United States or Antigua and Barbuda ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
When we rejoice in the freedom of our country we ought not to forget how much we owe the partisans, and especially such men as Justice Gaston and the Rev. William Martin, who first set the partisans at their work. It would have been much easier and pleasanter for them to remain quiet under British rule; and they had nothing to gain for themselves, but everything to lose, by the course they took.
And now," he added, more calmly, "we will look at the present difficulty steadily, and seek to know the right." "The right way," said Edith, after she had to some extent repressed the glad pulses that leaped to her husband's loving words, "is not always the way in which we most desire to walk. Thorns, sometimes, are at its entrance. But it grows pleasanter afterward."
This made me think of the woman and her story, and I found myself unconsciously clasping my baby closer. The cortèges became so numerous at last that to shut out painful sights I closed my eyes and tried to think of pleasanter things. I thought, above all, of Mrs.
If things would not run into each other so, it would be a thousand times easier and a million times pleasanter to get on in the world. Let the sheepiness be set on one side and the goatiness on the other, and immediately you know where you are.
The bell of St. Paul's was striking midnight as they entered. The Captain and his family had long since gone off to bed. "This reminds one of that last business," John whispered, as they went quietly upstairs. "It does, John. But it has been a pleasanter evening in every way than those fruitless watches we kept in the street below."
He had sense and ability enough to have made himself a scholar, but found so many pleasanter things to do that he seldom took hold of a book with his whole heart. So fond was George of boisterous sports and exercises that it was really a great token of affection and sympathy when he offered to sit all day long in a dark chamber with his poor brother Edward.
We can stay until it is sold, or can leave by giving a fortnight's notice at any time, if we prefer." "And then where will you go?" "Oh, we haven't planned that far," said Camille. "I say, let it be in the suburbs. I hate to think of an apartment, again." "But, my dear, there are far pleasanter ones than we used to know," put in her mother gently. "I do regret leaving here, though.
On July 16 the wind was northwest and clear, the sea smooth, and a large bark, hull down, came in sight on the lee bow, and at 2:30 P.M. I spoke the stranger. She was the bark Java of Glasgow, from Peru for Queenstown for orders. Her old captain was bearish, but I met a bear once in Alaska that looked pleasanter. At least, the bear seemed pleased to meet me, but this grizzly old man!
Like the other great houses, it is a museum of paintings, statues, objects of interest of all sorts. It must be confessed that it is pleasanter to go through the rooms with one of the ladies of the household than under the lead of a liveried servant. Lord Hartington came in while we were there.
We were now much nearer our work and it progressed much faster, although as the ridge rose it became steeper and steeper and even more rugged and chaotic, and the difficulty and danger of its passage increased. Our situation up here was decidedly pleasanter than below.
Word Of The Day