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Updated: June 19, 2025
One finger's breadth closer and I would have had a sick beast on my hands but he proved a blundering pig with his weapon and only made that scratch after all. "However, it is your fault, Jimgrim! You have made us to be laughed at by that father of dunghills! His beast was the faster, and he got away, and vanished in the shadows."
"That's the Cossars!" The eyes of the released prisoner followed the finger's direction and saw "My Gawd!" he cried, for the first time really overcome with amazement. The paper dropped into final forgottenness between his feet.
At last Marshal Bessieres, having been told of this terrible commotion, came to accuse himself. The Emperor was appeased, the usher restored to favor, and everything forgotten; though each one was more careful than ever that nothing should be disturbed, and that the Emperor should find at his finger's end whatever papers he needed.
A captain, being known to be in the employment of Don John, was arrested on his way to Breda. Carefully sewed up in his waistband was found a letter, of a finger's breadth, written in cipher, and sealed with the Governor-General's seal. Colonel Frondsberger, commanding in Breda, was in this missive earnestly solicited to hold out two months longer, within which time a certain relief was promised.
Then they flung beautiful wreaths over his stately head and mighty shoulders, so that the lion's skin was almost entirely covered with roses. They took possession of his ponderous club, and so entwined it about with the brightest, softest, and most fragrant blossoms, that not a finger's breadth of its oaken substance could be seen. It looked all like a huge bunch of flowers.
And so I did, with the gratifying result that when the sun's lower rim had reached to within a finger's breadth of the western horizon the Mercury slid out past the southern edge of the reef and made her first curtsy as she once more dipped to the swell of the open ocean, having triumphantly negotiated and overcome every one of the difficulties of that endless rock-bound channel.
For his benefit and that of Beatrice, he not only describes the costumes of the royal pair the king's gorgeous mantle of Lyons velvet, lined with yellow satin, and the queen's gold brocade robe and cape of lion skin lined with crimson but gives a minute account of Anne of Brittany's coiffure, a black velvet cap with a gold fringe hanging about a finger's length over her forehead, and a hood studded with big diamonds drawn over her head and ears.
My trees and bushes obey only me and the eternal laws implanted in their nature, and which I know. Should they swerve from them even a finger's breadth they would no longer be themselves. It is pleasant to reign over such subjects, and I would rather be a despot over vegetable organisms than a constitutional king and executor of the will of the 'images of God, as men call the sovereign people."
As for Poland, Kamschatka, Mexico, Madagascar, or any other place as to which knowledge would be useful, I have every inch of the way at my finger's end. But a propos of C , it is the town in which my late uncle made his fortune." "Ah, so it is. I recollect you were to have stood for C , but gave it up to Staunch; very handsome in you. Have you any interest there still?"
No later now than the last ball at the Castle that was before I left Dublin, Miss Nugent the apartments, owing to the popularity of my lady-lieutenant, was so throng so throng that I remember very well, in the doorway, a lady and a very genteel woman she was too, though a stranger to me saying to me, "Sir, your finger's in my ear."
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