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He stood at the desk, labouring in his execrable handwriting. Presently Mr. Jordan came strutting down from the glass office and stood behind him, to the boy's great discomfort. Suddenly a red and fat finger was thrust on the form he was filling in. "MR. J. A. Bates, Esquire!" exclaimed the cross voice just behind his ear. Paul looked at "Mr.
The coffee had been steadily growing more and more execrable for the space of three weeks, till at last it had ceased to be coffee altogether and had assumed the nature of mere discolored water so this person said. He said it was so weak that it was transparent an inch in depth around the edge of the cup.
Every member of the execrable Rennepont family will be crushed and that soon you will see " Then, pausing, Rodin threw himself back on the pillow, exclaiming: "Oh! I am choked with joy. My voice fails me." "But what is it?" asked the cardinal of Father d'Aigrigny.
In 1535, so savage were the persecutions, that Pope Paul III., with that gentleness which almost invariably has characterised the popes of Rome in dealing with heresy, wrote to Francis protesting against the horrible and execrable punishments inflicted on the Lutherans, and warned him that although he acted from good motives, yet he must remember that God the Creator, when in this world, used mercy rather than rigorous justice, and that it was a cruel death to burn a man alive; he therefore prayed and required the king to appease the fury and rigour of his justice and adopt a policy of mercy and pardon.
'Yes, yes, I've heard, said Colonel Halkett hastily. He would have liked to be informed of Dr. Shrapnel's particular offence: he mentioned the execrable letter. Mr. Romfrey complacently interjected: 'Drug-vomit! and after an interval: 'Gallows! 'That man has done Nevil Beauchamp a world of mischief, Romfrey. 'We'll hope for a cure, colonel. 'Did the man come across you? 'He did. Mr.
He persuaded the families stigmatized with the crime of sacrilege, and the epithet of "execrable," to submit to the forms of trial; they were impeached, judged, and condemned to exile; the bodies of those whom death had already summoned to a sterner tribunal were disinterred, and removed beyond the borders of Attica. Nevertheless, the superstitions of the people were unappeased.
Nevertheless, he made his French so execrable, that the very scullions grinned, in spite of their fear. "Look you," said William, "you are no common churl; you have fought too well for that. Let me see your arm." Hereward drew up his sleeve. "Potters do not carry sword-scars like those; neither are they tattooed like English thanes. Hold up thy head, man, and let us see thy throat."
I may find a home for a motherless child a home that will cost you nothing." She drew him into the street. "But can this be the child of of Matilda Darrell?" "Bella!" replied, in coaxing accents, that most execrable of lady- killers, "can I trust you? can you be my friend in spite of my having been such a very sad dog? But money what can one do without money in this world?
She wanted a Creole governor; she did not want Casa Calvo invited to leave the country; she wanted the provisions of the Treaty of Cession hurried up; "as soon as possible," that instrument said; she had waited long enough; she did not want "dat trile bi-ju'y" execrable trash! she wanted an unwatched import trade! she did not want a single additional Américain appointed to office; she wanted the slave trade.
I addressed that dignified functionary in execrable French, telling him that I was a French subject and wanted to be sent back to Europe. I bungled a great deal, and when my French failed I helped myself out with English. The Consul waited patiently till I had finished, stroking his beard the while, and looking at me in the most suspicious manner.
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