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The habits of the Tarantula, her ambushes, her artifices, her methods of killing her prey: these constitute my subject. I will preface it with an account by Leon Dufour, one of those accounts in which I used to delight and which did much to bring me into closer touch with the insect.
They frequently attempted by false signals to decoy the boats ashore, and in several instances succeeded by these artifices in capturing and murdering whole families, and plundering them of their effects.
What was more, they preserved the peace in spite of Adrian's artifices. "Well, I'll talk to him again," he said. "I'll try to get the Engine on the conventional line." "Command him!" exclaimed Mrs. Doria. "Gentle means are, I think, the only means with Richard," said Lady Blandish. Throwing banter aside, as much as he could, Adrian spoke to Richard. "You want to reform this woman.
They did hold their tongues, and their silence is received as a sincere and free assent. Have not the strangest artifices been adopted to prevent that people from retreating, and to constrain them to an union? It was foreseen, that, as long as they were unable to effect an union, the States would preserve the supreme authority amongst themselves.
I am not fit to walk the world by myself; I am too simple, and am no match for its artifices.”
During a stay of ten weeks at this port, they sufficiently experienced all the artifices of this covetous and fraudulent people, from whom Captain Clipperton had no way to defend himself, and was therefore obliged to submit to all their demands.
Somewhere, somewhere, love is in store for them, the universe must not be allowed to fool them so cruelly. What infinite pathos in the small, half- unconscious artifices by which unattractive young persons seek to recommend themselves to the favor of those towards whom our dear sisters, the unloved, like the rest, are impelled by their God- given instincts!
Her shape was a pained submission; and she thought: Where is the woman who ever knows a man! as women do think when one of their artifices of evasion with a lover, or the trick of imposingness, has apparently been subduing him. But the pain was less than previously, for she was now mistress of herself, fearing no abysses.
I am one of the princes who are stationed beneath the throne of the Lamb, who receive commands for the protection of the gospel, against all its enemies in Hell and in Rome, in France and Constantinople, in Africa and in India, and wheresoever else they are devising artifices for its destruction.
They formed a close alliance with the valet de chambre and his wife, the maîtresse d’habitude, who throughout all the matrimonial pranks of the King managed to preserve her credit by artifices analogous to those which at Versailles had so long maintained that of Madame de Pompadour.
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