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One would think we had been talking about a witch or a demon-lady you are so frightened at the notion of her having you in her eye. He did not seem altogether relieved, and I caught an uneasy glance seeking my countenance. 'But isn't she charming? I went on. 'It is only to you I could talk about her so. And after all it may be only a fancy.
That's our only chance of getting to close quarters. 'A frontal attack, put in Dave. 'What price our heads if they start shooting off the gun? 'They probably won't start until they have light enough to see where they're shooting, returned Ken. 'Horan's notion is all right. Come on. 'But mind you, he whispered urgently, 'we must keep one bomb for the gun.
Hence their love of posterity and their contempt of death. They have no notion of more than one Divine Being, who is only grasped by the mind. They deem it profane to fashion images of gods out of perishable matter, and teach that their Being is supreme and eternal, immutable and imperishable.
"When I arrived at Beaufort House," he said, "fully and painfully impressed with the notion that this poor young lady was drowned, I was met by the Duke at the very door of his library with a letter in his hand.
It was a hot though a blustery afternoon, and the sea, in sight through the open door, sounded the deeper notes of its endless opera. "Hank." "I'm here, my boy." "Have you thought about what I told you to do?" "Are you still clinging to that notion?" "No; it is clinging to me. Have you thought about it?" "Yes." "And what did you think?"
Nothing in this world, Betteredge, is probable unless it appeals to our own trumpery experience; and we only believe in a romance when we see it in a newspaper." It was plain to me from this, that Mr. Franklin thought his father's notion about the Colonel hasty and wrong. "What is your own private opinion about the matter, sir?" I asked. "Let's finish the story of the Colonel first," says Mr.
Moodie, if ever you travel that way in summer, you will know something about corduroy roads. I was 'most jolted to death last fall; I thought it would have been no bad notion to have insured my teeth before I left C . I really expected that they would have been shook out of my head before we had done manoeuvring over the big logs."
However, as the Law condemned them to suffer, they were bound to submit, and in consequence of that notion, behaved themselves very orderly, decently and quietly, while under sentence.
Cooped up within four walls one gets a better notion of the varieties, the lights and shadows, of home-life than one gets in Pall Mall.
He and his accomplice were attacked by those who had charge of it; but the latter were beaten off, and the rogues escaped in triumph. This incident gives a notion of the moral character of the people in that respect. On another occasion Oreo entertained the strangers with a feast, in the native fashion.
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