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I signed my name without hesitation, for where is the man in love who in such a case would have refused that service to a person who to revenge himself might have made him miserable? We made an appointment for the evening, and parted highly pleased with each other.
Usually he was of a most accommodating nature; and on numerous occasions had willingly entrusted his highly valued camera into the keeping of the other boys, who knew how to use it almost as well as did the owner himself. "I'd rather not, if it's all the same to you, Bluff," he remarked slowly.
However, I had chosen to go with my regiment and so I placed myself in front of the élite company, having beside me their gallant captain, M. Courteau, one of the finest of officers and one whom I valued most highly.
Doctor Frank gave her an opiate that soothed her and sent her to sleep." As he spoke, Doctor Frank himself appeared, his calm face as impenetrable as ever. "How is your patient, Doctor?" asked Kate. "Much better, Miss Kate. In a day or two we will have her all right, I think. She is a nervous little creature, with an overstrung and highly imaginative temperament.
Swift's Stella, a woman of refinement, was highly indignant at remarks being made before her of a licentious character, but she herself used expressions of the grossest description without a thought of impropriety. The same distinction is seen in the essays and novels of the time.
“The religious never get married,” turning very red, “and don’t live in the world like others.” “Look heah, chile, you t’inks I’se fool? Religion no religion, whar you gwine live ef you don’ live in de word? Gwine live up in de moon?” “You’re a very ignorant person,” replied Lucilla, highly offended. “A religious devotes her life to God, and lives in the convent.”
Paul says, Titus ii: "Thou shalt exhort servants that they highly honor their masters, be obedient, do what pleases them, not cheating them nor opposing them"; for this reason also: because they thereby bring the doctrine of Christ and our faith into good repute, that the heathen cannot complain of us and be offended. St.
It was highly improbable that the horses, which were now being cared for by the knacker of Dresden, would ever be restored to the condition they were in when they left the stables at Kohlhaasenbrück.
The project was universally ridiculed as the chimerical offspring of a visionary brain; but the offer was highly valuable, if its promises should be but partially fulfilled. Certain circles in Bohemia were assigned to him as depots, with authority to appoint his own officers.
Our treaty stipulations should be observed with fidelity and our legislation should be highly considerate of the best interests of an ignorant and helpless people. The reservations are now generally surrounded by white settlements.
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