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"Do you think they will shoot through them?" I asked. He halted, with the end of a bench in his grasp, and looked at me. "Bill, if I didn't know better I'd swear that you are not of the South. Don't you know that if you enrage white trash it is likely to do anything? Don't you know that consequences are never counted?" "I know all that," I replied, "but I was considering the incentive.

He said to me: 'My pearl, my turtledove, my diamond, see here, I place this ring on your finger and swear to be true to you. But I can't marry you as long as that other woman lives who wears my betrothal ring, for our laws forbid it. That woman dwells in the big house at Toroczko. You know her name and know what to do to enable me to marry you."

I won't stir one step in Germany if I don't feel like it; I swear I won't! Cancel everything, everything. Heavens! I couldn't play if I tried! You managers are like the old man of the mountain; you want to sit on my neck and lash me on as if I were Sinbad. All for the sake of a few dirty roubles to put in your pocket! What do I care? I won't do it, I tell you.

"All that she is willing to gain in my service." "Oh! my lord, you are a joking." "No," said he. "Yes," said she. "By St. Gatien, St. Eleuther, and by the thousand million saints who are in heaven, I swear that " "Ah! Well; if you are not jesting I should like those fagots to pass through the hands of the notary." "By the blood of Christ and the charms of your daughter am I not a gentleman?

The bright-haired lady will offer thee her daughter." Völsunga gives additional details: Brynhild knows her deliverer to be Sigurd Sigmundsson and the slayer of Fafni, and they swear oaths to each other.

"Never mind about the others, for the present," replied Houston coolly, "what you have said to-night is likely to come to the ears of the company, and what I want to know is this; would you swear in court to what you have said here?" "I tell you," said Mr.

I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests; And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;

Already Andor had interposed; he, too, was pale and menacing, but he did not raise his voice nor did he swear, he only asked very quietly: "What will you tell your fiancée, man? Come! What is it that you want to tell her on the eve of her wedding day?" "What's that to you?" retorted Béla.

It was imperative that his goods should be brought under cover before the storm should break. Again the good Bishop urged Macmillan to more strenuous effort. "We can't stay here all night, sir," he said. "Surely something can be done." "Well, I'll tell Your Lordship, it's one of two things, stick or swear, and there's nothing else for it." "Well, well, Mr.

"You can't send a bloke up on th' say so of a Missin' Link," he said. "You can't put a monkey in the witness box t' swear a man's character away." "I don't know," said the Professor. "That's a delicate point of law, but we may as well have a word with the constable about it." The shearers didn't stay to take part in the consultation with the constable Professor Thunder had not expected them to.