United States or Spain ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He entered the spacious living-room without word for those he beheld gathered there. He walked to a certain vacant place, and sat down upon the mud floor. It was at once plain that he had been expected. More, it was evident that he belonged by right to that gathering. Despite the display in the dimensions of Little Black Fox's house the interior revealed the old savage.
Wild life in our quiet valley will be deemed of unusual interest when I say that less than six hours before writing these lines I visited a badger's "set" a deep underground hollow with several main passages and upper galleries, where, as I have good reason to believe, a fox also dwells an otter's "holt" beneath gnarled alder-roots fringing the river-bank, and another fox's "earth," all on the outskirts of a wooded belt not more than a mile from my home, and all showing signs of having long been inhabited.
Fox's proceedings, was the best supported of any of them, except his amendment to the address. The Duke of Portland had directly engaged to support the war; here was a motion as directly made to force the crown to put an end to it before a blow had been struck.
Included in this volume is "Hell fer-Sartain" and other stories, some of Mr. Fox's most entertaining Cumberland valley narratives. Ask for complete free list of G. & D. Popular Copyrighted Fiction GROSSET & DUNLAP, 526 WEST 26th ST., NEW YORK The Reverend John Hodder is called to a fashionable church in a middle-western city.
Here were seen frock-coats, flashily set off by three rows of hussar-jacket buttons, and warmly ornamented with a little fur collar of fox's skin. Great-coats, formerly of bottle-green, rendered by time invisible, edged with a black cord, and brightened by a lining of plaid, blue and yellow, which had a most laughable effect.
He had married for his second wife the Duchess of Hamilton, nee Gunning, the famous beauty. Ogilvy. The correspondence of 1775 begins with the frequent story of Charles Fox's debts.
Fox's journey to Paris; but as it refers to Moreau, I believe that the transposition will be pardoned more easily than the omission. During the summer 1801 the First Consul took a fancy to give a grand military dinner at a restaurateur's.
"See," he said, "this is the Golden Maiden who has never seen the sun! She is the most beautiful maiden in the world and she now belongs to me!" The courtiers looked at her and admired her, but one of them a little keener than the others said: "Yes, she's very beautiful and all that but look at her eyes. They don't look like maiden's eyes but like fox's eyes!"
Fox's bill from providing funds for it, as this ministry have wickedly done for this, and for ten times worse transactions, out of the public estate, that an express clause immediately preceded, positively forbidding any British subject from receiving assignments upon any part of the territorial revenue, on any pretence whatsoever. You recollect, Mr.
America was a long way from England in those days. I regretted that I had not arrived in London in time to witness Lord Chatham's dramatic return to politics in January, when he had completed the work of Junius, and broken up the Grafton ministry. But I told them of the debate I had heard in St. Stephen's, and made them laugh over Mr. Fox's rescue of the King's friends, and the hustling of Mr.
Word Of The Day