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Sometimes their prolonged notes sounded like the wail of a deserted babe, sometimes like mocking laughter, and again like a deep guttural snore.
Concedis justas, leges et consuetudines esse tenendas, et promittis per te eas esse protegendas, et ad honorem Dei corroborandas, quas vulgus elegit, secundum vires tuas ? It would appear, from the text, that the Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest were sometimes called "laws of the land."
Accustomed to the truck system in agriculture, the managers often paid wages in scrip always good for supplies at the company store but redeemable in cash only at infrequent intervals. The operatives therefore sometimes found that they had exchanged one sort of economic dependence for another.
A great tree sometimes served as a boundary mark or signpost; under trees chiefs of clans sat to decide disputes. Thus invested with importance as a sort of political center as well as the abode of a spirit, a tree naturally became a shrine and an asylum.
Or if there can be anything in such a secret specially interesting to myself; why should I be made to tell it to you?" "I think the truth is always the best, Lady Ongar." "Truth is always better than a lie so at least people say, though they sometimes act differently; but silence may be better than either." "This is a matter, Lady Ongar, in which I cannot be silent.
There is not a trade union, among all the eighteen or twenty engaged in shipyard work riveters, fitters, platers, joiners, and all the rest of them in which he has not police officers enrolled as skilled tradesmen, members of the unions, working as ordinary hands or as foremen, sometimes even in office as "shop stewards" representing the interest of the unions and acting as their spokesmen in disputes with the employers.
You have a very striking face and figure, and you have not changed in the least. Besides, the moment was that in which she experienced an awful shock. Such things are sometimes photographed on the mind." "Has she never recognized you in any way?" I asked. "Never since that day at Weissenstein. There is just a faint possibility that when she sees us together she may recall that catastrophe.
The other causes which sometimes affect the numbers of the lower classes, but which I have shown not to have existed to any such degree during this war, penury, cold, hunger, nakedness, do not easily reach the higher orders of society. I do not dread for them the slightest taste of these calamities from the distress and pressure of the war.
Sometimes the "Spiral boss" was irritable, and chewed more lozenges than ever. Even then, however, he was not offensive, but one of those people who hurt themselves by their own irritability more than they hurt other people. "Haven't you done that YET?" he would cry. "Go on, be a month of Sundays." Again, and Paul could understand him least then, he was jocular and in high spirits.
He would contend the matter with the ministers and leave the table, and lean sometimes on the chimney-piece, advocating the cause of mercy, until overruled by his responsible advisers." Erratum in the Washington "Globe." For "Bumbleton's storm destroying porringers," read "Hamilton's worm-destroying lozenges." Plain Sermons.
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