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He was a little flushed, not knowing exactly how to begin what he had to say; and, being sober, he was terribly afraid of appearing, like an idiot. "This is what is the matter," he said, plunging at once in medias res. "Doctor Fargeas, who sent me, might have come himself; but he thought that I, being her uncle, should "
Then he quoted Horace on the subject of the marriage of the elm and the vine. This lodged him in medias res; and Agellius’s heart beat when he found his uncle proposing to him, as a thought of his own, the very step which he had fancied was almost a secret of his own breast, though Juba had seemed to have some suspicion of it.
After which valiant plunge in medias res, came a great lump of deception, after the manner of youths of the island, and the whitehouses, and the banana groves, and above all, the single volcano towering over the whole, which Shaking a sinful isle with thundering shocks, Reproved the worshippers of stones and stocks.
The fifth day, Emma Thornycroft appeared, and, strange to say, without any of her little ones; still stranger, without many references to them on her lips, except the general information that they were all getting well now. The busy woman evidently had something on her mind, and plunged at once in médias res. "Agatha, dear, I came to have a little talk with you."
The Recollect fathers followed their brethren, but with so few depositions that I judge the number did not reach the plural of the Greeks. These papers, or collections of papers, were going about, when the Troyan plunged in medias res and decided the question. This was an action so extraordinary that, if this were a town of the common people, a riot would have occurred.
About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared Addison wrote these lines: "Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infert Pygmeadum ductor, qui, majestate verendus, Incessuque gravis, reliquos supereminet omnes Mole gigantea, mediamque exsurgit in ulnam."
These last immediately jumped in medias res and on the afternoon of the same day secured a writ of habeas corpus from Norman J. Kitrell, District Judge of Harris County, Texas, returnable the following morning. The next day, January 28th, Kitrell released Dodge from custody.
You need not mention my name to this-er this Mr. Wiles." And with one eye on the door, and an awkward dash of his lips at the lady's fingers, he withdrew. There was no introductory formula to Mr. Wiles's interview. He dashed at once in medias res. "Gashwiler knows a woman that, he says, can help us against that Spanish girl who is coming here with proofs, prettiness, fascination, and what not!
The prince actually felt glad that he had been interrupted, and might return the letters to his pocket. He was glad of the respite. "Well," said Colia, plunging in medias res, as he always did, "here's a go! What do you think of Hippolyte now? Don't respect him any longer, eh?" "Why not? But look here, Colia, I'm tired; besides, the subject is too melancholy to begin upon again.
Having now made my position clear, I will at once plunge in medias res with a few artless observations. You hear all this grumbling which is going on just now against the Unionist leader. Well, gentlemen, a party which is in low water always does grumble at its leader. I have known this sort of thing happen over and over again in my own lifetime.
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