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Stumpy lost his "grub" by misadventure, but found somebody else's, withstood a fierce argument for ten minutes and finally pacified his opponent by "finding" still another issue. Hoarse orders sent men probing about for their rifles and assortment of equipment. The Ten Hundred filed out.

Neither Asuras, nor Gandharvas, nor Pisachas, nor Rakshasas, nor Uragas, Yakshas, and birds, nor human beings, can venture to baffle this weapon shot by me. This fiery weapon, however, having slain only one Akshauhini of troops, hath been pacified. This exceedingly fierce weapon shot by me is capable of slaying all creatures.

''Tis nothing at all, said Landsmath; 'you must laugh at it; we shall hunt a stag together in four days. 'But suppose the blade was poisoned, said the King. 'Old grandams' tales, replied Landsmath; 'if it had been so, the waistcoats and flannels would have rubbed the poison off. The King was pacified, and passed a very good night. "His Majesty one day asked M. de Landsmath how old he was.

Convinced by my wearing these slippers that I could have had no insidious designs, since I shared the danger, whatever it might be, the merchants were a little pacified; but what was my terror and remorse the next day, when one of them came to inform me that plague-boils had broken out under the arms of all the slaves who had worn this pestilential apparel!

And then came the farmer, a good-like sort of man, grave, and well-behaved; and spoke to me in such sort, as made me a little pacified; and seeing no help for it, I went in; and the wife immediately conducted me up stairs to the best apartment, and told me, that was mine as long as I staid: and nobody should come near me but when I called.

But the song pacified him; and, with a misty sense of his importance in a convivial point of view, on account of the manner in which he had acquitted himself in the chorus, he now essayed a higher flight, and treated the party to a new version of "The Pope," oddly condensed into one verse, as follows:

As for Miss Matthews, he had at length pacified her with a promise to make her a visit; which promise she extorted from him, swearing bitterly, in the most solemn manner, unless he made it to her, she would expose both him and herself at the masquerade.

At noon, on that day, the lion rose and walked to the pool, which was only a few yards distant, looking behind him every moment to see if the man moved; the man once more attempted to reach his gun, and the lion, perceiving it, turned in a rage, and was on the point of springing upon him; the man withdrew his hand, and the beast was pacified." "How very strange!"

She went home directly, and so heartbroken, that Jael Dence pitied her deeply, and went with her, intending to stay a day or two only. But every day something or other occurred, which combined with Grace's prayers to keep her at Woodbine Villa. Mr. Coventry remained quiet for some days, by which means he pacified Grace's terrors. On the fourth day Mr.

The telephone bell whirred and Mac closed his mouth abruptly on his third consecutive yawn and sprang to the instrument. We sat and watched. There was some little trouble on the line at first, common in party lines where outside bells sometimes ring and the owners have to be pacified. Then "Oh yes" "Yes, I hear you Yes" and a long unintelligible series of affirmatives in different keys.