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Again, in the days of Muḥammad, observe that there were twelve dawning-points of holiness, the manifestors of God’s confirming help. Such is the way of it. Accordingly did Saint John the Divine tell of twelve gates in his vision, and twelve foundations. The meaning of the passage is that this heavenly Jerusalem hath twelve gates, through which the blessed enter into the City of God.
The Princess Helen turned deadly pale: but the Prince, with a good assurance, flung down his own glove, calling upon some one to raise the Rowski's; which Otto accordingly took up and presented to him, on his knee.
You know you told me that the weak minds have warm hearts and my mind must be very, very weak indeed, for my heart is very warm quite hot for my mother." The wizard perceived that incipient rebellion was in the air, so, like a wise man, a true angekok, he trimmed his sails accordingly. "Bring your mother with you," he said abruptly. "But she won't come." "Command her to come."
But Dick was to prove his mettle in quite another fashion before long; for the strong south-westerly breeze which the Concordia encountered on her seventh day out rapidly developed into so furious a gale that, after battling with it for some fourteen hours, Captain Roberts decided to heave-to under close-reefed fore and main topsails, and at eight bells noon the order was accordingly given to clew up and furl the already reefed courses, and to haul down and stow the fore-topmast staysail.
"There was yet a visit to the doctor. 'A simple formality, assured me the secretary, with an air of taking an immense part in all my sorrows. Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose, there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead, came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.
To some people the place of war in the economy of nations appears to be unsatisfactory. They think war wicked and a world where it exists out of joint. Accordingly they devote themselves to suggestions for the abolition of war and for the discovery of some substitute for it.
This notion we may well believe was of popular origin, though elaborated in the schools to conform to a developed astrological science. The stars and moon never passed beyond certain limits, and, accordingly, the view was developed which gave to the canopy of heaven fixed boundaries. At each end of the canopy was a great gate, properly guarded.
Accordingly a boat put off to her assistance, and brought her safe into the harbour: since which time she has continued to patronize the watermen of Boulogne.
Accordingly we take the ferry-boat across to Scutari on Thursday afternoon in time to visit the English cemetery before the dervishes begin their peculiar services.
Accordingly, the same boat started out again, with three new men in place of those who were wounded, and for sake of effect the cruiser steamed farther in toward shore. This time there were no crowds upon the beach, and the thirty men marched to the burning buildings, where the natives fell before them, begging for mercy.
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