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Where early in the morning it had appeared as if the attack were succeeding reserve battalions were sent in to the support of those in front, and as unhesitatingly and steadily as at drill they entered the blanket of shell-smoke with its vivid flashes and hissing of shrapnel bullets and shell-fragments. Commanders, I found, stood in awe of the steadfast courage of their troops.
I'm no Samson. I can't hold the world on my back all the time, though I can support a piece of it part of the time. Do something!" "I I can't," wailed the Fat Woman. "There goes the train, too. We'll be left." "No, we won't." "Yes, we shall." "No; we won't be left, 'cause 'cause we're left already. Wow! I'm going! Save yourself!"
The others, three in number, were grouped together for the same reason; for poor little Atty who, though so very young, was his mother's only support, and hope, and consolation sat with an arm about each, in order, as well as he could, to keep off the cold the night being stormy and bitter.
In order to live quietly and support themselves in those days of ignorance, many poets sought the shadow of the Church and wore its vestments. Lope de Vega, Calderon, Tirsode Molina, Miradamerscua, Tarriga, Argensola, Gongora, Rioja, and others were priests, many of them after stormy lives.
The object of his visit was very evident. He at once entered into the subject of the Duke of Monmouth's enterprise, and used every argument he could think of to induce his friends to support it.
The roots would start out of the tree three feet above the ground and stand out at an angle, and looked like big planks placed edgewise. It seemed as if there were too many plants for the ground to support, and so they grew on the big limbs of the trees all around, the same as the mistletoe on the oak, only there were ever so many different kinds.
There was one common cause Miss Strictland even deigned to assist Mr. Vivian, and to try her awkward hand to forward his canvass, for it was to support the Glistonbury interest; and "there was no impropriety could attach to the thing."
When doing this for the first few times, her teacher should support her, in order to give her confidence, and the groom, if necessary, should hold the horse, which should of course be a quiet animal.
Griffin caught sight of it at the same moment, and seemed amazed. Were they Confederates or National? was the question to be decided instantly. They might be his own support.
Hogarth's own Swinton agent, that he was a most unpopular man in the county, and that it was a mistake on the earl's part to support him, very nearly brought down a member of the Reform Club to force him to retire after his canvass was made, and his majority counted as small but safe.
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