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It shows not only that the successes far outnumber the failures, but that the latter are to some extent preventable." I have it on the best authority that the Government hopes to better this in the forth-coming harvest. That shows what our farmers can do with their backs to the wall.
Provisions began to be scarce in Gebal, and the governor writes to Egypt for corn. Rib-Hadad now threatened the Pharaoh with deserting to his enemies if succour was not forth-coming immediately, and at the same time he appealed to Amon-apt and Khayapa, the Egyptian commissioners who had been sent to inquire into the condition of affairs in Canaan.
Not only must they drive toward the sun, but also they must keep reserve power to blast free again. If only they had a pair of nuclear charges! He called his Planeteers together and outlined the problem. Perhaps one of them would have an idea. But no useful suggestions were forth-coming until Dominico spoke up. "Sir, why don't we make two bombs from one?" "I wish we could," Rip said.
We had strayed away into a dry, volcanic district of the mountains, where all the snow-rivers run out quite early; and of natural springs there was none forth-coming. The clouds were very low, and flying almost in our faces, like vultures sweeping down on us. To me they seemed to shriek over our heads at the others rushing after them.
It was charitably supposed by those who overheard her performance, that she was practising for farmyard imitations at the forth-coming village entertainment. It was her friend and neighbour, Aurora Burret, who brought her news of the day's sport. "Pity you weren't out; we had quite a good day. We found at once, in the pool just below your garden." "Did you kill?" asked Amanda. "Rather.
There is no trace on this side of any sense of patriotism; they hated the crusade because it destroyed the comforts of their happy existence. But the South of France had never as a whole acquired any real sense of nationalism: there was consequently no attempt at general or organised resistance and no leader to inspire such attempts was forth-coming.
When told to take him out his glass of wine, and when conscious that no one followed her, she felt herself to have been guilty of some great sin, and was almost tempted to escape. She had asked her sister for help; and this was the help that was forth-coming help so palpable, so manifest, as to be almost indelicate!
I hope you kin fin' me a ole crêpe veil, please, ma'am." Unfortunately for the full blossoming of this mourning flower of Afro-American civilization, as it is sometimes seen to bloom along the by-ways of plantation life, there was not a second-hand veil of crêpe forth-coming on this occasion.
Now dancing women were no more to the great man than a troupe of performing collies, but his artistic sense demanded the best, and when it was not forth-coming he felt the same annoyance as you or I would feel if arrayed in purple and fine linen we adorned a box at the opera with our presence, covered with as many diamonds upon it as possible, to find a street singer deputising for a Melba or Caruso.
He drew it back, having satisfied himself that they were actually forth-coming, and then recovered himself so far as to ask Pray, sir, are you acquainted with Captain St. Ives? I am, sir, answered I I likewise know Mr. Henley. You do, sir? said the astonished Mac Fane. I do, sir. I am intimate with Sir Arthur St.
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