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Updated: May 16, 2025
North of the city were encamped five thousand men. He had come prepared to cancel the little obligation of fifteen years standing. With the hated creditor in the castle, his influence hovering above the town, the populace distracted by the thoughts of the day to come, Gabriel played what he considered his best card.
While slaughtering the cattle it was amusing to notice the familiarity of the carrion hawks, hundreds of which were collected about, perched upon the little hillocks all round, watching every movement of ours, or hovering overhead within the distance of a few yards.
"You could not die here! You are not dying! You cannot, shall not die!" She spoke as though she believed that her potent volition could frighten away the death-angels hovering near, and prolong his life.
She threw her eyes upward and beheld them hovering about Hilda's head; for, after her friend's departure, the girl had been more impressed than before by something very sad and troubled in her manner.
The King watched her, a little smile hovering about his mouth. "If I might help you!" he said softly "but that is a task for my Resemblance!" She appeared not to hear him. A sudden determination moved her, and she uttered her thought boldly and at all hazards.
I pointed to an eagle hovering in the air, imitated his cry, and begged you to do so too. It was not done without a purpose, mother: I wished you to learn his cry, in order that you, too, might call your brood in case of need." The mother smiled. "A strange idea! What would people think if I should step out before the door, and scream into the air in the tones of an eagle?"
Loves to be praised for his splendid house; and when told that he looks younger than ten years ago, says "Well, really; do you think so!" But the brief strut of his life is about over. Up-stairs he dies. No angel wings hovering about him. No gospel promises kindling up the darkness; but exquisite embroidery, elegant pictures, and a bust of Shakespeare on the mantel. The pulses stop.
I turned and beckoned to Betty and Marigold, who had been hovering out of earshot by the house door. They approached. "I want to have a word with Marigold," I said. Tufton saluted and went off with Betty. Sergeant Marigold stood stiff as a ramrod on the spot which Tufton had occupied. "I suppose Mrs. Connor," said I, "has told you all about this poor chap?" "Yes, sir," said Marigold.
Over our heads screamed hundreds of hovering birds, the gull mingling its hideous laughter most wildly." One wild and stormy night in September 1838 such a night as induces those on land to draw closer round the fire, and offer up, perchance, a silent prayer for those who are at sea a steamer was battling, at disadvantage with the billows, off Saint Abb's Head.
His "Ho! ho! ho!" startled her into looking up, and seeing it apparently resuscitated, and hovering aloft. Full of dismay, she hurried shrieking away to tell the story of the bewitched chick at the market-cross among her gossips.
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