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They disarmed him straightway, and stabled his steed right well. The host bade them take in ward Sir Gawain's armour and his sword; too far did they carry them! For that was he vexed and wrathful, and he would not it had so chanced for all his host's halls, were they of wroughten gold!
His real mother, who was just behind him, suddenly thrust her muzzle under his flank, and sent him rolling into deep water. He came up at once, much startled. Straightway he found that he could move in the water much more easily and naturally than on shore and he applied the discovery to getting ashore again with all possible haste.
He proposed to stay there for a few years in order to make a little money by means of which he might become a specialist. This was his ambition. As for that love-business seven years past, he had clean forgotten it, girl and all. Perhaps there had been other tender passages. Shall a man, wasting in despair, die because a girl throws him over? Never! Let him straightway forget her.
Bazalgette grinned, and straightway resolved to perpetrate a practical joke, and a very innocent one. "Well," said he, "the best way I can think of to meet your views will be, I think, to get him appointed to the new ship the Company is building." Lucy opened her eyes, and the blood rushed to her cheek. "Oh uncle, do I hear right? a ship?
And straightway the Romans opened the gates all of a sudden, and unexpectedly fell upon and slew great numbers of the enemy, and especially those stationed about the ram; the rest with difficulty made their escape together with the general and were saved. And Chosroes, filled with rage, impaled Aniabedes, since he had been outgeneralled by John, a tradesman and an altogether unwarlike man.
Having failed, then, in your application, you went home and discovered that some money and stamps had been stolen." "Yes, sir. I was very much surprised " "That will do, sir. Your discovery was remarkably well-timed. Herbert having obtained the position you sought, you straightway discovered proof of his dishonesty." Eben colored, for the insinuation was plain enough for even him to understand.
Relieved of the irritant of the lank youth's voice and presence, Iskender felt dismay at his own boastfulness, and repented of it humbly before Allah. He knew that a jealous eye is fixed upon the heart of every man to mark when pride leaps up and straightway blight it. To show elation was to court calamity.
As in a swoon I lay, through which suddenly came the words: 'What God hath joined, man cannot sunder. I lay thinking what they could mean. All at once I thought I knew. Straightway I rose on the cloudy arm, looked down on a measureless darkness beneath me, and up on a great, dreary, world-filled eternity above me, and crept along the arm towards the bosom of God.
And if Dagisthaeus had been willing immediately to apply fire to the foundations, I think that the city would have been captured by them straightway; but, as it was, he was awaiting encouragement from the emperor, and so, always hesitating and wasting time, he remained inactive. Such, then, was the course of events in the Roman camp.
From the beginning it had a curious fascination for him, and straightway within him half exile that he was there sprang up a sympathy for it as for something that was human and a brother. And now he was on the trail of it at last.
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