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It has worn upon father, as I could see, and he has been compelled to toil early and late to pay the interest, besides supporting us all." "How much is the mortgage, Tom?" "Twenty-two hundred dollars." "You have made a good beginning towards it already, Tom. You have seven hundred dollars invested in business." "But out of that I owe you a hundred and fifty, Mr. Ferguson."
"I shall always consider it a triumph," resumed the poet, observing that everybody wished for an explanation, "to have stirred to mention on of those men of iron whom Napoleon had the eye to find and make the supporting piles on which he tried to build an empire, too colossal to be lasting: for such structures time alone is the cement. But this triumph why should I be proud of it?
"It's t' little gell, Ned! t' little gell!" said the elder workman to the youth he was supporting. And there in the midst of the blackened crowd of men was a child, frightened and weeping, led tenderly forward by a grey-haired workman, who looked down upon her, quite unconscious of the tears that furrowed his own cheeks. "Oh, let me let me go!" cried Laura. The men about her fell back.
For he is at liberty to employ, in self-defence, the same weapons as his opponent makes use of in attacking him; that is, he has a right to use hypotheses not for the purpose of supporting the arguments in favour of his own propositions, but to show that his opponent knows no more than himself regarding the subject under 'discussion and cannot boast of any speculative advantage.
The Sail is really a canvas kite fastened to the boat. The Bowsprit is the stick projecting from the bow. The Rigging consists of the ropes attached to masts and bowsprit. Stays are strong ropes for supporting the masts fore and aft. Shrouds are strong supporting ropes reaching from the masts to the sides of the boat.
"It seems to me," ventured George, "that one should take the rear, as a guard, the one front keeping within supporting distance of the wagon at all times. In this way we will not run into the party, and we shall then know whether they are still trailing us." This seemed the proper thing to do, and it was followed at once, Harry taking the rear guard and Ralph acting as advance scout.
There was a panic. The whole royal cavalry wavered, the supporting infantry recoiled, the day seemed lost before the battle was well begun. Yells of "Victory! Victory! up with the Holy League, down with the heretic Bearnese," resounded through the Catholic squadrons. The king and Marshal Biron, who were near each other, were furious with rage, but already doubtful of the result.
Corona leaned forward, staring into the dying embers of the fire, one hand supporting her chin. The tears stood in her eyes and on her cheeks. The old dandy in his genuine misery had excited her compassion. "I would mourn you long," she said. "You may have wasted your life; you say so. I would love you more if I could, God knows.
Jackson, meanwhile, constructing a ferry at Mount Crawford, had sent his sick and wounded to Staunton, thus saving them the long detour by Port Republic; and dispatching his stores and prisoners by the more circuitous route, had passed through Harrisonburg to Cross Keys, a clump of buildings on Mill Creek, where, on the night of the 5th, his infantry and artillery, with the exception of a brigade supporting the cavalry, went into bivouac.
The man looked up when he had waited a seeming century for the expected torrent of reproach. She was standing supporting herself upon her downward stretched arms, her hands resting on the table. Her face was pallid and her magnificent figure rigid. The scarlet fullness of her lips had gone bloodless. Her eyes were stupefied.
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