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Upon his back he carried a sort of wire box rather less than six feet long, some two feet high, and about two feet wide. In short, it was a stout framework covered with fine wire-netting on the top, sides and ends, but being open at the bottom. It seemed to be made in five sections or to contain four sliding partitions which could be raised or lowered at will.
In return for promises relating to future political partitions in the Balkans, the monarch pledged himself to oppose all developments likely to speed the democratic evolution, of Rumania.
It went through gloomy and secret corridors, that were hid from the vulgar eye, while thin partitions only separated them from the apartments of the Doge, which, like the specious aspect of the state, concealed the nakedness and misery within, by their gorgeousness and splendor! On reaching the attic, Jacopo stopped, and turned to his conductors.
They consist, exactly as described by Leydig in the Daphniae, of an outer and inner lamina, the space between which is traversed by numerous transverse partitions dilated at their ends; the spaces between these partitions are penetrated by a more abundant flow of blood than occurs anywhere else in the body of the Zoea.
The chambers, which were probably spacious in former times, are now cut up by partitions and subdivided into little nooks, each affording scanty room for the narrow bed and chair and dressing-table of a single lodger: The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole, a feature of grandeur and magnificence.
It may be said of them truly that 'thin partitions do their bounds divide. There cannot be a surer proof of a low origin or of an innate meanness of disposition than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
As they were far too ambitious to submit to the will of their father, we find no less than six different partitions between the years 817 and 840. We cannot stop to trace these complicated and transient arrangements, or the rebellions of the undutiful sons, who set the worst possible example to the ambitious and disorderly nobles.
"Well, they brought the wounded man up-stairs, and put him in the room that adjoined my sleeping apartment. The partitions between were of the sham kind merely boards papered over. After he was settled, and the hum of many voices died away, I went into my little bed-room. "I had scarcely entered when a voice from the next room, a man's voice, deep and full, although then subdued, startled me.
Before I can even lay the first length of the penstock, I've got to have the pipe to make which I've got to have flat steel to get which I'll have to cut some of the partitions out of this ship of ours to do which I'll have to have a cutting torch to make which I'll have to forge nozzles out of block metal and to run which I'll have to have gas to get which I'll have to mine coal and build a gas-plant to do which...."