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To his right were two stately gates of iron fantastically wrought, supported by stone pillars on whose summits stood griffins of black marble embracing coats of arms, and banners inscribed with the device Per ardua ad astra.
"If you'll let up on perishing for half a minute, Rapunzel, I'll to the rescue," Vic cried, "if I have to climb the dome and knock the per aspera out of the State Seal and come down through the hole, per astra ad aspera." And then he rushed off to find an unlocked exit to the building. From the Chapel end of the circular stairs, he called presently. "Curfew must not ring for a couple of seconds.
Non sic itur ad astra. Self-indulgence and exclusiveness can only be a proof of weakness. It may accompany talent, but it proves that talent to be partial and defective. The brain may be large, but the manhood, the "virtus," is small, where such things are allowed, much more where they are gloried in. A poet such a man may be, but a world poet never.
Cadell is most anxious on the subject. He thinks that two years hence £10,000 may be made of a new edition. For description of bounds see Chronicles of the Canongate, p. 7. By the author of Waverley, etc. SIC ITUR AD ASTRA, motto of Canongate arms. In two vols. The Two Drovers, The Highland Widow, The Surgeon's Daughter. Edinburgh, printed for Cadell and Co., and Simpkin Marshall. London 1827.
The book was published early in April under the following title: Chronicles of the Canongate, Second Series, by the Author of Waverley, etc., "SIC ITUR AD ASTRA" Motto of Canongate Arms, in three volumes.
That their efforts might be simultaneous, those who held the blanket, and they were legion, made use of the following neat hexameter: "Ibis ab excusso, missus ab astra, sago." And you go with a vengeance. "You shall fly from the quivering blanket, despatched to the stars."
The runners in the night that furred monkey race of hunters who combed the moonless dark of Astra when most of the higher fauna were asleep were very distantly related to Sssuri's species, though the gap between them was that between highly civilized man and the jungle ape.
Top floor jolly stiff climb when a fellow's all lit up like the Hotel Doodledum per arduis ad astra through labour to the stars fine motto. Flying Corps' motto my motto. Goo' night!" Off came his hat again and he staggered up the broad stone stairs and disappeared round a turn. Later they heard his door slam. "Awful and yet " "And yet?" echoed the doctor. "I thought he was funny. I nearly laughed.
He was a scholarly writer, an able preacher, a sympathetic pastor and a loyal friend. Among his published writings were The Perfect Prayer, The Sacramental Feast, The Way to the Cross and a volume of poems entitled Ad Astra. He died in the prime of his life, September 9th, 1917. Who that knew him will ever forget the genial spirit of Charles Armand Miller?
In the earlier Astra Torres, trimming was accomplished by moving the car fore and aft this in itself was an advance on the separate 'sliding weigh' principle and this was the method followed in the Astra Torres bought by the British Government from France in 1912 for training airship pilots.
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