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Sheppard, meanwhile, whose hands were at liberty, managed to possess himself, unperceived, of the spike of a halbert, which was lying, apart from the pole, upon a bench near him.
All our fortifications, the prettiest things ever done under the circumstances, executed under Bobby's own eye, were thrown down by what do you think? an earthquake! Perhaps we didn't swear Lord forgive us! Akbar had a shy at us immediately, but got a most immortal licking! "Is not this a most wonderful thing about Halbert?
I've got heaps to tell you, sister, about what I've seen. I went home, and only stayed ten minutes; when I heard you were here, I came right on." "I am glad to see you back, Mr. Halbert," said Major Buckley; "I hope you have had a pleasant journey. You have met Captain Desborough?" "Captain Desborough, how are you?" says Jim. "I am very glad to see you.
The autumn of the year was well advanced, when the Earl of Morton, one morning, rather unexpectedly, entered the antechamber of Murray, in which Halbert Glendinning was in waiting. "Call your master, Halbert," said the Earl; "I have news for him from Teviotdale; and for you too, Glendinning. News! news! my Lord of Murray!" he exclaimed at the door of the Earl's bedroom; "come forth instantly."
Having closed the door, and carefully locked it, absorbed in meditation on what would be the agonized transports of his master, when he should tell him these grievous tidings, Halbert proceeded in silence, till he and his companion in passing the well were startled by a groan. "Here is some one in extremity!" cried the soldier.
You must know, then, that when my ancestor, Ian nan Chaistel, wasted Northumberland, there was associated with him in the expedition a sort of Southland Chief, or captain of a band of Lowlanders, called Halbert Hall. In their return through the Cheviots they quarrelled about the division of the great booty they had acquired, and came from words to blows.
Herdström, who sells Aqua Vitæ over the Milliner's in the Bogbindersgade at Stockholm. 'Twas in the summer of 1747 that I put off my Warder's dress for good and all, the Rebellion being by this time quite Dead and crushed out; but before I laid down my halbert 'twas my duty to assist at the crowning consummation of that disastrous Tragedy.
It is certain as the sun is in heaven, that Halbert Glendinning supped at the house of my master the Baron of Avenel last night, and that he came thither in company with an old man, of whom more anon." "And where is he now?" "The devil only can answer that question," replied Christie, "for the devil has possessed the whole family, I think.
When my old friend and quondam law partner, General Halbert E. Paine, who was chairman of the Committee on Elections in the House, told him that, in a certain contested election case to be voted upon, both contestants were rascals, Stevens simply asked: "Well, which is our rascal?" He said this, not in jest, but with perfect seriousness.
"There come two travellers." Two dots appeared crawling over the plain, and making for the river. For a few minutes Alice could not be brought to see them, but when she did, she declared that it was Jim and Halbert. "You have good eyes, my love," said her father, "to see what does not exist. Jim's horse is black, and Halbert's roan, and those two men are both on grey horses."
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