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Peter raised himself, leaned upon his elbow, looked at the poor fellow, saying quietly, "Die like a man," and instantly lay down again. It was enough; not another word was extorted. One of the most notable individuals in the plot was a certain Jack Purcell, commonly called Gullah Jack, Gullah signifying Angola, the place of his origin.
"'Why, I says, 'wont you be here to-morrow? "'Oh, yes, he says, 'we'll be here to-morrow, but you wont. "'Is that so? I says, sarcastical. 'Coming in, I says, 'I thought I seen the word Welcome on the doormat. "'Going out, he says, 'you'll notice that, spelled backward, it's a French word signifying Mind Your Step.
They responded by pointing to the summit of the hill, as if signifying that they feared to expose themselves to rifle shot from the ruins. He resumed his march, forded the shallow stream, and pushed on two hundred yards. "O Madre de Dios!" groaned Clara, falling into the language of her childhood. "He is going clear up to them."
Then one of them pointed towards the various points of the compass, and looked interrogatively at Frank. The sun was streaming in through the doorway, and he was thus able to judge of the direction in which the camp must lie. He made a sweep with his hand towards the northwest, signifying that they were somewhere in that direction.
Forty and two months, or twelve hundred and sixty days, are symbolic time, signifying twelve hundred and sixty years, during which time the power of apostasy was to reign supreme over the minds of men. The same period is also referred to frequently in subsequent chapters.
Then a messenger came on board, signifying that they had come before the king, who had sent them to conduct our ship into a better anchorage, and desiring that a rope might be given them out that they might, as their king commanded, tow the ship to the place assigned.
Elephant-hunting became a trade; and a terrible havoc was commenced, which has been unremittingly pursued down to the present time. The term ivory, originally derived from a Greek word signifying heavy, is indiscriminately applied to the following varieties of osseous matter: The tusks and teeth of the elephant.
This was likewise the custom of the Troglodytae, a people bordering upon Aethiopia who, according to Aelian, lived in subterranean caverns; from whence, indeed they took their name trogli, signifying a cavern; and Virgil, in his Georgics, thus describes the Sarmatae, Ipsi in defossis specubus, secura sub alta Ocia agunt terra.
"Not much of a pedigree to boast about, girls," was the final verdict, given with a slight curl of the lip, signifying unbounded contempt, "the grandfather on the one side a farmer, on the other a draper; the father a poor country doctor; three old maiden aunts living in one of our commonest localities, keeping no servant, doing their own work, and dressing like Quakers.
Universal peace and concord will be realised between all the nations, and that incomparable Branch will gather together all Israel: signifying that in this cycle Israel will be gathered in the Holy Land, and that the Jewish people who are scattered to the East and West, South and North, will be assembled together.
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