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It is not my intention, nor is it possible no matter how interesting to me, to set down ad seriatim the happenings of the next twelve hours. But a few will not be denied recital. O'Keefe regained cheerfulness. "After all, Doc," he said to me, "it's a beautiful scrap we're going to have. At the worst the worst is no more than the leprechaun warned about.
"Where are my clothes?" "Here, sor," replied the corporal, equal to the occasion, taking up a bundle that was lying on one of the lockers and proceeding to spread out my uniform, jacket and trousers and other articles of wearing apparel seriatim, on the top of the bed-place; Macan smoothing down each with the palm of his hand as if he were grooming a horse.
With a motion so rapid that the eye could scarcely follow it, the whale turned, settling withal, and, catching the momentarily motionless aggressor in the lethal sweep of those awful shears, crunched him in two halves, which writhing sections he swallowed SERIATIM. And the allied forces aft what of them?
And imprimis I would venture humbly to obserue that your Majesties arguments are to the last Degree asinine. Euen the title which, as is customarie with great personages, is the best part of your Majesties book is marred by an unseemlie concession to paronomasia. That your Majesties manifold abuses of the Logicks may be better espied, I will take them seriatim.
May I venture to ask the names of all your children?" Mr De Benyon gave me a list seriatim, which I put down with great gravity. "Of course, there is no doubt of your second brother not being married. I believe we ought to have a certificate. Do you know his address?" "He has been in the East Indies for many years. He returned home on furlough, and has now just sailed again for Calcutta."
"Have you examined the paper that was handed to you?" asked Sir Hector Trumpler. "I have." "What did you see on the paper?" "I saw twenty thumb-prints, of which some were evident forgeries, some were evidently genuine, and some were doubtful." "Taking the thumb-prints seriatim, what have you noted about them?" Mr.
'We'll be a day behind the fair at Liverpool. The Grotkau's got all the freight that might ha' been ours an' the Lammergeyer's. McRimmon laughed an' chuckled the pairfect eemage o' senile dementia. Ye ken his eyebrows wark up an' down like a gorilla's. "'Ye're under sealed orders, said he, tee-heein' an' scratchin' himself. 'Yon's they' to be opened seriatim.
The searching of houses was carried on just as it was during the Spanish regime, while the American soldiers at the outposts often invaded our lines, thus irritating our sentries. It would make this book a very large volume if I continued to state seriatim the abuses and atrocities committed by the American soldiery in those days of general anxiety.
Upon a future occasion saw it to more advantage. I refer to my diary, from which make the following extracts. Monday, the eighteenth of February. Returned on board from another trip to the shore, last night at twelve, and have seen so many sights, that I scarcely know in what manner to record them; perhaps the best plan is to detail them, seriatim.
"Well, listen to your Uncle Stalky who is a great man. Moreover and subsequently, Foxy's goin' to let us drill the corps in turn privatim et seriatim so that we'll all know how to handle a half company anyhow. Ergo, an' propter hoc, when we go to the Shop we shall be dismissed drill early; thus, my beloved 'earers, combinin' education with wholesome amusement."
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