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Add to this that they had the advantage of acting upon internal lines with shorter and safer communications, and one gathers how formidable a task lay before the soldiers of the Empire.
What do some of these other women factory workers, unorganized and entirely dependent upon legislation for conserving their strength by shorter working hours, give in their industry? What do they get from it?
Long after his father had left the clearing for the second time, he still ran on but gasping for breath while his steps grew slower and shorter. The moon rose, one star after another revealed its light, yet he still struggled forward. The forest lay behind him; he had reached a broad road, which he followed southward, always southward, till his strength utterly failed.
In a calm review of his course many years later George Muller saw that he "ran hastily to the lot" as a shorter way of settling a doubtful matter, and that, especially in the question of God's call to the mission field, this was shockingly improper.
I can promise, in her name, that in that case you will never be troubled in any way by her; and she will probably take up her residence, permanently, in Egypt, as she is not strong, and the warm climate is essential to her." The letter to his brother was shorter. "My dear Geoffrey, "I am going up, with General Hicks, to the Soudan. If you receive this letter, it will be because I have died there.
It is a shorter search that we have to make for God. We seek Him by desire. Do you want Him? A great many of us do not. We seek Him by communion, by turning our thoughts to Him, amidst all the rush of daily life, and such a turning of thought to Him, which is quite possible, will prevent our most earnest working upon things material from descending to the likeness of the lions' fighting for it.
When we are having summer any particular spot on the Northern Hemisphere has quite a long way to travel in the light, and only a very short bit in the dark, and the further north you go the longer the day and shorter the night, until right up near the North Pole, within the Arctic Circle, it is daylight all the time.
"Wine is sap, and grapes are wood, The wooden board yields wine as good." "But the time? so infinitely shorter than that which Nature usually occupies in the process?" "Time and space are no Gods, as a wise German says; and as the electric telegraph ought already to have taught you. They are customs, but who has proved them to be laws of Nature?
On one side stood the factory, cheerless and gray, with its storied heights, and long rows of windows that on summer evenings flamed with the reflected caresses of the setting sun, and in the shorter days of winter threw the light of their illuminated rooms like beacon fires across the miles of moor.
It was balanced upon a single runner of polished stone, about two feet broad, with a narrow, slightly shorter outrider on each side. "Harnessed to the shaft were two animals, more resembling our reindeers than anything else, except that they were gray in color and had no horns.
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