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Five hundred feet below him the over-running floods of spring were caught between the ragged edges of the two chasm walls, beating themselves in their fury to the whiteness of milk froth, until it seemed as though the earth itself must tremble under their mad rush.
After you struck back, David, what would you do next?" "I don't know, sir. I'm not a strategist, I'm afraid." "What about your cities? The millions of people trapped without supplies over-running the countryside, looting, plundering in search of food. Carrying pestilence and disease and terror. What would you do, David?" "Well, I guess I'd try to organize some relief organization or something."
Might as well put up here for the night," he added, as they came to a village hotel. It was evident that little more could be done in the rain and darkness, and there was danger of over-running the trail of the tank if they kept on. So they turned in at the hotel and got what little rest they could in their anxious state of minds.
Brangaene, she believes, is deceived by her over-great anxiety, deceived by the rustling of the leaves. "You," Brangaene retorts, "are deceived by the impetuosity of your desire! I hear the sound of the horns." Isolde again listens. "No!" she discourses in her over-running tender exhilaration, "the sound of horns was never so pleasing as that!
So far the only outward evidences of the new position are the over-running of the ports, especially of Tangier, by Frenchmen of an undesirable class, and by an attempt to establish a French colony at the closed port of Mehedîya by doubtful means, to say nothing of the increased smuggling of arms.
First, the Turks are defending themselves instead of attacking Egypt and over-running Basra; secondly, we are told on high authority, that the action of the Italians in coming in was precipitated by our entry into this part of the theatre; thirdly, if we can only hold on and continue to enfeeble the Turks, I think myself it will not be very long before some of the Balkan States take the bloody plunge.
Over a million inhabitants have sought refuge in other parts of Austria, and they are in sheer destitution." Truly, "War is hell!" Following the invasion and over-running of Belgium by the Germans, the problem of feeding the Belgian population became an urgent one.
And my Cid chose out two hundred horsemen and went out by night, and fell upon the lands of Alcaniz and brought away great booty. Great was the talk among the Moors; how my Cid was over-running the country. When Don Ramon Berenguer the Count of Barcelona heard this, it troubled him to the heart, and he held it for a great dishonour, because that part of the land of the Moors was in his keeping.
Then Madame turned her bright eyes, over-running with laughter, to her friend, and there was a blush, faint and rosy as a girl's, on her cheek. 'Because, my dear, I have accepted another situation a permanent one. I am going to marry again. 'Oh, Henrietta, impossible! 'Quite true, my dear. 'Another foreign gentleman, of course? 'Why of course? No, I am going to rise in the world.
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