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Now they came to a place where the stream, by which the road ran, had been dammed for a mill and had widened into a beautiful pond. "There now!" cried Mr. Buller. "That's what I like. William, you seem to have everything! This is really a very pretty sheet of water, and the reflections of the trees over there make a charming picture; you can't get that at the seaside, you know." Mr.
The lawyer continued to stand. "I've come to tell you that I'm a dammed fool, Mr. Farnum," the boss grinned. James bowed slightly. He did not know what was coming, but he had no intention of committing himself to anything as yet. "In ever lettin' youse get away from me. I mistook yez for a kid glove."
So firmly do the Pimas rely on this prophecy that they will not cross Superstition Mountains, for there sits Cherwit Make awaiting the culmination of their wickedness to let loose on the earth a mighty sea that lies dammed behind the range. Twenty miles from the capital of Arizona stands Mount Superstition the scene of many traditions, the object of many fears.
He threw up a ridge between Fort Cumberland and Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, that he might cross, dry shod, the lake made by the beavers when they dammed the strait at Blomidon, but he afterward killed the beavers, and breaking down their dam he let the lake flow into the sea, and went southward on a hunting tour.
"I was a bit put out, I think," answered the other. They dropped down the hill into the Paddock Close, graying faintly in the dusk. Boy's high spirits were pouring back on her in merry little rivulets, all the readier to brim their banks for having been dammed so long. "Come and see Four-Pound-the-Second," she cried, and led away along the hillside at a trot.
It is not substantial; it is not palpable. It may not readily be translated into terms of money, or power, or vital force. But it crushes all these things before it. When this public opinion rises sure and firm and strong, no material force on this earth can stop it. For a time it may be dammed and checked.
A bit of a brook ran across it, which had been caught in a frolic one day, as it went singing away to the meadows, and dammed up and paved down into a tiny pond.
She did not feel herself younger, but it seemed to her as if a fountain of tears that had been obstructed and dammed had burst open again and begun to flow. There was great happiness and relief in crying, and these tears gave her a feeling of richness; it was as if she had become more precious, and everything had become more precious to her in short it was a feeling of youth after all.
"But reinforcements were at hand. The rain fell in torrents; the beavers had dammed all the rivers and there was a great flood. The besieged all retreated into the innermost lodge, but the water poured in through the burrows made by the badgers and gophers, and rose until Stone Boy's mother and his ten uncles were all drowned.
He's got it in for me, for not buying his claim when I took the Silver Treasure from you; and more'n that, he's afraid of me, because if I ever get out " "Oh, don't be a dammed fool all the rest of your life," burst out Bunker Hill impatiently. "If you'd quiet down a little and quit fighting your head, maybe your friends would be able to help you.
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