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When it was the Eighty-second Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Wazir Dandan continued to bespeak Zau al-Makan on this wise, "And quoth the maiden to thy father, 'Bishr Barefoot's sister once went to Ahmad bin Hanbal and said to him, 'O Imam of the Faith, we are a family that spin thread by night and work for our living by day; and oftentimes the cressets of the watch of Baghdad pass by and we on the roof spinning by their light.
Upon one occasion he could not resist the impulse of again going hunting, though in the eighty-second year of his age. Exacting from his friends the promise that should he die, his remains should be brought back and buried by the side of those of his wife, he took a boy with him and went to the mouth of the Kansas River, where he remained two weeks.
His method was simple and effective: "When I seed a German, I jes' tetched him off." In the afternoon of October 8 York had brought in his prisoners by 10 o'clock in the morning in the seventeenth hour of that day, the Eighty-Second Division cut the Decauville Railroad and drove the Germans from it.
And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased to say her permitted say. When it was the Two Hundred and Eighty-second Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Isaac of Mosul continued, "And hardly had I reached my house ere the Caliph's runners came down upon me and carried me before him by main force and roughly enough.
She never retired without a candle and writing-materials at her bedside, and if during the night any new idea or bright thought arose, she would immediately strike a light and jot it down. She retained her mental vigor and personal attractions until her death in 1843, in the eighty-second year of her age. The following instances will serve to illustrate Mrs. Mayo's great nerve and self-possession.
What was wrong with him was the fact that this was the eighty-second suburban literary reception he had been compelled to attend since he had landed in the country on his lecturing tour, and he was sick to death of it. When his agent had first suggested the trip, he had signed on the dotted line without an instant's hesitation. Worked out in roubles, the fees offered had seemed just about right.
Her high mob cap sat on her head in an angle of aggression always, and her keen black eyes enforced all commands issuing from her stern old mouth. "Now, Amandy, train that shoot straight while you're about it," she continued. "It comes plumb from the roots, and I don't want to have to look at a wild-growing vine right here under my window for all my eighty-second and maybe last year."
Here Hatteras paused. "I ought to add," he continued, with a constrained look, and as though the words were unable to leave his lips "I must add that, in 1854, Kane, the American, commanding the brig Advance, went still higher, and that his lieutenant, Morton, going across the ice-fields, hoisted the United States standard on the other side of the eighty-second degree.
"'Good land! says I. 'I wanted Eighty-second. "'Why didn't you say so? says he, lookin' as if I'd stole his mother's spoons. "'I did, says I. "'You did? he snarls. 'You did not! If you did, wouldn't I have heard you?
Never did the ships of a squadron manoeuvre with more unity. At that moment night fell suddenly, and the reeds, scarcely raised by the breeze, lay peaceably under the sides of the Nautilus. The next day, 26th of January, we cut the equator at the eighty-second meridian and entered the northern hemisphere.
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