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"Well, I think it's rotten, if you'll excuse my French," laughed Miss Plympton, as she cut a square of butter off the common dish and passed it to me. "And I guess you think so, too, only you're too polite to roast the grub like the rest of us do. But you'll get over that in time. I was just the same way when I first begun living in boarding-houses, but I've got bravely over that now.
The enemy were soon driven by our ordnance from their boats, yet many of them continued in the water up to their girdles to resist the landing of our troops, annoying them as much as possible with stones, spears, and arrows. They were at length driven from the water by our ordnance, but rallied again on the shore, and bravely resisted our people in landing for a long time.
He was absorbed in what he was hearing, and, on seeing Joe at the door, he had only just nodded his head. The young man was becoming so frequent a visitor as to be almost one of themselves. Daisy read out: "The Avenger: A " And then she stopped short, for the next word puzzled her greatly. Bravely, however, she went on. "A the-o-ry." "Go in do!" whispered Mrs. Bunting to her visitor.
From my seat behind the desk I caught sight through the door, as it was opened by a chance caller, of the gang on the opposite corner, with Jones and his hickory club, and knew what was coming. I knew Jones, too, and awaited his debut as a fighter with some curiosity. He came over, bravely enough, after the fifth or sixth drink, opened the door, and marched in with the tread of a grenadier.
An hour earlier, or little more, she had faced him as bravely as any man, but she could not face him now, and she dared not open her eyes. "Madam, are you ill, or in trouble?" asked a young voice that was soft and deep. She opened her eyes with a sharp cry that was not of fear, and she threw back her hood with one hand as the looked.
What his next move may be, we are unable to say; but this we know, it will be in the right direction and likely to succeed. He had no doubt been spared on the numerous battle-fields on which he fought so bravely, for some wise purpose: and this purpose, we feel, is in connection with the freedom of Ireland.
Fred bent over him for his voice was weak. Yet the Indian struggled bravely to finish his speech. "He -scout -kill me. Pequots come soon. Flee." These were his last words. Exhausted by the terrific loss of blood, his heart failed, and he died peacefully without even a trace of agony. Agnes wept bitterly, as she pressed the guide's hand.
The morning after his arrival at the ranch she had bravely told her brother the whole circumstances of the preceding week, magnanimously taking upon herself all the blame in which truth compels us to say her brother entirely agreed and thereafter had ridden out to the camp of the ditch repairers and patched up a truce with Douglass.
Your obedient servant, The boy went forth to real service, and to successive battles at Kingston, at Whitehall, and at Goldsborough; and in all this did his duty bravely and faithfully.
He received the fatal stroke not unprepared, and poured out his life and his blood together. While these things were doing in one part of the field, in another Turnus encountered the youthful Pallas. The contest between champions so unequally matched could not be doubtful. Pallas bore himself bravely, but fell by the lance of Turnus.
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