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3 Primarily, the rescript is applicable only where freedom is conferred by a will. How then will the case stand, if a man who dies intestate makes gifts of freedom by codicils, and on the intestacy no one accepts the inheritance? We answer, that the boon conferred by the constitution ought not here to be refused.
One doesn't expect it of them, and, unlikely as it is, one isn't often deceived. I think we'd better talk no more about it." "You mean I had better go." "I think so. I am going to marry soon." The other started nervously. "You needn't be so shocked. I will come back one day, but not till your wife dies, or you have a child, as I said." The Governor rose to his feet, and went to the door.
"I did try to stop him." "Why?" He looked at her sharply, as if he were trying to find out something, to fix responsibility. "Because I knew." "You couldn't have known if nobody told you." "I did know. If he dies I shall have killed him. I ought to have stopped him. I was the only one who knew." "You couldn't have stopped him. You were only a child yourself when it happened.
The action and movement thus seem to run like a wave through the body, greatest where it begins in the hand, and gradually diminishing as it dies away in the foot.
There are desert birds that silently surround a rattlesnake, as he sleeps, with little bundles of cactus-heads and their million needles, so that, when the reptile wakes, it cannot escape through the palisade of bristling weapons by which it is surrounded; and in ghoulish anger it strikes its fangs into its own body until it dies.
The efficiency of a steamship consists not so much in her courage as in the power she carries within herself. It beats and throbs like a pulsating heart within her iron ribs, and when it stops, the steamer, whose life is not so much a contest as the disdainful ignoring of the sea, sickens and dies upon the waves.
When a Parsee dies, his body is borne reverently and with care to the gardens on the hill, but instead of burying it in the earth, these men take it up the winding stairs of one of the towers and lay it on the roof, and then retire. The vultures do the rest!
Each time the thermometer is drawn from his mouth an ever new-born hope which has risen dies with the whispered score, but still the heart pumps strenuously, telling of life and hope the while. On the morning of the sixth day the score is down a degree.
Who and what dies and is reborn? Your lower self, your personality. "Sometimes naked, sometimes mad, Now as a scholar, again as a fool Here a rebel, there a saint, Thus they appear on the earth the Perfect Ones. Paramhamsas" Viveka Chudamani.
"I ain't thinkin' of reason. I'm thinkin' of old Sam an' his wife." "And if we turn him loose?" "He'll be your man till he dies." Calder scowled. "The whole range is filled with these silent partners of the outlaws but maybe you're right, Dan. Look at them now!"
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