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I argued that the men had come home from the confederate army this was in 1864 either discharged for wounds or disability, or paroled prisoners, and they were anxious to go to work, but that they hadn't a dollar, and our army had skinned every horse and mule on their places, and the niggers had gone, so that a horse would be a God-send to them. But the chaplain wouldn't hear to it.
These two birds were, I may truly say, a God-send, and I beg to assure the reader they were uncommonly good. From this valley we had to cross the heavy sand ridges which had so fatigued our horses before, and I hardly expected we should find water nearer than the Fish Pond.
But she performed her task with her accustomed energy and thoroughness, and no doubt the mere sight of her was a God-send to those men who had for so long looked upon nothing but blood and death and horrors. Then came the sound of the German guns thirty kilometers from Paris. The Government decided to go to Bordeaux. Mlle.
H , the third mate, and two others, filling the bread locker in the steerage from the casks, when a bright gleam of sunshine broke out and shone down the companion-way and through the skylight, lighting up everything below, and sending a warm glow through the heart of every one. It was a sight we had not seen for weeks, an omen, a god-send.
"Give the corn to the natives. It is farinaceous at all events. And you can have nothing to say against the flour I have brought, and the peas, beans, tallow, butter, barley, salt, and salted meats in all to the value of twenty-four thousand Spanish dollars." The Chief-Manager's head nodded with the vigor and rapidity of a mechanical toy. "It is a God-send, a God-send.
Faith, I was at the end of my imagination, and after with great difficulty making them swallow ostriches for giraffes a god-send, indeed, Negoro! I no longer knew what to invent. Besides, I well saw that my young friend no longer accepted my explanations. Then we fell on elephants' prints. The hippopotami were added to the party.
Yet now that France and Germany have agreed, it is probable that this step is regretted, and that, since the two have acted in concert, the Moorish Court has been at its wits' ends; it would now regard as a God-send anything which might prevent the conference from being held, lest it should strengthen the accord among its enemies, and weaken its own position.
Cynthia went down to see afterward, and the poor woman's gratitude brought tears to her eyes. "They will be a perfect God-send this winter," she said. "I've been frettin' as to what we should do. I've never begged yet. Well, the Lord is good." Then there came another source of interest. Polly Upham was "keeping company."
But this wasn't the worst of it; for when he got fairly back to his work again, the wind had been blowing the leaves of his book about, and he plumped us into the middle of the marriage ceremony. I am no great lawyer, but there were those who said it was a god-send that half the young men in the parish weren't married to their own grandmothers!"
Surely to goodness something will happen to put an end to my long drawn out misery. No sleep last night. A "Goanna" that he killed and ate was a God-send. Now. 6. Disappointed! Made sure of truffles after rain. None. No grub. I get weaker and weaker. Can hardly crawl. Now. 11. Done up! Lay down and went to sleep. No sign from shore. The good Lord pity me in my weakness! Novr. 12.
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