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After a week's confinement to my room, I was allowed to take half an hour's exercise daily in a narrow strip of yard just twenty-one paces long; it was hedged in with kitchens and all sorts of disagreeable buildings, but the additional space was not to be despised. The utter incongruity of the whole picture struck me so absurdly, that, I believe, I did indulge in a dreary laugh.
And when the preacher was just making up his mind to close the discourse, a large white moth fluttered in at the west door. There was much light throughout the church; but the great blaze came, of course, from the twenty-one candles upon the altar.
Nell, run and open the door more wood on the fire the pheasants for supper and stay, girl, stay there's the key of the cellar the twenty-one port you know it. Ah! ah! God willing, Eugene Aram shall not complain of his welcome back to Grassdale!" Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts. Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Captain William Sharpe was born on the 13th of December, 1742, and was the eldest son of Thomas Sharpe, of Cecil county, Maryland. At the age of twenty-one he came to North Carolina and settled in Mecklenburg county, where he married a daughter of David Reese, one of the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. He was a lawyer by profession and had a large practice.
I heard of the twenty-one shepherds of Bastelica who marched down from their mountains, and routed eight hundred Greeks and Genoese of the garrison of Ajaccio; how at length they were intercepted and slain between the river and the marshes all but one youth, who, stretched among his comrades and feigning death, was taken and led to execution through the streets of the town, carrying six heads, and each a kinsman's.
When he first set eyes upon the girl that was afterwards to become his wife, she was only thirteen years old, and he was twenty-one a sergeant-major in a foot regiment stationed at St. John's in New Brunswick. He was passing the door of her father's house one day in winter, and saw the girl out in the snow, scrubbing a washing-tub. He said at once to himself, "That's the girl for me."
It was claimed that there had never been twenty-one Demands, as the Chinese alleged, but only fourteen, the seven items of Group V being desiderata which it was in the interests of china to endorse but which Japan had no intention of forcing upon her.
Val saw Imogen's eyes admiring him, and his mother still and fashionable with her handkerchief before her lips. Suddenly his uncle spoke. "You're under age." "I thought of that," smiled Val; "I gave my age as twenty-one."
But as for the young and strong, now, no man could be any poorer than I was at twenty-one, I say be cautious how you smooth that hard road which is the finest discipline the young can possibly get." "If it isn't too hard," chirped the son of the host. "Too hard? Well, yes, if it isn't too hard. Still I say, hands off; you needn't turn your back, however." Here the speaker again singled out Dr.
Twenty-one of his orations have come down to us, and they are excessively polished and elaborated; but they were written to be read, they were not extemporary. His language is the purest and most refined Attic dialect. Lysias, 458 B.C., was a fertile writer of orations also, and he is reputed to have produced as many as four hundred and twenty-five; of these only thirty-five are extant.
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