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This fact did not harmonize with the general drift of the rest of my observations, for one of the first things that strikes an American in Europe is the mellowness and rich tone of things. The European is softer-voiced than the American and milder-mannered, but the bird voices seem an exception to this rule.
The next thing that strikes one is the position of the neutral countries.
I had said to myself on going to sleep, "Six o'clock, sharp!" There are men I know who can wake themselves at any time to the minute. They say to themselves literally, as they lay their heads upon the pillow, "Four-thirty," "Four-forty-five," or "Five-fifteen," as the case may be; and as the clock strikes they open their eyes.
At Hanover Court House The Eighteenth corps joins the Army of the Potomac The armies meet at Coal Harbor Battle of June 1st Battle of June 3d Terrible exposure The army strikes for Petersburgh Charles City Court House A centenarian Review of the overland campaign. Early on the morning of the 30th, the army was again moving, advancing with heavy skirmishing toward Hanover Court House.
Now it chanced that Roger Vanderwater was lying ill in his palace at the other end of Kingsbury not the dire illness that strikes down you and me, brothers; just a bit of biliousness, mayhap, or no more than a bad headache because he had eaten too heartily or drunk too deeply. But it was enough for him, being tender and soft from careful rearing.
"See here, you!" he threw at them over his shoulder as he walked the deck. "Mr. Dodd here is going to offer a reward to the first man who strikes the opium in that wreck. There's two ways of making a donkey go both good, I guess: the one's kicks and the other's carrots. Mr. Dodd's going to try the carrots.
The concluding sentences of the speech of Lieutenant Hill forcibly express the extent of the evil. "The country is free from bush-rangers: we are no longer surrounded and threatened by the natives. We have only one enemy left in the field; but that enemy strikes at the very root of our welfare, and through him the stream of our prosperity is tainted at its very source."
If it was an outcurve it seemed certain to pass over the center of the plate, and it would not do to let it pass. It was speedy, and the batter was forced to make up his mind in a fraction of a second. He struck at it and missed! "Three strikes batter out!" called the umpire, sharply.
When the friend who wounds us has once been associated with the sacred memories of the heart, he strikes at a tender place, and no considerations of propriety are powerful enough to stifle our cry of rage and pain. The enemies who have once loved each other are the bitterest enemies of all.
He gambles worse than an Injun, and never has anything more than his riding outfit and the clothes on his back, they tell me. And he fights like a catamount when the notion strikes him; and it doesn't seem to make much difference whether he's got an excuse or not.
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