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Speak I sooth, my masters?" quoth he, turning toward them of the town. Said a burgher somewhat stricken in years, "Nought but sooth; peaceable men like to me eschew such servants; all the more because of this, that if one of these queens misbehave with the knife, or strayeth from her master's bed, the laws of the Burg meddle not therein.
"If she were here," she would cry, "she would certainly comfort me, and sooth the distraction of my soul." She was sitting one afternoon, wrapped in these melancholy reflexions, when she was interrupted by the entrance of Belcour.
"Naa, naa, no beastie," the child replied, and the widow's relish of her thumb was gone; for, sooth to say, no Master Rideout, nor any other patron of free trade was here, but Geoffrey Mordacks, of York city, general factor, and universal agent. It was beautiful to see how Dr.
When he removed the child from the sack, he found it greatly deformed, in very sooth.
And from the sea shall thine own death come, the gentlest death that may be, which shall end thee foredone with smooth old age, and the folk shall dwell happily around thee. This that I say is sooth." 'So spake he, and I answered him, saying: "Teiresias, all these threads, methinks, the gods themselves have spun. But come, declare me this and plainly tell me all.
And sooth to say, in spite of longing just to see if Master Carver could have served me such a trick as it grew towards the dusk, I was not best pleased to be there; for it seemed a lawless place, and some of Lorna's fright stayed with me as I talked it away from her.
"Speak, crone, your life is yours if you but tell me truly, by your sooth, the thing that I shall ask." "Thou godless man, stand back!" cried Elspeth, seeing him draw his sword as though to slay her. "Nay, tell me of your sooth for I do believe you are a very witch tell me, what shall the issue of this invasion be? Speak, thou vile hag! lest I release your black soul over soon!"
They will rend me asunder as they would a fox." "You were a cunning fox, in good sooth, to come hither," rejoined Nicholas, in a taunting tone; "but will you go hence if I liberate you?" "I will indeed I will!" replied Potts. "And will no more molest Mistress Nutter?" thundered Nicholas. "Take heed what you promise," roared Nowell from the other side of the wall.
"Dear kind dame, in sooth you do often put me in mind of my mother that is far away." "All the better; I'll put you more in mind of her before I have done with you." And the honest soul beamed with pleasure.
I laughed, for I knew his cool hardihood, and never-flinching courage; and sooth to say no coward would have dared to talk like that. 'But when one comes to think of it, he continued, smiling at himself; 'some provision should be made for even that unpleasant chance. I will leave the whole in writing, with orders to be opened, etc., etc.
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