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"'Oh, figs! says I. 'Is it thus? Strong drink is an adder and subtractor, too. Is it the heat or the call of the wild that's got you? "But High Jack is too full of exaltation and cane-juice to reply.
Trusting to Him, and by His power and life within us, we may conquer our evil. Trusting to Him, and for the sake of His blood shed for us all upon the cross, we are delivered from the burden, guilt, and power of our sins and of our sin. With thy hand in His, and thy will submitted to Him, 'thou shalt tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the dragon thou shalt trample under foot.
The adder of the Visconti, the cross of Savoy, and the imperial eagle were seen side by side with the mulberry-tree and other favourite devices of the Moro and his race, while all manner of strange and fantastic emblems were introduced by private owners, and one house exhibited the effigy of a crocodile, "a creature never before seen," remarks the historian, Tristan Calco, "in our city."
The road which led thither was evidently but seldom trodden. It abounded in sunken ruts, wherein lurked the adder. It led by sullen pools, where the bittern boomed and the pike swam, his silver side glittering like a streak of light beneath the dark surface, as he sought his finny prey. Now it was marshy and muddy, now it was tangled with thorns, now impeded by fallen trees.
But on opening the case, in the same instant that she saw them gleam she saw a letter lying above them. She knew the handwriting of the address. It was as if an adder had lain on them. Her heart gave a leap which seemed to have spent all her strength; and as she opened the bit of thin paper, it shook with the trembling of her hands. But it was legible as print, and thrust its words upon her.
'Adder conveyed the information of her husband's flight to the consolable Amy, said Mrs. Lawrence. 'He had to catch the coach for Dover, Adderwood explained. 'His wife was at a dinner-party. I saw her at midnight. 'Fair Amy was not so very greatly surprised? 'Quite the soldier's wife! 'She said she was used to these little catastrophes. But, Adder, what did she say of her husband?
"When the words were uttered I sat up upon the topmost step of the gallery; for some time I felt stunned in somewhat the same manner as I once subsequently felt after being stung by an adder. I soon arose, however, and retired to my bed, where, notwithstanding what I had done, I was not slow in falling asleep.
What do you mean?" "Your amaryllis not the flower itself, but what it stands for to me." "Still, I do not " "Not when you recall what I told you about that frightful puff adder that I was stooping to pick an amaryllis when the hideous creature struck at me?" "You mentioned something about a snake, but there was so much else "
"Why, Aunt Linda," said Robert, "there are numbers of things the Lord has made that I wouldn't touch with a pair of tongs." "What are they?" "Rattlesnakes, scorpions, and moccasins." "Oh, sho!" "Aunt Linda," said Iola, "the Bible says that the wine at last will bite like a serpent and sting like an adder."
I will draw out the fangs of this royal adder, so that he cannot bite any more! Bring the man before me. The republic is an angry goddess, and demands a royal offering. Give this impostor into my hands, or something worse will happen! Go, and I advise you to bring me, before the sun goes down, the tidings that this fabled King Louis is arrested, or the sun of your good fortune is set forever!
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