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I advised General Halleck to collect the whole of his men into one camp on the La Mine River, near Georgetown, to put them into brigades and divisions, so as to be ready to be handled, and I gave some preliminary orders looking to that end. But the newspapers kept harping on my insanity and paralyzed my efforts. In spite of myself, they tortured from me some words and acts of imprudence.
Caterham keeps harping on what may happen if it gets loose again. I say over and over again, it won't, and it can't. But there it is!" And he bounced about the room for a little while as if he meant to reopen the topic of the secret, and then thought better of it and went. The two scientific men looked at one another. For a space only their eyes spoke.
"Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.... Let the high praises of God be in their mouth." The symphony is heightened by the "voice of harpers, harping with their harps."
There were one or two oak-trees whose foliage still retained a deep, dusky red, which looked rich and warm; but most of the oaks had reached the last stage of autumnal decay, the dusky brown hue. Millions of their leaves strew the woods, and rustle underneath the foot; but enough remain upon the boughs to make a melancholy harping when the wind sweeps over them.
How is he, good Austin? Well? That's right; and my dear sister? Ah, that damnable Peck! Still harping on the 'Anti-Capitalist, eh? But I'll make it up to you all now. Gentlemen, charge your glasses, a bumper-toast." Mr. "I respond to the sentiment in a flowing cup. Glasses are not forthcoming." Uncle Jack.
The army was a profession, in which killing had become a disagreeable possibility rather than an eventful certainty. If one reads the old newspapers and periodicals of that time, which did so much to keep militarism alive, one finds very little about glory and adventure and a constant harping on the disagreeableness of invasion and subjugation. In one word, militarism was funk.
Ugly fellow, indeed;" repeated Springall, twitching up his trowsers "I wonder what she meant by ugly fellow!" "So do I," said the Skipper, with a sigh; for his mind was still 'harping on his daughter: "So do I, but women have strange fancies. Let me now ask you what news you have, for I cannot see how this concerns me."
Again did Frank and Will exchange that sudden glance and nod, showing that the little secret they shared in common must have some connection with the subject Bluff was even then harping upon. On the way home the talk of course reverted several times to Aaron Dennison and his strangely fenced-in property.
It cannot be answered at all by harping on the fact that this object, if discovered, must be discovered by somebody, and by somebody who has an interest in discovering it.
Even now the Romanists misuse it for "Papistical," the Dissenters occasionally use it to signify "Latitudinarian," and the members of the Church of England are either afraid to use it at all, or else are perpetually harping upon it, as though it were a mere party-word.
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