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"You've seen nobody else?" "Nobody." "Heard nothing?" "Not a sound. They must have gone over the Swiss wire without interference, mon Capitaine." "You sometimes talk across with the Swiss sentinels?" "Oh, yes, if I'm in that humour. You know, mon Capitaine, that they're like the Boche, only tame." "Not all." "No, not all. But in a wolf-pack who can excuse sheepdogs? A Boche is always a Boche."
From the south of Verdun the line extended unbroken and rather straight south and a little easterly to the Swiss frontier.
It was so much better than its predecessors, said the Westminster Review, that one would not suppose it by the same hand. Sismondi, the Swiss historian, wrote the author a letter of thanks and commendation, which was followed by a life-long friendship between these two authors. Mrs.
For when Francis I. of France resolved on invading Italy in order to recover the province of Lombardy, those hostile to his attempt looked mainly to the Swiss, who it was hoped would stop him in passing through their mountains. But this hope was disappointed by the event.
Some years before, the Mexican Government under the clerical and militarist regime had made a contract with a Swiss banker who for a payment of $500,000 had received bonds worth more than fifteen times the value of the loan.
They should not be petted and flattered, neither should they be treated as inferiors. A happy medium is easily found which is what the Guide will prefer, because in his heart of hearts, he has the whole of the Swiss characteristics great dignity, independence and respect for wise people.
Their former experience with the Swiss Guard and the police warranted them in entertaining this hope, but on the present occasion they reckoned without their host, for the soldiers had never before had such intrepid, determined and able leaders. The battle lasted for over an hour and it was not until many had been killed and wounded on both sides that the outlaws began to show signs of wavering.
On the sand in front of the village the Castor-oil plant flourished, the Palma Christi; its little nuts were ripe, and tasted so innocent that, undeterred by the example of the boy in the Swiss Family Robinson, I ate several, and was handsomely punished for it.
And the secretaries, the judges of these decisions, hesitated to pronounce on which side the majority was; they at length, after two attempts, declared that the majority was in favour of the admission of the Swiss; but the minority protested, and the appel nominal was demanded.
According to a "pious belief" the Saint one day was much tormented with the remembrance of the military, and longed to resume her pursuit of them, and she gripped the rock, which yielded like wax to her fingers. Another Swiss rock hermitage is that of the Magdalen near Freiburg, in the cliff on the right bank of the Saane.
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