United States or Angola ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"They are," says Sir Joseph Fayrer, "absolutely without any specific effect on the condition produced by the poison." But "anti-venene," as Dr. Fraser calls his immunised blood-serum, follows the poison into the system, even after the fatal symptoms have begun to show themselves, and arrests them at once.
Eager words rose to the ferryman's lips, but he wisely suppressed them, bending to his oars till the little boat sprang through the water. The sun dropped into the river, allowing the faintly-traced sickle of the new moon to show, as the boat once more touched land, at the right place this time. Rosamond tripped up the bank, with a friendly "Good-evening," and at the top she met the professor.
"Oh, pray, come up, sir, and don't talk," cried Dick excitedly. "Poor father is dying!" "Oh, no," said the doctor; "we must not let him die." "But be quick, sir! You are so long!" cried Dick. "Don't be impatient, my lad," said the doctor smiling. "We folks have to be calm and quiet in all we do. Now show me the way."
The Scotch Bible, in consequence of the monopoly, was as badly printed as the English one. In order to show how monopoly had failed to secure good work, a gentleman sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury an enormous list of errors which he had found in the Oxford Nonpareil Bible.
In either case the use of the term "history" indicates that the study now aims at something more than the accumulation of materials and the pointing out of resemblances and analogies, namely, at arranging the materials at its command so as to show them in an organic connection. This, it cannot be doubted, is the task which the science of religion is now called to attempt.
And now, here's your earnest." As she spoke, she put into his hand what Willie took to be a shilling. But when he glanced at it, he found himself mistaken. "Thank you, grannie," he said, trying not to show himself a little disappointed, for he had had another scheme in his head some days, and the shilling would have been everything towards that.
I want to git this princess with 'Mericans an' I want to show these fellers what 'Mericans can do behin' a rifle. Our game is to git to Carlina and lick the bunch of Guinnies thet has stolen the young lady's throne. If ye wanter do thet an' do it hard and square well, he's fer lettin' this other thing drop.
He considers himself as obliged to show by some proof of his abilities, that he is not consulted to no purpose, and therefore watches every opening for objection, and looks round for every opportunity to propose some specious alteration.
"My, but you're a man," exclaimed Euphrasia, backing away at last and staring at him with the only complete approval she had ever accorded to any human being save one. "What did you expect, Phrasie?" "Come, and I'll show you your room," she said, in a gutter she could not hide; "it's got all the same pictures in, your mother's pictures, and the chair you broke that time when Hilary locked you in.
But I'll show you her portrait." She gave a little cry of astonishment as I handed her the miniature; the diamond setting flashed under the softly shaded electric light. "Oh, how lovely! But why, she's far more beautiful than I am, or ever shall be! Did she give you this, Maurice?" There was a queer note in her voice as she put the question; it sounded almost like a touch of jealousy.
Word Of The Day