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"It so chanced what mere trifles are we ruled by in our destiny! that just as my suit with the widow had assumed its most favorable footing, old General Hinks, that commanded the district, announced his coming over to inspect our regiment. Over he came accordingly, and to be sure, we had a day of it.
What she said he weighed carefully, and seemed to think that she had set his doubts at rest. 'Poor old Hinks! he said presently, with a sigh. 'Breaking up, isn't he? He positively totters in his walk. I'm afraid he's the kind of man to have a paralytic stroke; it wouldn't astonish me to hear at any moment that he was lying helpless. 'What ever would become of him in that case? 'Goodness knows!
'Father, she said, hoping to make a diversion, 'Mr Hinks has sent you his new book, and wishes 'Then take Mr Hinks's new book back to him, and tell him that I have quite enough to do without reading tedious trash. He needn't expect that I'm going to write a notice of it. The simpleton pesters me beyond endurance.
"We have a good supply of sandal-wood, however," observes Phineas Golding. "But we had a narrow escape from the savages." Not a word does he say of his merciful preservation from death; and far be it from me to hint that by my promptness I had a second time saved him, and all with him, from destruction. Tony Hinks, however, when we are clear away at sea, comes up to me and says
The first mate lies dead on the deck near the companion, and further forward are Tony Hinks and a seaman with their heads beaten in. The supercargo is defending himself with a capstan-bar against several savages, while the captain stands in one of the quarter boats, which has been lowered partly down, pointing a telescope at the savages, who look at it as if they think it some sort of firearm.
The parallax of the sun is the angle subtended by the earth's radius at the sun's distance. A. R. Hinks, R.A.S.; Monthly Notices, June, 1909. Ph. The writer considers that it is more likely that these notes refer to a kind of camera obscura, in which a lens throws an inverted image of a landscape on the wall.
"Not for those who're insured," said Mr. Wintershed. "I was thinking of them assistants from Mantell and Throbson's. They must have lost nearly everything." "They'll be looked after all right," said Mr. Rumbold. "Never fear." Pause. "I'm insured," said Mr. Clamp, with unconcealed satisfaction. "Royal Salamander." "Same here," said Mr. Wintershed. "Mine's the Glasgow Sun," Mr. Hinks remarked.
When Grant made his first crossing of the James and began the movement against Petersburg, General Beauregard had only Wise's Brigade of infantry, twenty-two pieces of artillery, two regiments of cavalry under General Bearing, and a few regiments of local militia. Kant's Cavalry and one division of negro troops, under Hinks, had joined their forces with Smith after coming to the south side.
Two or three recent cuts on his chin and neck were the result of conscientious shaving with an unsteady hand. 'I have been looking for your father, he said, as Marian turned. 'Isn't he here? 'He has gone, Mr Hinks. 'Ah, then would you do me the kindness to take a book for him? In fact, it's my little "Essay on the Historical Drama," just out.
We open fire, and keep the savages at bay. The war-canoes, however, approach, Hinks' boat gets up to us. It is doubtful whether we or our enemies will gain the ship first. We pull for our lives. Simon Fuller will fight his ship to the last. Our shipmates are casting loose the guns ready for action. The savages in the war-canoes stand up ready to shower down their darts and stones at us.
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