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She replied: "My son, that was not a hare, but a dragon. It kills and throttles many people." Hearing this, the prince was somewhat disturbed, and said to the old woman: "What shall we do now? Doubtless my two brothers also have perished here." The old woman answered: "They have indeed; but there's no help for it. Go home, my son, lest you follow them."
It is the principle of those who favor government regulation that only by governmental restraint can free competition continue, and everybody be assured of a square deal; their opponents argue that such restraint throttles ambition and is destructive of the highest efficiency that comes as a survival of the fittest in the economic struggle.
Mind how you go in for a penny ice unawares. "Pray, step this way," says a quiet person at the door. You enter into a back room: a quiet room; rather a dark room. "Pray, take your place in a chair." And she goes to fetch the penny ice. Malheureux! The chair sinks down with you sinks, and sinks, and sinks a large wet flannel suddenly envelopes your face and throttles you. Need we say any more?
But a great Prince and Light of the Universe, who procures abortions and throttles little babies, dwindles away into such a frightful insignificance of crime, that those may respect him who will. I pity their Excellencies the Ambassadors, who are obliged to smirk and cringe to such a rascal.
Danger in our land walks openly, and with his blade drawn, and defies the foe whom he means to assault; but here he challenges you with a silk glove instead of a steel gauntlet, cuts your throat with the feather of a turtle-dove, stabs you with the tongue of a priest's brooch, or throttles you with the lace of my lady's boddice.
In virtue, in intelligence, in real worth, this half compare favorably with the other half who saw wood, and shovel sand, and pull throttles, and prepare briefs, and write sermons. The business of agriculture provides directly for the material welfare of nearly forty millions of our people.
Is it not rather your street-pavement's patter of raindrops, incessantly in motion, and as fruitful? Mr. Semhians appeals to Delphica. 'Genius you have, says she, stiffening his neck-band, 'genius in superabundance': he throttles to the complexion of the peony: 'perhaps criticism is wanting. Dr.
A quadruple stream of motors, bellowing warnings at one another, roaring with suddenly opened throttles, squealing under sudden applications of the brake, occupied the roadway and served more than the mere distance would have done, to isolate the pair that had the east sidewalk all to themselves. He couldn't be looking for a better place to talk than this, Rose thought. Why didn't he begin?
If the first snap at the critical moment, should we bow-string our precious throttles with the pieces? Far be it from us!
A hundred yards, the beams knocking down the snow above and all but covering the engines which forced their way through, only to leave as high a mass behind; while the whole mountain seemed to tremble; while the peaks above sent back roar for roar, and grim, determined men pulled harder than ever at the throttles and waited, for the breath of night again, or the crash of the avalanche.
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