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Four generations of you in one house to be pleased and proud of, and I pray to God he'll let me live to see the fifth generation of the MacDermotts born here, too. I'm a great woman for clinging to my home, and I love to think of the generations coming one after the other in the same house that the family's always lived in.
"The system won't accept destruction on any othah tomes," said Miss Woodburn, demurely. At the reception, where two men in livery stood aside to let him pass up the outside steps of the house, and two more helped him off with his overcoat indoors, and a fifth miscalled his name into the drawing-room, the Syracuse stone-cutter's son met the niece of Mrs.
"It looks splendid outside," said John, in his serious voice. The Caterpillar, detecting no cheek, answered gravely "Some of us had a wet night of it, last night." "Wet?" exclaimed the innocent Fluff. "Why, all the stars were shining." "Your brothers at Eton know what a 'wet night' means," said the Caterpillar, "I was talking with one of the Fifth, when a fellow came in with a flask.
Thus, of a hundred thousand persons born in this country, it has been ascertained that a fourth of them die before they have reached their fifth year; and one-half before they have reached their fiftieth year. One thousand one hundred will reach their ninetieth year. Sixteen will live to a hundred.
The two divine chiefs stand side by side in the earliest literature almost as coequal powers; but it is explained that the wicked one is to be destroyed with all his followers. The goddess Anahita, first mentioned in an inscription of Artaxerxes II, and described only in the late Fifth Yasht, appears to have been originally a deity of water.
Wherefore, the first kind is that concerning the written document and the intention of it; the second arises from the laws which are contrary to one another, the third is ambiguous, the fourth is argumentative, the fifth we call definitive. But reason applies when the whole of the inquiry does not turn on the writing, but on some arguing concerning the writing.
The Indians having recently committed a great many depredations on the Black Hills road, the Fifth Cavalry was sent out to scout the country between the Indian agencies and the hills. The command operated on the South Fork of the Cheyenne and at the foot of the Black Hills for about two weeks, having several small engagements with roving bands of Indians during the time.
I entreat you, command this old man to translate those parts of the physician Sonnophre's journal, which allude to this story." Cambyses nodded his consent, and the old man began to read in a voice far louder than any one could have supposed possible from his infirm appearance "On the fifth day of the month Thoth, I was sent for by the king.
And you must roll up Fifth Avenue in your car, and I'll point and say 'That's my brother! 'Your brother? No! 'He is, really. 'You're joking. Why, that's the great Fillmore Nicholas. 'I know. But he really is my brother. And I was with him when he bought that coat." "Do leave off about the coat!" "'And it isn't only the coat, I shall say. 'It's what's underneath.
We were still as disillusioned with the country as we had been the first day, we felt as out of place on a homestead as a coyote sauntering up Fifth Avenue, we felt the tar-paper shack to be the most unhomelike contraption we had ever seen; but from the moment we began to make improvements, transforming the shack, it took on an interest for us out of all proportion to the changes we were able to make.
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