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First, the conquest of Sind in 712 A.D. by the Arabs, who held it till the eleventh century but without disturbing or influencing India beyond their immediate neighbourhood.
'What's th' news of th' day? says th' prisidint. 'Nawthin' doin', says th' janitor. 'Then wake up and sind Flannery a gineral order t' learn th' Declaration av Indepindince by hearrt, says th' prisidint. 'Mebby he do be gittin' lazy! 'And shall I add on th' Constitution av th' United States? says th' janitor. 'Sure! says th' prisidint, ''t will do Flannery no harm t' be busy."
'Saints have mercy on my sinful sowl! Sind for Father Constant! Oh sind for Father Constant an' let me go clean! By that I knew he was not so dead as I cud ha' wished. "O'Hara picks up the lamp in the veranda wid a hand as stiddy as a rest. 'Fwhat damned dog's thrick is this av yours? sez he, and turns the light on Tim Vulmea that was shwimmin' in blood from top to toe.
Whin th' King iv Siam wants a plisint evenin', who does he sind f'r but a lively Kerry man that can sing a song or play a good hand at spile-five? Whin th' Sultan iv Boolgahria takes tea, 'tis tin to wan th' man across fr'm him is more to home in a caubeen thin in a turban.
"He's gone on a message for me," replied Connor, with the utmost frankness. "But that's a bad way for him to mind his business," said the father. "I'll have the task that you set both of us finished," replied the son, "so that you'll lose nothin' by his absence, at all events." "It's wrong, Connor, it's wrong; where did you sind him to?" "To Bodagh Buie's wid a letter to Una."
And it is a dead man that sings: Menschen waren wir ja auch, Froh und traurig, so wie Ihr. Und nun sind wir leblos hier, Sind nur Erde, wie Ihr sehet. At the moment he was writing this song, in the short respite he had from his illness, he himself was nearly a dead man.
Alone in the room they discussed matters in lowered tones; Slavin and Yorke not forgetting to compliment Redmond on his presence of mind or, as the sergeant put it: "Divartin' his attenshun." The big Irishman scratched his chin thoughtfully. "I must go wire th' O.C. report av all this. Sind Gully comes back on th' same thrain wid Inspector Kilbride to-morrow.
"E ella Italiana?" Again she shook her head. "Sind sie Deutsch?" Another shake of the head, and then she said: "Yo soy Inglesa." The priest gave a long whistle. "English!" he cried; "English! Then in future please be kind enough to speak English, for your Spanish is well, declined, with thanks."
It was near two years afther I lift home that I took the notion of going to Ameriky; me aunt advised me against going, but, whin she saw that me mind was set on it, she consinted, and did her best, poor woman, to sind me away lookin' dacent and respectable. I niver saw me father or me stepmother agin.
A shrewd old workman tells us, with a proud satisfaction, that when Napoleon’s power was crushed, and Saxony had to pay the penalty of her adhesion to the French conqueror, in the shape of various parings and loppings of her already narrow territories—that Prussia gloated with greedy eyes, and half stretched out an eager hand to grasp the Erzgebirge and their mineral riches. “Aber,” exclaims he with a chuckle, “die sind noch Sächische, Gott sey dank!” “But they are still Saxon, thanks be to God!”
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