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He instigated Naples and Sardinia against Rome, and when the struggle had commenced, he magnanimously hastened to the assistance of his brother-in-law Murat, arrested the pope, conveyed him as a prisoner to France, and declared Rome to be the property of that country until the pope should submit to his will.
He had a good figure, but his height was arrested by his being allowed, when he was a little fellow, to walk twelve to fifteen miles a day with the shooters; and, however tired he would be, he was taken out of bed to play billiards after dinner.
They are, as it were, our own familiar experience, written prophetically and written large. So the blindness that happened to Israel, and arrested their spiritual growth, may be happening no less to any of us. As God gave them the spirit of slumber, so it may be with our lives. And the very thought of our possible risks in this respect is valuable to us.
All the president has to do is to tell the Czar that the Prince is engaged to an American girl, and Lermontoff will be allowed to go." "But," objected the Captain, "as the Prince knows the Englishman is in prison, how could they be sure of John keeping quiet when Drummond is his best friend?" "He cannot know that, because the Prince was arrested several days before Drummond was.
Dixie is not a new, wild country; and therefore does not your scheme to establish not only mines, mills and roads, but stores, banks, schools and churches under the patronage and control of the company imply that as a community and commonwealth you are, in Dixie, in a state of arrested development?
The sweat broke out on the man's face. "You ought to be arrested." Ross took a step toward him. "I'm at your service." "Keep off!" shouted the sheriff. Ross smiled, then became very serious. "I took every precaution, Mr. Deputy; I destroyed everything that could possibly carry the disease. I burned every utensil, including the saddle, everything but the man's horse and his dog!"
Closet warriors in cozy studies, with smooth macadamized roadways before their doors, sneer at the idea of military movements being arrested by mud. I apprehend that these gentlemen have never served in a bad country during the rainy season, and are ignorant of the fact that, in his Russian campaign, the elements proved too strong for the genius of Napoleon.
I had absolutely forgotten the events of the later part of the entertainment. Several bills arrived for windows, which, it seems, I had broken in a moment of effusion. Gendarmes arrived, and would have arrested me on a charge of having knocked down some thirty-seven of their number. This little matter was easily arranged.
Bart was referred to as a young law student at Jefferson, and a resident of the south part of the county, who, as was said, had escaped, and it was supposed that he had gone East, where the officers had gone in pursuit. Most of the others had been arrested. Mrs.
The day ripened; and the hills already cast lengthening shadows over the blazing groves and the still Darro, whose waters, in every creek where the tide was arrested, ran red with blood, when Ferdinand, collecting his whole reserve, descended from the eminence on which hitherto he had posted himself.
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