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And the ammunition of the Americans disappeared even more quickly than their men, so that when at ten o'clock two Japanese regiments undertook to capture the fort by storm, the last defender fell with practically the last cartridge. Then the Rising Sun of Dai Nippon was substituted on the flagstaff of Winfield Scott for the Stars and Stripes.
The nomadic were the Dai, the Mardi, the Dropici, and the Sagartii; the agricultural were the Panthilaei, the Derusisei, and the Germanii, or Carmanians.
Columbus, who was familiar with the descriptions of Marco Polo, steered his caravels westward with the idea of finding Xipangu, with its abundance of gold and precious gems; but the Genoese did not and could not know the real state of affairs existing in Dai Nippon at this time. Let us glance at this. The whole country was split up into a thousand warring fragments.
Of course for myself I am glad that I am to see you and Dai. At least, I hope I am. God alone knows when we will get out of here. I am sick of it. Next time I go to war both armies must fight for two months before I will believe they mean it, and BEFORE I WILL BUDGE. It is true I am getting good money, but also there is absolutely NOTHING to write about.
In its formal organization the Ten-dai sect is of Chinese origin. It is named after Tien Tai, a mountain in China about fifty miles south of Ningpo, on which the book which forms the basis of its tenets was composed by Chi-sha, now canonized as a Dai Shi or Great teacher.
"I am seeking a bride for my son," was his reply. Dai Setzen then said that he recently had a dream, during which a white falcon had alighted on his hand. "This," he said, "Bordshig, was your token. From ancient days our daughters have been wedded to the Bordshigs, and I now have a daughter named Burte who is nine years old. I will give her to thy son."
The month has shown nothing." "Shut your head, or I'll change my think altogether." The next week Evan called at the dairy shop again. "How was the people?" he cried on the threshold. Mrs. Jenkins opened the window which was at the back of her, and called out: "The boy from Wales is here, Dai." Stooping as he moved through the way of the door, Dai greeted Evan civilly: "How was you this day?"
For my own part, I confess I am a little sceptical with regard to this prediction, and I can only use a favourite expression of the Russian peasants dai Bog! God grant it may be so! It is but fair to state that in one celebrated instance neither engineers nor railway contractors were directly to blame. From St.
His prayer was respected: at the end of the second week he gave Dai two pounds more than he had given him the week before. "Brisk is trade," said Dai. "I took into stock flour, tea, and four tins of job biscuits," replied Evan. "Am I not your servant?" "Well done, good and faithful servant."
Take you the sum and sign you the paper bach." Having acted accordingly, Dai cast his gaze on the shelves and on the floor, and he walked about judging aloud the value of what he saw: "Tea, three-pound-ten; biscuits, four-six; flour, four-five; firewood, five shillings; matches, one-ten; soap, one pound. Bring you these to Petersham. Put you them with the bed and the dishes I kindly lent you."
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