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It would be well for us all to consider whether we have yet given the order to the man with the ink-horn, "Set down my name." SECTION L. Third side. Discord; holding up her finger, but needing the inscription above to assure us of her meaning, "DISCORDIA SUM, DISCORDIANS." In the Renaissance copy she is a meek and nun-like person with a veil.

I understand that you have already considered the matter, so that there is no more to be said." He stepped down from the dais and passed round to the further side of the table. One of the secretaries pushed an ink-horn and a couple of quills across to him. "My Lord Prior," said Dr. Petre, with a slight bow.

Clapperton, besides suffering from hunger and thirst, lost his horse and all his camels, which died, while his journal, ink-horn, pens, and spectacles were stolen; nor did he ever recover them one of the greatest misfortunes that could happen to a traveller. On the 15th of October, about noon, he arrived at Bello's camp, and was immediately admitted to an audience.

Giles, bring now the book of clean parchment I took from Garthlaxton, together with pens and ink-horn, and it shall be henceforth a record of us every one, our names, our number, and the good or ill we each one do achieve." So there and then, while the sun rose high and higher and the mists of dawn thinned and vanished, phantom-like, the record was begun.

Dick went and returned presently with an ink-horn, a roll of parchment, pens and a little table. Then Hugh sat himself down on the altar rail, placing the table in front of him and said: "Say on. I'll write, since you cannot." Now Nicholas, having before his glazing eyes the vision of imminent judgment, briefly but clearly told all the truth at last.

Though Heaven knows how unhandy the pen is to me who was always readier with sword than ink-horn when I left London two long years since. Now, roaring drunk in the West is but fuddled in the East, and I was drunk Nor'-Nor' Easterly as Mr. Shakespeare might have said.

Elizabeth Tilley had a more quiet life, but she excelled her associates among these girls of Plymouth in one way, she could write her name very well. Possibly she was taught by her husband, John Howland who left, in his inventory, an ink-horn, and who wrote records and letters often for the colonists.

Moreover I am skilled in logic and rhetoric and mathematics and the making of talismans and calendars and the Cabala, and I understand all these branches of knowledge thoroughly. But bring me ink-horn and paper, and I will write thee a letter that will profit thee at Baghdad and enable thee to dispense with passports." When the merchant heard this, he cried out, "Excellent! Excellent!

Oh, 'tis a great thing to have such power! See, here are ink-horn, powder and paper! What doth hinder you from writing an order for his release?" She stepped quickly to the table as she spoke, and picking up a quill held it appealingly toward him. His eyes softened. "Stay!" he said. "I do feel just that way, Miss Harriet, but there is a duty that must be performed toward our people.

Johnson's age, could not have been of long duration; but he bequeathed him only two hundred pounds, which was the legacy given to each of his executors . I could not but be somewhat diverted by hearing Johnson talk in a pompous manner of his new office, and particularly of the concerns of the brewery, which it was at last resolved should be sold . Lord Lucan tells a very good story, which, if not precisely exact, is certainly characteristic: that when the sale of Thrale's brewery was going forward, Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his button-hole, like an excise-man; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats but the potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice .

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