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He pushed his soft black hat back from his rumpled crest of gray hair and commanded Minna Vielhaber to break a municipal ordinance which had received his official sanction. Herman cheerily combed his red beard and scoffed at his late opponent. "It makes dark," Minna reminded him. "You should have light." Herman lighted two lamps suspended above the tables.
The candles suspended among the evergreens had burnt down to their sockets, and in some cases the leaves tied about them were scorched. Many of the lights had quite gone out, others smoked and stank, grease dropping from them upon the floor.
The substance of the original Act was gone, but the Senate sought shelter from its record of inconsistency under the small shadow of this distant and hypothetical restoration of the suspended officer. But the House would not consent that even the small shadow should remain.
As he ran he put his hand into his pocket and took out the branched stick from which the sling for shooting squirrels was suspended.
The show was splendid; 50,000 troops, horse, foot, and artillery, all in the highest order and condition, marched along the boulevards; and in the midst appeared the youthful Czar and the King of Prussia, followed by a dazzling suite of princes, ambassadors, and generals. The crowd was so great that their motion, always slow, was sometimes suspended.
All the authorities speak of fellowships in colleges as freeholds, notwithstanding the fellows may be liable to be suspended or removed, for misbehavior, by their constituted visitors.
There are times when wild thoughts enter a man's heart, when he seems almost irresponsible for his act and his deed. The Captain stood on the weather-side of the deck. Sideways, on an unobstructed line with him, was the opening of the lee-gangway, where the side-ladders are suspended in port.
Continuous stormy weather having suspended steam traffic with the mainland, the visitors had no choice but to remain prisoners some two months more, during which the deluge went on with little intermission. Still, to young and romantic imaginations the island and life in the ex-monastery offered considerable charm.
The mother nurses the infant in her arms during most of her leisure moments, and she hushes it to sleep by crooning old lullabies as she rocks it in her arms or in a cradle suspended from a pliable stick.
In later life he said: "If you shoot, the squire and the poacher both consider you as their natural enemies, and I thought it more clerical to be at peace with both." His eldest son. Compare "The Sixth Commandment in suspended, by one medical diploma, from the North of England to the South." Essay on "Persecuting Bishops." Addressed to Mrs. Henry Howard.
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