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They were held together by ties stronger than those which bind kindred they were fellow-topers, and could drink about equally deep. They generally concluded an evening's entertainment in somewhat the following manner: Cox would say, "Hic, Barclay, you'r drunk; better go home, hic."
Propino tibi salutem, Doctor doctissime, reverendissime, et sanctissime; nec non omnibus amicis hic congregatis!" The priest's eye, during this speech, twinkled with humor; he saw clearly that Denis thoroughly understood the raillery of his toast, and that the compliment was well repaid.
He waved his right hand airily, and the boy noticed that it was covered from wrist to knuckles with what appeared to be a fingerless glove of black velvet. "The boy has taken no harm. Hic niger est, as Horace somewhere hath it; and black spells Indian to your too hasty friends yonder. Scipio is his praenomen, bestowed on him by me to match the cognomen his already by nature Africanus, to wit.
The virtues that win a place in Elysium indicate the same fusion of religion with humanitarian sympathies: Hic manus ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi, Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, Quique pii vates et Phoebo digna locuti, Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artis, Quique sui memores aliquos fecere merendo: Omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
"We can pretend I crossed the Styx to fetch you. Now I must speak to the soul in Latin, because, of course, Charon and Cerberus talked Latin always." "I suppose Cerberus barked in Latin all three mouths at once," said Maurice; "what a horrid row it must have been!" "Now talk away," said Bryda. "But we don't know Latin; I've only just begun at hic, haec, hoc."
"I will gladly take the bank," said Segrave eagerly. "Pardi! I care not who hath the bank," quoth Lord Walterton, with the slow emphasis of the inebriated. "My system takes time to work.... And I stand to lose a good deal unless ... hic ... unless I win!" "You are not where you were, when you began," commented Sir Michael grimly. "By Gad, no! ... hic ... but 'tis no matter.... Give me time!"
The centre of attraction is a large grotto, with an altar and a silver star under it, and around the star is written, "Hic de Virgine Maria Jesus Christus natus est." The manger where the animals fed is an excavation in the rock. The next day, having exhausted the objects of interest in and about Bethlehem, we continued our travels.
Did he then remember the admonitions which the wearer of this armour had uttered, upon his deathbed, to him and his brothers?" "Oh yes, well he remembered them; but what did this long sermon denote?" Ille. "This he would soon know. Had he not given his right hand to the wearer of that armour, and pledged himself ever to set a good example before the people committed to his rule?" Hic.
"Horace, Carm. 'Tis not his profession to know either how to hunt or to dance well; "Orabunt causas alii, coelique meatus Describent radio, et fulgentia sidera dicent; Hic regere imperio populos sciat."
"Oh, do, do, for the sake of my twins," said Mole, in his most persuasive manner, "and I'll stand any thing you like to hic to name. Don't take me away, but come and liquor up with me." "Silence!" thundered the irritable devil "I'm dumb." "Away with you, and repent." Mole staggered off.
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