United States or São Tomé and Príncipe ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Though he should extort from her all her secret, that would be her strength. Though she should have to tell him of her failing health, her certainly failing health, though even that should be necessary, she certainly would not be won from her purpose.
The year 1911 was also marked by the appointment of the first Negro policeman in New York, by the election of the first Negro legislator in Pennsylvania, and by the appointment of a man of the race, William H. Lewis, as Assistant Attorney General of the United States; and several civil rights suits were won in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey.
Each kiss had been a tribute of admiration, for was she not splendid amazing more to be desired than wine? He stood with bowed head, lest the triumph in his eyes offend her. Yet if any one had asked him how he knew that he had won, he never could have told.
Her white fingers clenched, her arms thrown back, her breast panting beneath the lace, her proud face looking defiance into his no one but a prince could have braved this princess. "What have I done?" she cried a second time. "I have only fought for myself, and if I have won, so much the greater credit. I am your wife. I have done nothing the law can touch.
Perhaps the Chazy County people did not recognize these deficiencies, for the new paper certainly created a vast amount of excitement and won the praise of nearly all who read it.
They seem to have felt that the political pulse was not healthy, and that no credit was to be won, either for themselves or for the Reform cause, while the morbid symptoms continued. The worst symptom of all in their eyes was the ascendency of Mackenzie and his satellites among the rural and uneducated part of the community.
Had he been alone, it is possible that the larger man might have won. But Mike had never been fond of people who pulled guns on him, even if they were only sleepy guns. Between the two of them, the Security guard was lucky not to lose his life in the first two seconds of battle.
Her nose shall be as red as the coal in thy pipe! Her front teeth shall drop out! In a week hence she shall not be worth thy having." "Let her alone, mother," answered poor Feathertop. "The girl was half won, and methinks a kiss from her sweet lips might have made me altogether human. But," he added after a brief pause and then a howl of self-contempt, "I've seen myself, mother!
"It was for you because you won, I suppose," remarked Miss Pennington, in a disagreeable tone. "Not at all," returned Alice, promptly. "It was a glorious race anyhow. Winning didn't count; it was all for the picture." "That's the way to look at it," said Paul, in her ear. "But, all the same, I'm glad your boat won." "Thanks," she replied, as she tripped along beside him.
Wrote Sir Henry Maine, "It is not at all easy to bring home to the men of the present day how low the credit of republics had sunk before the establishment of the United States." Hardly were success to be won had we fallen upon quiet times; but with free governments discredited, and the word "liberty" made a reproach by the course of the French Revolution, it would seem impossible.
Word Of The Day