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That the rebel sympathizers in California were plotting, as soon as the War began, to take the Presidio at the entrance to the Golden Gate, together with the forts on Alcatraz Island, the Custom House, the Mint, the Post Office, and all United States property, and then having made the formation of their Republic certain, invade the Mexican State of Sonora and annex it to the new commonwealth, has never been gainsaid.
But wass you ever with them when they could not get a dram because they had no money to pay for it?" Donald's test of impecuniosity could not be gainsaid. Lavender laughed, and bade him get back into the other boat. "'Deed I will not," said Donald sturdily. Lavender stared at him. "Oh no: you wass doing quite enough the day already, or you would not hef tumbled into the boat whatever.
Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances it has been declared that the interval of time between the two assaults could not have exceeded very many days. Hence, by inference, it has been believed by some whalemen, that the Nor' West Passage, so long a problem to man, was never a problem to the whale.
"By George," Parker declared, apparently puzzled, "one gathers the impression that you relish parting with your patrimony when you actually speed the date of departure." Mrs. Parker took Don Mike by the lapel of his coat. "You have a secret," she charged. He shook his head. "You have," Kay challenged. "The intuition of two women cannot be gainsaid."
All that has been done has been with an eye principally to this immediate result, and all the experiments given in this book are to be considered only as approximations to exact truth. All were made with a view, not to some remote future, but to an arrival within the compass of a few years at some result in actual flight that could not be gainsaid or mistaken.
"Silence! silence! silence!" cried Galen Albret, in a crescendo outburst. "Silence! I will not be gainsaid! You have made your choice! You are no longer a daughter of mine!" "Father!" cried Virginia, faintly, her lips going pale. "Don't speak to me! Don't look at me! Get out of here! Get out of the place! I won't have you here another day another hour! By "
They were alone by themselves; whatsoever they did, nobody gainsaid it; for they had quite shut out and barred our side from all manner of assemblies: and there they sat six years, feeding folks with a marvellous expectation of their doings.
"I went to ask Marion Fay to be my wife." "You did?" "Yes; I did. Why should I not? It seems the fashion for us all now to marry just those we fancy best." "And why not? Have I gainsaid you? If this Quaker's daughter be good and honest, and fair to look at " "That she is fair to look at I can say certainly. That she is good I believe thoroughly.
These facts have repeatedly been proved by volunteer investigators and are not to be gainsaid. I repeat that there has been too much of this. If the craze for smashing all our romantic fixtures persists, after a while we shall have no glorious traditions left with which to fire the youthful heart at high-school commencements.
McDowell, 'that the cast in the clay would be as perfect as one I found 51 years ago, a fragment of which I presented to Colonel Jenkes, with the impression of a part of the arm on one side and on the other of the fingers, that had pressed down the soft clay upon the body interred beneath. The mound-builders of the Ohio Valley, as has been shown, often placed a layer of clay over the dead, but not in immediate contact, upon which they builded fires; and the evidence that cremation was often resorted to in their disposition are too abundant to be gainsaid."
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