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Though the President talked of "repossessing" the stolen forts, arsenals, and custom-houses, yet close upon this declaration followed the disheartening intelligence that the Cabinet were discussing the propriety of evacuating not only Fort Sumter, which was of no strategic importance, but Fort Pickens, which was the key to the Gulf of Mexico, and to abandon which was almost to acknowledge the independence of the Rebel States.
Its generic characters are a long, flexible snout, forty-two teeth, cloven feet, furnished with four toes, and a tail, which is small, short, and twisted, while, in some varieties, this appendage is altogether wanting." But what on earth has all this to do with housekeeping? 'That's what I want to know. It is so disheartening to have to remember such things.
The splitting up of sovereignty does not especially interfere with the purposes of a conservative party, but to a party of social and industrial reform it offers a disheartening obstacle. A labor party, to be effective, would be obliged to capture all the diffused bits of sovereignty at the same time.
So well did the young soldier realize the terrible menace of this new danger, against which no defence could be made, that he dared not announce it to the troops for fear of disheartening them. So, deserting his post for a moment, he hastened to report it in person to Christie. Ere the latter had time to consider this peril, another equally grave and more imminent confronted him.
And, dear knows, he's a right to have it, for he's worked hard, and with scarcely a holiday, since we were married." "Well, well, Mary," said Mrs. Caldwell, in manifest surprise, "you beat me out! I can't understand it. Here you are, under circumstances that I should call of a most distressing and disheartening nature, almost as cheerful as if nothing had happened.
On account of these latter, he jocosely professed himself to be anxious lest the tops of some of the jars might work loose and altogether he was the most disheartening man they had ever met.
My affections were already pledged; promised, it is true, to one who gave nothing in return, and who, perhaps, even loved another. Ah, there was the rub; that one confounded suspicion, lurking in the rear, chilled my courage and wounded my spirit. If there be anything more disheartening to an Irishman, in his little affaires de coeur, than another, it is the sense of rivalry.
I shall lose all faith in goodness if I lose faith in you!" "I think," said Lady Caroline, in the rather disheartening pause which followed upon Wyvis' words disheartening to him, at least, and also to Janetta, who had counted much upon Margaret's innate nobility of soul! "I think that I may now be permitted to say a word to my daughter before she replies. What Mr.
Farmer Pammenter was talkative, and his honest chest-voice sounded pleasantly; but the matter of his discourse might have been more cheerful. Here, as elsewhere, the evil of the times was pressing upon men and disheartening them from labour.
Hence numerous detached, feeble, and unprogressive settlements, came into existence, where the new settlers had to struggle for years with the most disheartening difficulties. European settlers know but little of the value of situation.
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