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I suppose we are about halfway between the two now, so we can count it as three knots and a half." "That would make," Ryan said, after making the calculation, "eighty-four miles in twenty-four hours." "Bravo, Dicky! I doubted whether your mental powers were equal to so difficult a calculation.
Previous to the incursion of the Huns another Tartar tribe, the Alani the first of that race known to the Romans had ravaged Media and Armenia, A.D. 75, carrying off a vast number of prisoners and an enormous booty. They later settled themselves in the country between the Volga and the Tanais, at an equal distance from the Black Sea and the Caspian.
As the current of thoughts again flowed on, and the words of her husband presented themselves in even a more offensive light than when they were first uttered, indignant pride took the uppermost place in her mind. "He will not treat me as a wife and equal," she said, "and I will no longer be his slave."
It goes very deep. And I'm not sure . no, I'm not whether I'm equal to it." She glanced at Iglesias strangely through the clinging grey of the dusk. "Dear unknown," she said, "I give you my word I'm frightened I who've never been frightened at any man yet.
When assessed upon the person, it is called a poll-tax, or capitation tax, being a certain sum on every poll, or head. But as persons ought generally to contribute to the public expenses according to their ability, taxes are more just and equal when laid upon the property of the citizens. Few poll-taxes are levied in this country.
Modern art cannot, or does not, equal the chasing and carving of this splendid crosier, which is enriched with figures of saints and, apostles, and various Gothic devices, very minute, but all executed as faithfully as if the artist's salvation had depended upon every notch he made in the silver. . . . Leaving New College, Bennoch and I, under Mr.
"I I thought I said sharp, sir," remarked Malkiel, at length, with a great effort recovering himself. "Wasn't I sharp?" returned the Prophet. "Will you present me?" "Are you equal to it, my love?" inquired Malkiel, tenderly, to the contralto voice. The contralto voice nodded hysterically.
"Alas, yes! for when beauty, youth, and health are joined to an evil spirit of revolt and perversity to a character which certainly has not its equal upon earth it would be far better to be deprived of those dangerous advantages, which only become so many causes of perdition.
And in this way may they who are unequal best be friends, because they may thus be made equal.
The result of interference with growth is more injurious in the lower than in the upper limb, because, from the functional point of view, it is essential that the lower extremities should be approximately of equal length.
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