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None of them ever hesitated to call a spade a spade, and some of them denounced slavery and all its sympathizers with the vigor and picturesqueness of a Muggletonian or Fifth Monarchy man of Cromwell's time execrating his religious adversaries.
And then talk went on, stiffly, each of its contribuents execrating its stiffness, but seeing no way to relaxation. "Sort of weather that generally ends in a thunderstorm." "Does it? Well perhaps it does." "Don't you think it does?" "I thought it felt very like thunder an hour ago." "Rather more than an hour ago, wasn't it?" "Just after lunch about two o'clock." "Dessay you're right.
"We, who have protected them so much!" she exclaimed. "False and ungrateful race!..." Her gestures and her words recalled to Ulysses' mind the image of the doctor, execrating the Italian country from a little window of the coach, the first day that they had talked together.
Instead of crying and execrating the liars, as Herennia fully expected her to do, Cornelia merely handed back the tablets, and said with cold dignity, "I think some very unfortunate mistake has been made. Lucius Ahenobarbus is no friend of mine. Will you be so kind as to leave me with my maids?" Herennia was overborne by the calm, commanding attitude of the rival she had meant to annoy.
'You wouldn't have found me talking to you here if I had. 'And here I'm left to defend an empty castle, am I? 'Don't drink or you'll have your paytron on you. He's good use there. 'I ask it, can I see my lady? 'Drunk nor sober you won't. Serve a paytron, be a leper, you'll find, with all honest folk. Ines shook out an execrating leg at the foul word. 'Leper, you say? You say that?
But if this theory is true, how about the shelves that fell at daybreak, and how about her escape from the house without detection? A little thought will explain all that. The man, horrified, no doubt, at the result of his imprudence, and execrating the crime to which it had led, left the house almost immediately.
By degrees, the execution of Robespierre and above an hundred of his partizans, convinced even the most timid; the murmurs of suppressed discontent began to be heard; and all thought they might now with safety relieve their fears and their sufferings, by execrating the memory of the departed tyrants.
At the moment when Napoleon, invading Russia, began his last stroke for universal empire, the United States entered the game as his virtual ally. This was something the Federalists could not forgive. They returned to their homes, execrating the war as waged in behalf of the arch-enemy of God and man, as the result of a pettifogging bit of trickery on the part of Napoleon.
Six o'clock struck. In another short hour and we begin, thought I, with a sinking heart, as I looked upon the littered stage crowded with hosts of fellows that had nothing to do there. Figaro himself never wished for ubiquity more than I did, as I hastened from place to place, entreating, cursing, begging, scolding, execrating, and imploring by turns.
He was now a deserter and an exile; and those who had lately placed their chief reliance on his support were compelled to join with their deadliest enemies in execrating his treason.
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