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They performed the barbarous deed with shouts of vengeance and exultation. There is, however, something very solemn and awful in a great conflagration at night, and very few incendiaries can gaze upon the fury of the lurid and frightful flames which they have caused to ascend without some misgivings and some remorse. Alexander was sobered by the grand and sublime, but terrible spectacle.

"'An' all hard-earned money, too, said old Aaron; 'we've been a- sailin, an' a-fightin', an' a-shootin' folks, an a-stabbin' on 'em, an' a-slittin' of their wind-pipes, an' a-walkin' 'em on The Plank, for sixty-five year come the sixteenth o' next August. "'Well, what do you want? asked Black Pedro again. His voice was low, but terrible.

But Perrine's presence had no effect upon the terrible aunt. Seeing Rosalie arrive at such an unusual hour, and noticing that her hand was wrapped up, she cried out shrilly: "Now, then, you've gone and hurt yourself, you lazy bones. I bet you did it on purpose." "Oh, I'm goin' to be paid," retorted Rosalie, scornfully. "You think so, do you?" "Monsieur Vulfran told me that I should."

Had every State done its duty as Virginia has we should never have been overpowered. It has been a terrible four years, and there are few families indeed that have no losses to mourn." "It was well you were not in Richmond, mother, the day of the riots." "Yes; but we had our trouble here too, Vincent.

Our own drinks were coming by now, and as the steward stirred about, Llewellyn for the first time saw me. "Hello! Where did you come from? I thought you had gone back to the States." "I've been past the isthmus," I replied, "and I haven't seen a soul or heard a word in that time. What's this terrible thing about young David?"

On that terrible day, when the universal injustice was committed and Jesus Christ was crucified in Golgotha among robbers on that day, from early morning, Ben-Tovit, a tradesman of Jerusalem, suffered from an unendurable toothache.

Ignorance is the cause of all evil; but the special cause of this great, terrible, devastating wrong starts with the utter lack of the education of children by their parents, especially of the necessary instruction of girls regarding their own natural functions, and their relationship to men.

They had gone there to get out of the wind and it was by only a chance that I rode down into it. "She was in the bottom, huddled against a rock, and didn't see me until I was nearly on her. I thought she was sick she looked terrible." "And was she?" "No she was worried." "Naturally. Any woman would be who married Toomey." "About money." "Indeed." His tone and smile were ironic.

Her love for you must have been something terrible when she came to you knowing and confessing herself guilty, risking rebuff and contempt at your hands. Believe me, you will regret it, for I am satisfied that you will soon be cured." There was such an air of simple conviction about my friend's words, such a despairing certainty based on experience, that I shuddered as I listened.

Carson was threatened with a terrible disaster, the greatest in all her history, and even these boys could experience something of the sensation of awe that had begun to pass through the whole community.