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Born of that darkness, an evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries in commercial experience; that her thousands of miles of railroads and telegraphs, her mines and forges, her arsenals and factories, her docks and fleets, are being put in order for the use of foreign capital; that her admirable army and her heroic navy may be doomed to make their last sacrifices in hopeless contest against some combination of greedy states. provoked or encouraged to aggression by circumstances beyond the power of Government to control.... But the statesmanship that has already guided Japan through many storms should prove able to cope with this gathering peril.
And the Lord saith, speaking through a certain Sutra: "My disciples that shall be, they that are sinners because of the lost way and love of evil things, it is they that shall destroy my holy doctrine." Whoso blasphemeth the doctrine of the Holy Name shall suffer without ceasing, for he shall fall into the depth of the Hell of Avichi for eighty thousands of Kalpas.
Atoms are composed of thousands of ions, as they are called, really little electric charges. Again, you know that we have found that all the elements fall into groups. Each group has certain related atomic weights and properties which can be and have been predicted in advance of the discovery of missing elements in the group.
In contrast with their other new French acquaintances the two American girls now found the old peasant and his wife a real satisfaction. Their vocabularies were not large and they spoke in a halting, simple fashion not difficult to translate. Their story was not unlike the story of thousands of other families in the stricken regions of France.
Said we, one day, for he was one of that delightful class whom everybody feels privileged to be related to, "Uncle, uncle, how is it that you contrive to be so happy? Why is your face so cheerful, when so many thousands are craped over with a most uncomfortable gloominess?"
The girl leaving school when she is fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen, who is able to read and write correctly and who has a thorough knowledge of the common rules of arithmetic can hope to obtain a position in a store. Having once obtained a position in a large store, the girl will find herself part of an establishment where perhaps hundreds or thousands of people are employed.
When I think of the thousands of dollars I've wasted on you It's cheating it's cheating! You have been stealing from me!" Madam Bowker's tone was almost unladylike; her ebon staff was flourishing threateningly. Margaret started up. "I warned you at the outset!" she cried. "I took nothing from you that you didn't force on me.
Some spend fifty thousand I know several who go over a hundred." "It's monstrous!" Montague exclaimed. "Fiddlesticks!" was the other's response. "Why, thousands of people live by it wouldn't know anything else to do." Montague said nothing to that. "Can you afford to have Alice compete with such women indefinitely?" he asked. "I have no idea of her doing it indefinitely," was Oliver's reply.
"No, Macumazahn, you must not wait, you must go, and the Star must take her chance. She is strong. It is nothing. All will be well." "Why do you say so? why must we go?" "For this reason, Macumazahn," and he looked cautiously round and spoke low. "The baboons have come back in thousands. All the mountain is full of them." "I did not know that they had gone," I said.
In the evening the whole squadron was illuminated; thousands of lanterns hung from the masts, yards, and rigging, forming a beautiful scene.
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