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But of a sudden, a wash of water told him that he could there remain no longer: the sea was rising rising fast; and before he could gain a few paces on his hands and knees, another wave, as if it chased him in its wrath, repeated the warning of his extreme danger, and he was obliged to rise on his feet and hasten to the high part of the sand-bank, where he had drawn up his boat and his provisions.
With fast beating hearts they dashed on and a few minutes later stood on the edge of the mastmarked abyss, gazing downward into it. As they did so a shout such a shout as had never disturbed the great silences of that region rent the air "The Viking ship at last. Hurray!"
I did not feel as I feel now when first I came to this parish. For, as I have said, I am now getting old very fast. True, I was thirty when I was made a vicar, an age at which a man might be expected to be beginning to grow wise; but even then I had much yet to learn.
There is the Fast Day Donation, made up of contributions gathered on the afternoon of the first Sunday of each month, at what is called "a fast meeting," for the support of the local poor; and this is supplemented by the Relief Society Donation, solicited by the members of the Ladies Relief Society, in a house-to-house canvass, from Mormons and Gentiles alike.
She's toiled and slaved for you like a plantation negro, while he " "He's comin'," interrupted Napoleon, without for a moment intermitting his potato-shoveling. "Walkin' fast," continued the sententious lad, swallowing immediately half a cup of milk. Dr. Lively came hurrying into the dining-room. "For pity's sake, I think it's about time," the wife began pettishly.
Like many peevish people, too, he seemed to have an intuitive perception as to what was most likely to teaze those whom he conversed with; and, on the present occasion, all Jenny's efforts to remove him from the garden served only to root him in it as fast as if he had been one of the shrubs.
'But from the beginning to to-day I would cut the throats of all the Sahibs in the land if I could. Hold me fast, Sahib, lest I get away and return to those who would follow me. I forgot them when I was in Burma, but now that I am in my own country again, I remember everything. 'Do you remember that you have given me your Honour not to make your tendance a hard matter? said the Subaltern.
The double-flowered varieties, for which we are much indebted to M. Victor Lemoine, of Nancy, are fast gaining favour with cultivators in this country, and rightly, too, for they include several very handsome, full flowered forms. The following are best known: S. vulgaris Alphonse Lavallee, with full double red flowers, changing to mauve.
Once I thought I'd found it, but it was only some open, flat, thorny ground. It was very dark then, the dark comes on so fast here.
Here's a guinea, and run away as fast as ever your legs can carry you." He gave me a bright piece of gold and waved me off, as though I were to run away that very moment. I submissively said that I would run away after school was over, but asked him where I should run to. "I'm sure I don't know," the Old Gentleman said somewhat peevishly. "That's not my business.
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