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On the contrary, many garden-flowers that are colored in the species, and besides this have a white or yellow variety, have also striped sorts. The oldest instance is probably the marvel of Peru, Mirabilis Jalappa, which already had more than one striped variety at the time of its introduction from Peru into the European gardens, about the beginning of the seventeenth century.
The boys, the chaplains, and the choristers lived within the inner quadrangle, the northern side of which is formed by the chapel and the refectory. The original chapel, with the exception of the beautiful fan-groining of its roof, was much defaced in the seventeenth century, but was restored in the nineteenth, when a new reredos was added.
For those were the only conditions under which Bravi could have exercised their profession as they did throughout Italy in the seventeenth century. Trombin detained the innkeeper a moment when he was about to leave the two to their toilet, after the day's ride. 'Some acquaintances of ours must have spent a night here last week, Trombin began. 'Do you remember them?
Yet it was repeatedly and, one might have thought, well observed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
In the nineteenth century, one similarly affected would think it meant a fevered, a disordered brain; but in the seventeenth, when statesmen like Cromwell believed in dreams and omens, and roués like Monmouth carried charms in their pockets, these things were differently regarded.
On receiving a letter from General Schuyler of the seventeenth, stating the divided situation of the British army, he seemed to anticipate the event which afterwards occurred, and to suggest the measure in which originated that torrent of misfortune with which Burgoyne was overwhelmed.
In the Odenwald is a village that hight Odenheim, and there the stream runneth still; beyond doubt it is the same. Seventeenth Adventure How Siegfried Was Mourned and Buried They tarried there that night, and then crossed the Rhine. Heroes never went to so woeful a hunt. For one thing that they slew, many women wept, and many a good knight's body paid for it.
In the seventeenth century it was played in the streets of London, much to the annoyance of the inhabitants, who had to protect their windows with hurdles and bushes. At Bromfield, in Cumberland, the annual contest on Shrove Tuesday was keenly fought. Sides having been chosen, the football was thrown down in the churchyard, and the house of the captain of each side was the goal.
Such of these letters as came while Carrie was still in the Seventeenth Street place were read with more interest though never delight than those which arrived after she was installed in her luxurious quarters at the Wellington. Even there her vanity or that self-appreciation which, in its more rabid form, is called vanity was not sufficiently cloyed to make these things wearisome.
His arrest and his conviction followed and then the eighteen dreary years of imprisonment terminating only with the superintendent's life. Madame de Sevigné saw him in the beginning, wept for her hero, but after a while she, too, fell away from his weary years. After Charles Lebrun. Gobelins, Seventeenth Century.
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