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With his genuine love of fighting, he rather welcomed any awkward situation in which men were concerned. It was a challenge to him, and he would carry himself through with a mixture of brass, bravado and downright hard fighting.

A return trip to their hotel, a visit to various localities for films, then to pack their belongings and the automatic camera did not take them long and they were soon journeying down the coast again. They were welcomed warmly by the members of the theatrical colony. As I have said, for the purpose of being unhampered in their work of taking films, Mr.

Among the squatted circle there were a bandy-legged drummer, and a blotched-faced fifer, from the adjacent barracks, both in their regimentals. They rose, and capped to my uniform. We were welcomed with shouts of congratulations.

A greater part of the people of Missouri were emigrants from the United States, pioneers of the West, who had already resisted Indian aggressions, and were welcomed by the French and Spanish settlers as a clear accession to their military strength, A brief notice of the history of this State, showing how the different kinds of population came there, will be not inappropriate in this place.

She had grown reconciled to the perturbation of his messages, and would have preferred to have him startling and thrilling her from a distance; but seeing him, she welcomed him, and feeling in his bright presence not the faintest chill of the fit of shyness, she took her bravery of heart for a sign that she had reached his level, and might own it by speaking of the practical measures to lead to their union.

Welcomed into their group, and made the confidant of their difficulty, Selden learned with amusement that there were several places where one might miss something by not lunching, or forfeit something by lunching; so that eating actually became a minor consideration on the very spot consecrated to its rites.

For in the old world death was welcomed as a friend, and seldom was a man found who dared to buy his life at the cost of his disgrace. 'The struggle between the captives, said Hannibal to his army, 'is an emblem of the struggle between Carthage and Rome.

A fleet of fifty-four vessels, covered with flags and streamers, conveyed him and his retinue, together with the large deputation which had welcomed him at Flushing, to the great commercial metropolis.

"Are you feeling up to work?" Sara nodded indifferently. "Quite," she said. "I shouldn't have come otherwise." Miles welcomed her joyfully. "Bless you, my dear!" he exclaimed. "You're the very woman I wanted to see. I'm snowed under with fool letters from females anxious to entertain 'our poor, brave, wounded officers. Head 'em off, will you?" He thrust a bundle of letters into her hands.

The mental acknowledgment brought relief for a few seconds. She was tired. The woman in here went out to the man in Cunningham, and she welcomed a protector. Then the Scots blood raced to the assistance of the woman, and she bridled instantly. Who, then, was this chance-met jackanapes, that she should lean on him or look to him for guidance?