave than any you may have been placed in.
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