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Our division, after we left it, deployed into line, and, in advancing, met and routed the French infantry; but, in following up their advantage, they encountered a furious charge of cavalry, and were obliged to throw themselves into squares to receive it.
Seven-and-twenty white men made a very compact force to throw away on a war that had neither beginning nor end a jungle and stockade fight that flickered and smouldered through the wet hot years in the hills a hundred miles away, and was the heritage of every wearied official.
"Exactly, sir. In fact now, Mr. Mayble," Reuben continued, more impressively, and advancing a little closer still to the vicar, "father there is a perfect figure o' wonder, in the way of being fond of music!" The vicar drew back a little further, the tranter suddenly also standing back a foot or two, to throw open the view of his father, and pointing to him at the same time.
A force up at the apex is in a perfect trap, for the mobile enemy can flood into the country to the south of them, cut the line of supplies, and throw up a series of entrenchments which would make retreat a very difficult matter.
"I don't say but what they're nice girls enough, but in your place you no need to throw yourself away." Lemuel thought of the awe of Miss Carver in which he lived, and the difference between them; and he could have laughed at his mother's ignorant pride. What would she say if she knew that he was engaged to a girl that worked in a box-factory?
"He throwed you off right into the dirt didn't he throw you right off into the dirt, Merton?" With a harsher show of authority, or perhaps merely because he was bearded so unreasoning are the inhibitions of the young Gashwiler stilled the tumult. The dancing died. "What's this mean?" he repeated. "We nearly had an accident," said the lady. "What's this mean?"
"No, I want to find something," replied Jack. He went over to the waste paper baskets standing on the floor in one corner and began to turn out their contents. "The fellow may have torn out the fly leaf before," he thought, "but it looks like a fresh tear. If so, and he did not keep the leaf or throw it away somewhere it will probably be here."
"He is the manliest-looking man that I have ever seen; and I have seen a good many more men than you. There is not a man you know whom he could not throw across the canal down there. Sir Keith Macleod a beauty man! I think he could take on a good deal more polishing, and curling, and smoothing without any great harm.
About the middle of June the separation actually occurred not by mutual consent, so far as any published documents throw light on the matter, but rather by Shelley's sudden abandonment of his wife and child.
Even the slightest word of encouragement from Alexander Petrovitch could throw a lad into a transport of tremulous joy, and arouse in him an honourable emulation of his fellows. Boys of small capacity he did not long retain in his establishment; whereas those who possessed exceptional talent he put through an extra course of schooling.
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