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The establishment was small, the country was impoverished; even clock-making grew tedious at last. He brooded for in spite of his piety the Duke was not without a vein of superstition over the prophecy of a gipsy at Gibraltar who told him that he was to have many losses and crosses, that he was to die in happiness, and that his only child was to be a great queen.
I have lost a throw, perhaps, but I will recoup ten such losses with one such kiss. By your leave, lady." He went up to her where she stood, with hanging arms, her head a little bent, white and cold and yielding as a lady done in snow; gazed at her a moment, with his passion written in his fierce eyes and haggard, handsome face; then crushed her to him.
I did not wait to be pressed but placed a thousand guineas on the table, and as I had no counters of any kind I warned the company that I would only play gold against gold, and that I should stop playing whenever I thought fit. Before the game began the two counts paid their losses of the day before to the general in bank notes, which he begged me to change.
They breathed solid dust. The air was laden deep with it. And THIS was the diamond fields! This was the Golconda where Guy was to find six thousand pounds ready made to recover his losses and to repay Cyril. Oh, horrible, horrible. His heart sank low at it. And still they went on, and on, and on, and on, through the mist of dust to the place for out-spanning.
The Belgian right wing thus became a rear guard. It withstood the German attack until the early morning of August 20, 1914, when, separated from the main body, the overpowering number of German guns and men drove it back to a final stand between Louvain and Brussels. If its losses had been heavy, the carrying away of the wounded proved that it still maintained a fighting front.
Such was our true situation. We reached Tentoura on the 20th of May, when a most oppressive heat prevailed, and produced general dejection. We had nothing to sleep on but the parched and burning sand; on our right lay a hostile sea; our losses in wounded and sick were already considerable since leaving Acre; and there was nothing consolatory in the future.
When mechanical power is employed for producing a current by means of a magneto-electric or dynamo-electric machine or, to use a better expression, by means of a mechanical generator of electricity it is necessary in reality to expend a greater quantity of power than i squaredR in order to make up for losses which result either from ordinary friction or from certain electro magnetic reactions which occur.
But these movements on the part of the Boers had brought them better within range of our pieces, for they were more exposed upon climbing up the slopes; and I had plain evidence of the loss they sustained. At last night began to fall, and the firing of the attacking force, dropped off. It was plain that the Boers were retiring, possibly disheartened by their heavy losses.
The statements concerning the losses of airships and aeroplanes published by the various armies and newspapers in most cases were disputed for their accuracy.
They and men of less rank dreamed of a triumph which should restore the fortunes of the Confederacy to the full, but Bragg was cautious. He did not wish to incur the uttermost risk, and the roll of his vast losses might well give him pause also. Nevertheless Southern infantry and cavalry hung on the flanks and rear of the withdrawing Union force.
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