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And both forms of knowledge had more than once been of some slight use to him. Facing Milo and Claire, he signed to them not to speak. Then, making sure the house-man had gone upstairs, he walked up to Claire and whispered, pointing over his shoulder at the door which Simon Cameron was guarding: "Where does that door lead to?"
Eighty years had they been lying in the wine-bin of the Inn, guarding their treasure of Imperial Tokay. Now, their ward was ended and the supper was complete; though, in truth, it had been complete before. And, when we had eaten the supper and had drunk most of the Tokay, we freshened up the glasses with what remained.
Leslie, had I thought as you do some years since, I had saved myself from many a trouble. After all, Ambition is the best mistress to woo; for with her there is always the hope, and never the possession." "Ambition, Count," replied Randal, still guarding himself in dry sententiousness, "is the luxury of the rich, and the necessity of the poor."
Hence he puts his caution in a parenthesis, thus guarding his meaning in an extraordinary manner. He then shows what this baptism is, and calls it the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In fact, he states it to be the baptism of Christ, which is by the Spirit.
Tartars, Mongols, Little Russians, Chinamen, Japanese, French officers, British officers, peasants and fashionable women, schoolboys, officials, actors and artists and business men and priests and sailors and beggars and hawkers and, guarding them all, friendly, urbane, filled with a pleasant self-importance that seemed at that hour the simplest and easiest of attitudes, the Police.
Marie Exili, ever in dread of the perquisitions of Desgrais, kept very quiet in her secluded home on the St. Lawrence, guarding her secret with a life-long apprehension, and but occasionally and in the darkest ways practising her deadly skill.
Upon a sarcophagus of black marble is a reclining figure, modest and seemly, the hands folded upon the breast, two lambs guarding the feet, while two angels support the cushion upon which rests the lovely head of la belle des belles, whose face in life is said to have had the bloom of flowers in the springtime.
I look around for the sentry, not quite sure whether I am to be challenged or shot; but again I am permitted to approach unquestioned. I call out, "Who is there?" "Men of Colonel Carr's regiment." "What are you doing here?" "We are guarding some of our wagons which were left here. Our regiment has gone forward at a half-hour's notice to reinforce Zagonyi," said a sergeant, rising and saluting me.
Hundreds of giant arms were beating the air, as if guarding the town from invisible enemies. Greta was proud and pleased that her cousins were so impressed with the great numbers of towers and the myriads of gigantic whirling spokes. "My father says there is nothing grander than this in all Holland," she said. "There are four hundred of them, and more, but you can't see them all from here.
They’ve just come out of deceleration and they won’t have their space-legs yet." Santos reported. "They’re breaking up into groups of two. Three are guarding the snapper-boats. One is the man with the chattergun." "Are their belt lights on?" "Yes." "Then keep out of the beams. Don’t let them walk into you. Keep low, and keep moving. Stay over on the dark side."
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