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In default of the liberty of my hands to strangle him, I bit him in the face, near the neck. The "horse-dealers" and their keepers threw themselves upon me; but bearing with all my weight upon the hideous old debauchee, who was howling at the top of his voice, I kept my teeth in his flesh.
When the bill was brought in, Charles Townshend concluded a speech in its favor with words to the following effect: "And now will these Americans, children planted by our care, nourished up by our indulgence, till they are grown to a degree of strength and opulence, and protected by our arms will they grudge to contribute their mite to relieve us from the heavy weight of that burden which we lie under?"
Hervey moved cautiously in along the limb to a point where he felt sure that it would hold his weight, and as he did so it moved slowly up into place. What the little householder thought of all this topsy-turvy business it might be amusing to know.
I had almost made up my mind to kill you when I came back to this Maison de Mort Rouge. It is the justice of God that I kill you!" The two men circled, like beasts in a pit, Howland in the attitude of a boxer, Jean with his shoulders bent, his arms slightly curved at his side, the toes of his moccasined feet bearing his weight. Suddenly he launched himself at the other's throat.
Still, I believe it is more democratic to do without one. Besides, I ought to walk rather than ride. It keeps my weight down. There is Ronny. She could have a dozen cars here if she wanted them. She won't have one. She is a real democrat, isn't she?" Marjorie nodded. "She is the most unassuming very rich girl I have ever known.
For us all it is true that custom presses on us 'with a weight, heavy as frost and deep almost as life, and that it is as hard for the Ethiopian to change his skin or the leopard his spots as for those who 'are accustomed to do evil' to 'do good.
May not the references to Horace be a characteristic of humanism? An opinion backed by the weight of classical authority must reach us with irresistible force, must it not? However this may be, the predominant influence in De los nombres de Cristo, as in all Luis de Leon's prose, is Scriptural and Christian.
Just give me a letter to the president, have they elected officers yet? where do they meet? and tell him I'll call on him and throw all the weight of my influence on his side. It's wonderful! Handel, Moliere, Buddha, was it Buddha? Caesar, Petrarch, and Wellington, no, not Wellington. Never mind, I'll get a list from you to-morrow and look it all up, it's perfectly marvellous!
"Men say that Alwa has no right to it; they lie! His father's father won the dower-right!" He was interrupted by the rising of the iron gate. It seemed solid, without even an eyehole in it. It was wide enough to let four horses under side by side, and for all its weight it rose as suddenly and evenly as though a giant's hand had lifted it.
For all you know you got hay fever, eh! Hay fever!" And he laughed as though to salve his words. "I got all them things on the red-printed list, I tell you. I I got 'em all, night sweats and all. I I got 'em." "Sure you got 'em, missy; but that don't need to mean nothin' much." "I got 'em, I tell you." "Losin' weight?" "Feel." He inserted two fingers in her waistband. "Huh!" "You a doctor?"
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