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"I hear you are going to farm the whole of Los Muertos this season," remarked Annixter, with a certain note of challenge in his voice. "We are thinking of it," replied Magnus. Annixter grunted scornfully. "Did you get the message I sent you by Presley?" he began. Tactless, blunt, and direct, Annixter was quite capable of calling even Magnus a fool to his face.
A castor was a sort of title of nobility, and this one always lifted me in the opinions of every one that sat down at my table. Magnus said he was sure Christina would be tickled yust plumb to death with it. Ah! Christina was a wonderful legal fiction, as N.V. calls it.
It was not likely that a belief so widely spread should not have extended itself to the North; and the grave assertions of Olaus Magnus in the sixteenth century, in his Treatise De Gentibus Septentrionalibus, show how common the belief in were-wolves was in Sweden so late as the time of Gustavus Vasa.
Annie, your husband is a disappointed man." "Give me your word," she insisted. "We can talk about other things afterward." Again Magnus wavered, about to yield to his better instincts and to the entreaties of his wife. He began to see how perilously far he had gone in this business. He was drifting closer to it every hour.
However, Apion is ignorant of what every body knows, that the Egyptians were servants to the Persians, and afterwards to the Macedonians, when they were lords of Asia, and were no better than slaves, while we have enjoyed liberty formerly; nay, more than that, have had the dominion of the cities that lie round about us, and this nearly for a hundred and twenty years together, until Pompeius Magnus.
In the course of the night, the old man had several fits of restlessness and delirium; he would call out upon Theophrastus, and Geber, and Albertus Magnus, and other sages of his art; and anon would murmur about fermentation and projection, until, toward daylight, he once more sunk into a salutary sleep.
Meanwhile such giants as Alexander Hales and Roger Bacon and Duns Scotus among the Minorites all Englishmen be it remembered and Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus among the Dominicans, had given to intellectual life that amazing lift into a higher region of thought, speculation, and inquiry which prepared the way for greater things by-and-by.
Adair laughed with imperturbable good-humor. "The factions were there, just the same. You see, it's like this: Brewster and Magnus and two or three more are pretty well-to-do, and their holdings in P. S-W. don't cut much of a figure with them, one way or another. The others have more stock in the company, and fewer millions.
She has got horrible news to tell you." "Oh, heavens! What news?" "I suppose she will tell you, though she has not been communicative to me in regard to your royal highness. The news is simply that her mother is going to take her to Brussels, and that she is to live for a while amid the ambassadorial splendors with Sir Magnus and his wife." By retiring from the world Mrs.
It was not long before he was standing over the great copper coffin, and, as usual, talking to himself aloud: 'You may have been a bit of a rascal in your time, Magnus, he was saying, 'but for all that I should like to see you, or, rather 'Just at that instant, he says, 'I felt a blow on my foot. Hastily enough I drew it back, and something fell on the pavement with a clash.
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