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They were sedentary and metropolitan people dwellers in towns not nomads; they had cattle and fowls, orchards and grain-fields, gardens for vegetables, corrals for breeding stock. They had many towns some even of two hundred houses, of which dwellings many were cellared, framed, and glazed.

Winter retires from the foe into his fortress, where a magazine Of sovereign juice is cellared in; Liquor that will the siege maintain Should Phoebus ne'er return again.

The medical corps have already ruined the interior of the house; the garden with its handsome box hedges nearly two centuries old is a wreck. She has given all the farm horses to the ambulances; all her linen to the medical director; all cattle, sheep, swine, poultry to the hospital authorities; all her cellared stores, wines, luxuries to the wounded.

Eighty thousand half-crowns! Be pleased to reflect upon these cellared piles of silver, and what they indicate of Cornish life in those days: and bear in mind that they were stacked in place a short ten years before Roger Stephen, a mile-and-a-half away, first let fly his bullets at the Sheriff, on the principle that an Englishman's house is his castle, and in firm conviction shared by all the countryside and in the bottom of his heart by Sir John himself that this particular castle was Roger Stephen's; not perhaps by law, but assuredly by right.

Hence, the way by which the Veda argues the existence of the palasa a mystic tree with the Hindus is founded on the following tradition: The demons had stolen the heavenly soma, or drink of the gods, and cellared it in some mythical rock or cloud.

Alexina, although she would have found it impossible, even if she had so desired, to relapse into the incognitance of the years preceding her mother's death, had nevertheless locked and sealed and cellared her ivory tower, those depths of her nature where, she suspected, her true ego dwelt.