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Updated: June 17, 2025
All along by the sedgy banks of the rivers long lines of pages led their masters' chargers down to water, while the knights themselves lounged in gayly-dressed groups about the doors of their pavilions, or rode out, with their falcons upon their wrists and their greyhounds behind them, in quest of quail or of leveret.
Plinth, who was fond of asking questions that she permitted no one but herself to answer. "Assuredly not." "Assuredly not that is what I was going to say," assented Mrs. Leveret, hastily rolling up her opinion and reaching for another. "It was meant to to elevate." Miss Van Vluyck adjusted her spectacles as though they were the black cap of condemnation.
A big sloe-hare, with a leveret or two not for sale and that doe's leverets must have been in the rushes somewhere may, upon occasion, show unexpected fighting-powers. And this one did.
Like a true vulture , Napoleon with an eye not less telescopic, and with a taste equally coarse in his ravin, could descend from the most dazzling heights to pounce on the leveret in the brake, or even on the field mouse amid the grass.
Some imagine that two old dogs should accompany the young one at its first commencement. After the death of the leveret, the young dog must be coaxed and fondled, but never suffered to taste the blood. In kennels in which the training is regularly conducted, the dog should be brushed all over twice every day.
So the governor and his councillor stood shoulder to shoulder at one window, debating Count Frontenac's message; and shoulder to shoulder at another stood Iberville and Jessica Leveret. And what was between these at that moment though none could have guessed it signified as much to the colonies of France and England, at strife in the New World, as the deliberations of their elders.
"Yes, you rascal!" said Bevis, putting a pinch of powder on the touch-hole, "you know you are a wicked story-teller; you killed the poor leveret after I let you loose. Now!" and he went down on one knee, and put his cannon-stick on the other as a rest to keep it straight. "Wait a minute," said the weasel, "just listen to me a minute. I assure you "
'I pretended to want to save it, she answered, honestly enough, 'as it was so glaringly out of season; but I was better pleased to see it lolled. However, you can both witness that I couldn't help it: Prince was determined to have her; and he clutched her by the back, and killed her in a minute! Wasn't it a noble chase? 'Very! for a young lady after a leveret.
He was for getting William Phips, a man of Boston, to work with him, for Phips had got something of the secret from an old sailor, but when he would have got him, Phips was on his way with a ship of King Charles. I will tell you something more. Mademoiselle Leveret's " "What do you know of Mademoiselle Leveret?" "A little. Mademoiselle's father lost much money in Phips's expedition."
Late one afternoon, when long shadows lay across the mossy bank of the river beyond the tall beeches standing at the entrance to the island thickets, Puss was waiting for the dusk, and dozing meanwhile, but with wide-open eyes, beside her leveret.
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