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But the Kushans, or Yueh Chis, during the various stages of their slow migration down into Northern India, came into long and close contact with the Indo-Bactrian and Indo-Parthian kingdoms that sprang up after Alexander. The populations were never Hellenised, but their rulers were to some extent the heirs, albeit hybrid heirs, to Greek civilisation.
They are not what I wish, but I am commanded to honor them." "By whom, fair Hulda?" "By God. "Dónde está! What slave that we know was so God-read?" "Poor drunken Dave. He was a good man before he knew us. He told me all the Commandments for a drink of brandy, and I wrote them down and afterwards I found them in a book." "Chis! chito! how graceful is your mind, Hulda!
She stole a startled look at him out of her listening eyes, as if this might be unpleasant talk, but he parried it with a compliment. "Chis! Dios! What a family of beauties you were! Betty, with her hoyden air, and Jane, with her wealth of charms, and Patty, with her bold, rich eyes and conquering will. We sailed into the Nanticoke by mistake for the Manokin.
"The above reward will be paid by me to any person or persons and they will be exempted from detention who will deliver to me the body of the above-named miscreant, that he may be brought to trial in Pennsylvania. "JOSEPH WATSON, Mayor of Philadelphia." "Chis! he!" Van Dorn sighed; "the end must soon be near. Now, young people, come!"
But, with all your handsome ways, I would never love you, while the poor boy who is riding with us I loved as soon as he came." "Chis! chito! You can shrink from me and not from a Cannon, too? Why, girl, you have put him in my power." "I have been in your power for a long time, Captain Van Dorn, and you have looked at me with bold and evil eyes many a time, but never came nearer.
There seemed a something out of the common in the kind of attention the inmates were paying, but Van Dorn's eyes were absorbed in the sight of several drooping and yet almost startled dove-eyed quadroon maids, and he only noticed that the spy, Ransom, could not be seen. "Sorden," Van Dorn said, slipping down, "can Ransom have betrayed us? Chis! they all look as if a death-warrant was being read."
Cannon turned on Hulda with a ferocious expression and snatched the spectacles from her hand. "Whar did the devil git it?" Patty Cannon asked. "Ah! who knows?" the Captain lisped with pale nonchalance, giving one of those strong, piercing looks he sometimes afforded, right into the hostess's eyes. "It might be a coincidence: chis! chito! A shilling of a certain year is no rare thing.
Her skirt was of red, heavily embroidered in blue, and her waist, with short sleeves, was of sheer white cloth, with an embroidered bolero. Her hair she wore in the ancient fashion, in two braids on either side of her face. She could well afford to, the chis muttered among themselves. Any girl with hair like that
But, you chil'en, put on yer bunnits, an' run an' play in de yard tell I fixes dis chis' uv cloes; an' you little niggers, go wid 'em, an' tuck cyar uv 'em; an' ef dem chil'en git hut, yer'll be sorry fur it, mun; so yer'd better keep em off'n seesaws an' all sich ez dat."
Carteret, whose own excitement had increased with the length of this preamble. "Has anything happened to Aunt Polly?" "Somebody done broke in de house las' night, Mis' 'Livy, an' kill' Mis' Polly, an' lef' her layin' dead on de flo', in her own blood, wid her cedar chis' broke' open, an' eve'thing scattered roun' de flo'! O my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd, my Lawd!" Mrs.
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