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Updated: June 20, 2025
In 1838 Emerson delivered an address in the Divinity School of Harvard, which produced a gusty shower of articles, sermons, and pamphlets, and raised him without will or further act of his to the high place of the heresiarch. With admirable singleness of mind, he held modestly aloof. 'There is no scholar, he wrote to a friend, 'less willing or less able to be a polemic.
"At last, then," he exclaimed, "at last, then, I have these English in my grasp." The tempest abated in the morning but the weather all day long was gusty, and the sky lowering. It was about noon that the French opened their cannonade, and Jerome Buonaparte, under cover of its fire, charged impetuously on Hougomont.
A gusty wind, which had sprung up suddenly, chased the carriage all the way, while the rain, which came down in sheets, hissing as it struck the ground, thundered on the hood drawn over their heads, but left their vision clear to gaze in wondering awe at the marvels which surrounded them. Dr.
The girl had preceded her. The Merle twin lingered back of them, shocked, austere, deprecating, and yet somehow bland withal, as if these little affairs were not without their compensating features. The bowed Wilbur twin was startled by a gusty torrent of laughter. With torturing effort, he raised his eyes to a couple of elderly male Whipples.
The astonished and disgusted keeper stared into the thicket; the dog lay quivering, impatient for signal. Sylvia's heart, which had seemed to stop with her voice, silenced in the gusty thunder of heavy wings, began beating too fast.
"I did nothing to discourage the mistake, and I presume Gusty Durgin still believes I pose before the camera." "Gusty has aspirations that way herself," chuckled Bane. "She is a character." "I wonder what kind of screen actress I would make?" He smiled down at her rather grimly. "The kind the directors call the appealing type, I fancy, Miss Grayling.
"Not that I know of," answered Edward "but if these objects here had only tongues, if every sword, and belt, and spear-head, and golden bodkin, and other trinket could speak, no doubt we should hear stirring stories of gallant warriors and their ladye-loves." "Aye, that would be something to hear!" exclaimed Gusty.
He handed me a sum of money, packed into a basket all the eatables he could find and two bottles of wine, and lit a lantern, and we set off through the gusty night, past the deserted houses, past Beaumanoir all dark and dead, and so down into Havre Gosselin, where the waves were roaring white.
But when the old Cook and myself resolved on this, we found that we had no instrument with which it would be possible to do it. It was now clear that we had only God to trust in. The front windows were giving way with successive crashes, and the floor shook as you may have seen a carpet on a gusty day in London.
It is said that it was from Bond's description of this voyage that the Poet Whittier obtained the information for the well-known poem. Out and in the river is winding The banks of its long red chain, Through belts of dusky pine land And gusty leagues of plain. Only at times a smoky wreath With the drifting cloud-rack joins The smoke of the hunting lodges Of the wild Assiniboines.
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