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His rivals in renown among his contemporaries Keppel, Barrington, and Rodney had gone to their rest. Jervis, Duncan, Nelson, Collingwood, and their compeers, had yet to show what was in them as general officers.
The council-fire alone gave light, flashing upon the slender figure and animated face of this chief, who, although of slighter physique and lower stature than his compeers, wielded by reason of his more intellectual qualities so potent an influence among them. The oratorical gifts of Atta-Kulla-Kulla had signally impressed Europeans of culture and experience.
A few years afterward, in 1289, he once more made use of his favorite element, and laid in ashes the market-place of Strasburg all around the minster. More fortunate than its great compeers, St. Paul's of London, and St. Peter's of Hamburg, it miraculously experienced but trifling damage. Well, the great Erwin died at last, when he had built the tower as high as the roof-ridge of the nave.
It was the sort of generalized, picturesque "fluff-stuff" matter which Banneker could handle better than his compeers by sheer imaginative grasp and deftness of presentation. Being now a writer on space, paid at the rate of eight dollars a column of from thirteen to nineteen hundred words, he found the assignment profitable and the test of skill quite to his taste.
Count Ossoli and his noble wife tear themselves away from the pleasures of this delightful state of existence and devote their sacred energies to the enfranchisement of Italy. No Roman patriot, neither Garibaldi nor any of his compeers, equals them in their efforts for the freedom of that sunny land. Madame Ossoli is sanguine of success.
From the schoolroom he entered that of the court a chance offered a position gained the law his theme, he at once not only equaled, but soared even beyond the aim of the most favored of his compeers. The era was one of extravagance. The virgin soil of Mississippi was pouring into the laps of her generous sons untold abundance.
After blazing nearly ten years in the fashionable world, and hiding, like many of her compeers, an aching heart with a gay demeanour after declining repeated offers of the most respectable kind for a second matrimonial engagement, Lady Staunton betrayed the inward wound by retiring to the Continent, and taking up her abode in the convent where she had received her education.
From his attitude it was obvious that he had been the salvation of the countries named, and had now come to Russia to do the same for her. He spoke with the throaty accent of the Pole. It was quite evident that his speech was a written one probably a printed harangue issued to him and his compeers for circulation throughout the country.
Besides a certain disqualifying pride of heart, I know nothing of your connections in life, and have no access to where your real character is to be found the company of your compeers: and more, I am afraid that even the most refined adulation is by no means the road to your good opinion.
But I fancy his little heart must have been going at a fine rate; for he kept trotting at a respectful distance in front, and looking back at us with scared eyes. Not otherwise may the children of the young world have guided Jove or one of his Olympian compeers on an adventure. A miry lane led us up from Quartes with its church and bickering windmill.
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