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And this was the third shift of the rowers, and the stoutest men in the ship now held the oars in their hands, and the ship shook through all her length and breadth as they drave her over the waters. So Hallblithe came aft to the old man and found him asleep; so he took him by the shoulder, and shook him and said: "Awake, faring-fellow, for the land is a-nigh."
Somebody has said, that to swallow six cross-buns daily consecutively for a fortnight would surfeit the stoutest digestion. But to have to furnish as many jokes daily, and that not for a fortnight, but for a long twelvemonth, as we were constrained to do, was a little harder execution. "Man goeth forth to his work until the evening" from a reasonable hour in the morning, we presume it was meant.
At times he felt again that odd sensation of a recovered past, but he regarded it not; he had other things to consider. There is no time more terrible for the courage of the stoutest man than a time of cholera on board ship or in a little place whence there is no escape; no time worse for a physician than one when his science is mocked and his skill avails nothing.
He read on till he reached the memorable encounter between the King's daughter and Jarjarees, who presented himself "in a most hideous shape, with hands like winnowing forks, and legs like masts, and eyes like burning torches" which was calculated to unnerve the stoutest novice.
But they were not men of war. They did not fight great battles, as do the Thunder Bird and his warriors." There were large animals, too, in those days; so large that the stoutest of our warriors were but as children beside them. Their bones have been preserved through many generations. They are sacred to us, and we keep them because they will cure us when we are sick, and will save us from danger.
The stoutest bestiarii declare they are willing enough to fight a boar or a bull; but as for a lion or a tiger, they think the game too much in earnest. 'They are worthy of a mitre, replied Julia, in disdain. 'Oh! have you seen the new house of Fulvius, the dear poet? said Pansa's wife. 'No: is it handsome? 'Very! such good taste. But they say, my dear, that he has such improper pictures!
It was enough to curdle the blood of the stoutest hearted, and freeze with horror the bravest warrior. Humphrey was no warrior, but a strong-limbed, tender-hearted youth; and as he looked at the awful scene before him, a blood-red mist seemed to swim before his eyes. He gasped, and clutched at the nearest tree trunk for support. Surely, surely it was some fever dream which had come upon him.
But at last they showed, by their resistance, that they had clawed hold of something. "Draw slowly," said Mr. Atkins: "and, if it is, be men, and hold fast." The men drew slowly, slowly, and presently there rose to the surface a Thing to strike terror and loathing into the stoutest heart. The mutilated remains of a human face and body.
But as soon as Thorstein came out of the dungeon he went to see goodwife Spes, and she took him to her and kept him privily; but whiles was he with the Varangians in warfare, and in all onsets showed himself the stoutest of hearts. <i>Of the doings of Thorstein and the Lady Spes</i>. In those days was Harald Sigurdson at Micklegarth, and Thorstein fell into friendship with him.
When it broke in upon the lives of these few persons seeking dimly for their happiness as the heathen grope for an unknown God and threw down carefully constructed plans, swept aside the strongest will and crushed the stoutest heart, it was only working out its destiny. The dust sprinkled on Desiree's hair had fallen on the faces of thousands of dead.
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