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"Hidden Water," replied Hardy, promptly, "and I bet I can cut as many trees as you can." "I'll go you, for a fiver," exclaimed Creede, emulously. "Next time Rafael comes in tell him to bring me up some more grub and baled hay, and I'm fixed. And say, when you write to the boss you can tell her I've traded my gun for an axe!"
Half-a-dozen of busy hands, which were emulously employed in plundering the fallen knight, whose arms and accoutrements were of a magnificence befitting his quality, instantly forbore the occupation, and half the number of voices exculpated themselves, by laying the blame on the Skyeman, as they called Ranald MacEagh.
We have taken from The Railway Record, the amount of new railway schemes advertised in a single week, at the beginning of October. The number of the schemes is FORTY; and they comprehend the ephemera of England and Ireland only Scotland, which, during that period, was most emulously at work, seems, by some unaccountable accident, to have been overlooked.
They too, the matrons of whose kin, struck by Bacchus, trample in choirs down the pathless woods nor is Amata's name a little thing they too gather together from all sides and weary themselves with the battle-cry. Omens and oracles of gods go down before them, and all under malign influence clamour for awful war. Emulously they surround Latinus' royal house.
"We have all had some part in these marches and battles, and methinks other princes might share a little in the renown which Richard of England engrosses amongst minstrels and MINNE-SINGERS. Has no one of the joyeuse science here present a song in praise of the royal Archduke of Austria, our princely entertainer?" Three minstrels emulously stepped forward with voice and harp.
The capital which no one dares risk to-day in the Southern States, will flow into them emulously as soon as slavery shall be abolished; I say more: as soon as its progressive abolition shall be no longer doubtful in the sight of all.
"There really was an armed man in this spence," said Mary; "and because I was surprised to see him, I cried out to Halbert and Edward " "She has told it herself," said Halbert Glendinning, "or it had never been told by me." "Nor by me neither," said Edward, emulously.
The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays. The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their grains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen.
Emulously they keep their guard, these with javelins, those with stones, and wield fire and fit arrows on the string.
They will see that deviation is not always improvement; that whoever wants to be better than nature will infallibly be worse; that truth in taste is as obvious as in morals, and as certain as in mathematics. In other quarters, both the classic and the Gothic muse are emulously soaring, and I hail the restoration of genuine poetry and pure taste."
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