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Are there any unbelievers? Yes, to be sure; but not so many as you might think. There are unbelievers in the best, of families, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Hopi, but the surprising thing is that there are so many believers, at least among the Hopi. The Snake Dance, so-called, is the culmination of an eight-days' ceremonial, an elaborate prayer for rain and for crops.
She had brought, for an eight-days' stay, five dresses and six blouses. "Oh, would you mind," she said to Annie, "washing me these two blouses, and these things?" And Annie stood washing when William and Lily went out the next morning. Mrs. Morel was furious. And sometimes the young man, catching a glimpse of his sweetheart's attitude towards his sister, hated her.
I expect the police have instructions to detain this boat, and most of the ports must have been notified." "How long can we run?" "We've got enough gas and grub to reach Dacca," he said. "That's roughly an eight-days' journey." "On the African coast?" He nodded, although she could not see him. "Where could we get a ship to take us to South America?" she asked, turning round.
At the same time it came most opportunely to our knowledge that the Tyrol was rich in baths primitive establishments most of them, but dotted over mountain and valley, so that each village had half a dozen to choose from, where every peasant, be he ever so poor, could at least dip and soak for an eight-days' sommerfrisch.
"I don't know," he would say doubtfully, rubbing his eight-days' growth of beard; "I'm seeing a lot of France, but this coming-down business ain't what it's cracked up to be. I can swing in on the rods of a box car with the train going hell bent for election, but I guess I'm too old to learn to fly." The War Office came to this opinion after Millard had smashed three machines in three tries.
It tells this book compiled largely from correspondence of persons well known to you and me of the first "eight-days' crawl" that conveyed the chaffing, chafing command up through Mississippi, across East Tennessee into southeast Virginia and so on through Lynchburg to lovely Richmond; tells how never a house was passed in town or country but handkerchiefs, neckerchiefs, snatched-off sunbonnets, and Confederate flags wafted them on.
The stumpy mast of the Jungle Queen had already gone overboard he had sawn it off with great labour the day after they had left Cap Martin. She watched him with a speculative eye as he worked, and thought he had never looked quite so unattractive as he did with an eight-days' growth of beard, his shirt stained with paint and petrol.
The great altar was rebuilt; new sacred vessels provided; and an eight-days' dedication festival begun on the very day when, three years before, the altar of Jehovah had been desecrated by a heathen sacrifice.
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