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'He was evidently, writes Admiral Mundy in reporting the interview, 'not to be swayed by any dictates of prudence. In Sicily, the rival factions were bringing about a state approaching anarchy, but a flying visit from Garibaldi in the middle of September averted the storm. At this time, Garibaldi's headquarters were at Caserta, in the vast palace where Ferdinand II. breathed his last.
He probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me, a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.
The tree swayed back and forth as though some one was moving in its centre, and from amidst the dense foliage a voice exclaimed, "Blast yer hies, vot is yer doing?" "Here, Smith," cried Fred, "there is a cockney countryman of yours up there." "Come down," we roared. "See ye hanged first, and then I von't," repeated the voice in the tree.
He swayed a little. "I Lately I have had to use them sometimes, even when not reading," he murmured. "Thank you! Thank you!" Adrian went back to the chair where his uncle had been sitting. He found the glasses gold pince-nez but they were broken neatly in the middle, lying on the floor, as if they had dropped from someone's hand.
The general view was most imposing, the steep, naked walls, the wild confusion in the crater, the red and yellow precipitates here and there, the vicious-looking smoke from the slits, the steam that floated over the opening, swayed mysteriously by an invisible force, the compactness of the whole picture, in the gigantic frame of the outer walls.
"Oh, God save me!" but still the warders dragged him towards the door. By an herculean effort he swayed them back with him into the middle of the room. "I am not Gurn, I tell you," he shouted. "I am Valgrand, Valgrand the actor. Everybody in the world knows me. You know it too, but Search me, I tell you," and he made a sign with his head towards his left side.
He made so much noise that the landlord came to see what was the matter, and then the barman pointed to where he had left the lobster on the counter. He tucked it under his arm and lurched into the street. Now, Dad could run when he couldn't walk. He swayed a little, then suddenly broke into a run whose speed kept him from falling and preserved his balance like a spinning top.
He is swayed by many strong emotions his business, his ambitions, his friendships, his struggles with the recurrent dangers and difficulties which tax a man's wisdom and his courage. Love will often play a subordinate part in his life. How many go through the world without ever loving at all?
It swayed and shook with a curious regular tremble as the feet came down; but there was no giving way of tie and stringer-beam, and Dick forgot the men who were passing, and thought of fastenings and stressed material. He was young and the pomp of war had its effect on him, but the human element began to take second place.
"Then why don't you do it?" shouted the numismatist, who had completely lost his temper. "I didn't come here to act at an ambulance; but, since I must, do you take his head." I took his head, Madeleine walked in front, Jeanne behind. My uncle's vast proportions swayed between M. Charnot and myself. M. Charnot, who had skilfully gathered up the legs, looked like a hired pallbearer.
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