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Then the good doctor comes across Arnold Armstrong, who was a graceless scamp de mortuis what's the rest of it? and he is quarreling with a lady in black. Behold, says the doctor, they are one and the same." "Why was Mr. Bailey not present at the inquest?" The detective's expression was peculiar. "Because his physician testified that he is ill, and unable to leave his bed." "Ill!" I exclaimed.
That night when the first keen frosts of October made the camp-fires doubly welcome, old Stannard and Jack went off among the pines and built a little blaze all by themselves, and there talked gravely over the strange events of the summer now so fully set before them in those volumes from Russell. All Wolf's wild infatuation. All Gleason's cunning malice, and ah! De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
It's impossible to keep it from him, and impossible to tell him! Oh George! I never knew what family pride was till now. It's incredible. That wretched boy!" "'De mortuis. Come, Gracie! In the midst of death we are in life! Nollie was a plumb little idiot. But it's the war the war! Your father must get used to it; it's a rare chance for his Christianity."
To have done anything so clever as that might have been thought to have earned the right to headstone and epitaph in full. Yet his resting-place remains unmarked, and his name apparently dogged him to the end, and past it. "What was that about De mortuis?" came the question from Murphy. "Nil nisi bonum." "That never should have been raised, in his case. What about De vivis?"
But the Grand Duke waved a dignified dissent, and continued, " that I could never resist green eyes of a peculiar shade." The Baroness, becoming vastly interested in the structure of her fan, went on, with some severity, "Your reputation " "De mortuis " pleaded the Grand Duke. " is bad; and you go from bad to worse." "By no means," said his Highness, "since when I was nineteen "
"She says she's going to plant a dogwood tree there in the spring. We intend to put up a little stone for him, and I'm trying to think of an inscription, I thought of De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum, but that's a bit too flippant." The living quarters of the house had not been damaged by the explosion, and Roger took Aubrey back to the den. "You've come just at the right time," he said. "Mr.
Indeed, the maxim nil mortuis nisi bonum had most likely at one time a fetichistic flavour. In various islands of the Pacific, for both the reasons above specified, the name of the reigning chief is so rigorously "tabu," that common words and even syllables resembling that name in sound must be omitted from the language.
Nor let us forget Pyrrhic victory, Parthian dart, and Homeric laughter; quos deus vult and nil de mortuis; Sturm und Drang; masterly inactivity, unctuous rectitude, mute inglorious Miltons, and damned good-natured friends; the sword of Damocles, the thin edge of the wedge, the long arm of coincidence, and the soul of goodness in things evil; Hobson's choice, Frankenstein's monster, Macaulay's schoolboy, Lord Burleigh's nod, Sir Boyle Roche's bird, Mahomed's coffin, and Davy Jones's locker.
His ergo hominibus dum vivunt, magnos exhibent honores; mortuis vero vel templa vel monumenta extruunt amplissima, eosque contingere ac sepelire maximae fortunae ducunt loco. Audivimus haec dicta et dicenda per interpretem a Mucrelo nostro.
A report of his death was put into circulation, and a loyal journal published in Kilkenny the native town of the young rebel, who in this instance played his first trick on the government referred to his supposed decease in terms which showed that the rule de mortuis nil nisi bonum found acceptance with the editor.
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