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What this great prince had merely sketched in rude outline, was filled up by Gustavus Adolphus, his still greater grandson. These two kingdoms, once unnaturally united and enfeebled by their union, had been violently separated at the time of the Reformation, and this separation was the epoch of their prosperity.
This hand-wheel was located in the cab, where it was easily accessible.... "The rough outline sketched below shows the location of motor in relation to counter-shaft, belting, driving-wheels, idler, etc.: "On account of both rails being used for circuits, . . . the driving-wheels had to be split circumferentially and completely insulated from the axles.
This letter from his mother, whom he had not seen for six years, those expressions of the south country of which he could hear the intonations that he knew so well, that coarse handwriting which sketched for him an adored face, all wrinkled, scored, and cracked, but smiling beneath its peasant's head-dress, had affected the Nabob.
But under the influences we have sketched, he had already begun to spend all his leisure time at the stores, the railroad dépôts, wharves, engine-houses, and other places of resort for loiterers, where he saw much to encourage the reckless and disobedient spirit, which characterized his soliloquy above quoted. Little did his parents realize the effects of their own doings.
So she sat still and watched him, giving a bit of a smile now and then indeed to his direct remarks, but as often only a fuller look of the brown eyes. Since the gentleman had been under the tree she had been idly busy with her own thoughts, having sketched herself tired in the morning. "Prim" she recognized at once Dr. Maryland's sister, she had heard him speak of her.
Chillon was amused up to inquisitive surprise by Carinthia's novel idea of her formerly dreaded riddle of a husband. As she sketched the very rational alliance proposed to her, and his kick at the fetters of Calesford, a shadowy dash for an image of the solicitous tyrant was added perforce to complete the scene; following which, her head moved sharply, the subject was flung over her shoulder.
The faker usually assures him that he has the disorders he fears and then proceeds to cure him by his own expensive and marvelous course of treatment. What has been sketched here is merely the outside of neurasthenia.
It was the mountains that he loved, not wriggling his body up hard places. The Coolin, he said, were his favourites, for on some of them you could get two thousand feet of good rock. We got our glasses on the face of Sgurr Alasdair, and he sketched out for me various ways of getting to its grim summit. The Coolin and the Dolomites for him, for he had grown tired of the Chamonix aiguilles.
The town of La Goya, with a population of five thousand, is the next place of importance reached. Here are slaughtered as many as fifteen hundred head of cattle a day. Nor far distant from it is the landing-place for the animals, a pretty spot which M. Forgues sketched en passant.
Modern Literature; the Brothers Santsos and Alexander Rangabe. GREEK LITERATURE AND ITS DIVISIONS. The literary histories thus far sketched, with the exception of the Hebrew, occupy a subordinate position, and constitute but a small part of the general and continuous history of literature.
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