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'Heavy loads! said Hood, shaking his head. 'So you carry chairs and a table into the Veld? 'Home comforts, growled his fellow-missionary. 'Why not be comfortable? And why, too, didn't you bring a wife back? Some one said. Hood smiled, and the missionary's wife smiled back at him. 'He's better as he is, dear, said she to her grunting husband. 'He's a foot-slogging free-lance.
Despite his new manner on the Treasury bench in the House of Commons Lloyd George had lost none of the freshness and suppleness of mind which had distinguished him as a free-lance, and as he proceeded to do unexpected things it became apparent he was going to be as vital a figure in office as he had been on the back benches.
We went down the stair, I helped her into the carriage, and stopped, thinking she would be accompanied by one of her women; but seeing nobody I got in myself. The door was shut, and we were off. I was overwhelmed with astonishment. A treasure like this in my keeping I could hardly think. I asked myself whether I was to remember that I was a free-lance of love, or whether honour bade me forget it.
Mallock seems very young for his business, but I suppose that the Holy Father knows what he is about." "The Holy Father, sir," I said, "has committed himself in no sort of way to me. I am scarcely more than a free-lance who has had his blessing." "Well, well; it is all the same thing," said James a little impatiently. "Free-lance or drilled soldier they fight for the same cause."
Gregory XI. declares war against Bernabo Visconti of Milan, and takes into his pay the English free-lance, Sir John Hawkwood. Peter d'Estaing, appointed Legate of Bologna, makes truce with Bernabo.
Among the hired warriors the free-lance spirit prevailed with all its demoralized and stolid indifference towards their own life and that of others. Infantry By the side of these mounted warriors the infantry fell into the background. In the main it essentially resembled the bands of Celts, with whom the Romans had fought in Italy and Spain.
Peridon traced mortal evil to that act. Dr. Schlesien had his German views, Colney Durance his ironic, Fenellan his fanciful and free-lance. And here was an optimist, there a pessimist; and the rank Radical, the rigid Conservative, were not wanting.
He read the disappointment in their faces. "We are hoping that for once Weather will be wrong." This brought a few grins and a snort or two from the pilots. The Old Man went on talking. "You are to fly formation as planned. This will be strictly a team job. There will be no free-lance hunting. Understand?" Everyone looked glum. O'Malley scowled. It was not his nature to like strict rules.
The corps buses kept constant communication between attacking battalions and the rear. A machine first reported the exploit of the immortal Tank that waddled down High Street, Flers, spitting bullets and inspiring sick fear. And there were many free-lance stunts, such as Lewis gun attacks on reserve troops or on trains.
Favourite parts, moreover, are those of the cook, who understands not only how to boast of unheard-of sauces, but also how to pilfer like a professional thief; the shameless -leno-, complacently confessing to the practice of every vice, of whom Ballio in the -Pseudolus- is a model specimen; the military braggadocio, in whom we trace a very distinct reflection of the free-lance habits that prevailed under Alexander's successors; the professional sharper or sycophant, the stingy money-changer, the solemnly silly physician, the priest, mariner, fisherman, and the like.
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