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'Ha, ha ha, there you go into heroics again, interrupted the pirate, in a tone of scornful irony, 'but I will soon find a way to bring you back to your senses. Now, listen, he continued, after a moment's pause, and in a tone of voice changed to stern severity, 'listen I say, to my words, and mark them well.
With a bad title and many pretenders, with an evil heritage of social disorder, he must have been sorely tempted to indulge in the heroics of Henry V. He followed a sounder business policy, and his reign is dull, because he gave peace and prosperity at home without fighting a battle abroad.
I'll take the gallows itself, if it comes, and say good quittance." "Ay," grunted Mr. Meredith, "go on. Tip us a good touch of the heroics." The aide smiled, but then went on anxiously: "But what I do fear, and why I tell you what I do, is for for for Mrs. Meredith and The loss of this force leaves us barely three thousand men to fight Cornwallis's and Knyphausen's fifteen thousand.
In the midst of the emotional scene, Cousin Pussy alone remained sweetly matter-of-fact. Though she was not without orderly sentiments, her character had long ago been swept of heroics, and from her arched gray hair, worn
Peter and Lonegan were together at dinner three hours after the message from The States. "It's a big chance, Mowbray. That's all I can say. I stay at the wire no heroics." "You ought to see it all from here." Lonegan smiled deprecatingly. "Boylan will help you get through. You don't know him yet. Some time, perhaps, you will two hundred and fifty pounds of soul.
In her heart Miss Bracy thought him too hopeful; but she said, "He wrote a becoming letter his hand, by the way, curiously suggests yours; it was quite a nice letter, and agreeably surprised me. I shouldn't wonder if his headmaster had helped him with it and cut out the boyish heroics; for of course she must have taught him to hate us." "My dear Laura, why in the world " began Mr. Frank testily.
"I do not want to be released." "You do not want to be released," she repeated. "No," he said. "They can exchange me. If I remain a prisoner, it will have a greater effect for the South." She smiled again, this time at the boyish touch of heroics. Experience, responsibility, and he would get over that.
Black Hank distributed three men to do the business. There were no heroics. The execution of this man was necessary to him, not because he was particularly angry over the escape of the messenger he expected to capture that individual in due time but in order to preserve his authority over his men.
In didactic poetry, of which the great purpose is instruction, a simile may be praised which illustrates, though it does not ennoble; in heroics, that may be admitted which ennobles, though it does not illustrate. That it may be complete, it is required to exhibit, independently of its references, a pleasing image; for a simile is said to be a short episode.
Bertie who believed in bivalves but not in heroics, thought it best to take the oysters first and eschew the despair entirely. He had one unchangeable quality insouciance; and he had, moreover, one unchangeable faith the King. Lady Guenevere had reached home unnoticed after the accident of their moonlight stag-hunt.
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