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Both Allies and Germans suffered immense lasses. Much of the slaughter was due to the point-blank magazine fire and the intermittent shrapnel explosions from bath sides. The mast savage fighting was kept up all along the line, but no advantage accrued ta either side until Friday, October 28, 1914, when the Germans succeeded in crossing the Yser at St.
But mother refused point-blank to let me go to Sandhurst. So now, unless a war crops up and it doesn't look as though there's much chance of that! I'm out of the running. But if it ever does, Sara" he laid his hand eagerly on her knee "I swear I'll be one of the first to volunteer.
He patronised an Independent meeting-house in Crawley parish, much to the indignation of his uncle the Rector, and to the consequent delight of Sir Pitt, who was induced to go himself once or twice, which occasioned some violent sermons at Crawley parish church, directed point-blank at the Baronet's old Gothic pew there.
"Yes, sir," said Sir James; "and they want at least Grayson does Edgar here to become his playmate." "Ah!" ejaculated the Vicar. "Sent word yesterday that they should be glad if Edgar would go and spend the afternoon. Awkward, sir; extremely awkward." "Did he go?" "Go? no, sir; decidedly not. Edgar refused to go, point-blank."
And the knights and ladies of high degree With wonder and horror the action see, While he quietly brings in his hand the glove, The praise of his courage each mouth employs; Meanwhile, with a tender look of love, The promise to him of coming joys, Fair Cunigund welcomes him back to his place. But he threw the glove point-blank in her face: "Lady, no thanks from thee I'll receive!"
Oh, why did you tell him?" "Tell him? My child! I have not told him!" "Oh, mother, do you not see you've told him point-blank that it's all settled?" "No, dearie, no! I only see that your distress is making you fanciful. But why should he not be told, Isabel?" "I'm not ready! Oh, I'm not ready!
Principles dwindle and pale in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates.
"There are two presents to be made to an enemy palla calda o ferro freddo: hot shot or cold steel." The Corsican code of honor does not require that vengeance be taken in fair fight. Rather should there be a sudden thrust of the knife, or a pistol fired point-blank into the enemy's breast, or a rifle-shot from some ambush picked in advance.
The roads agreed to arbitrate all the points, allowing the President to name the arbitrators; but the Brotherhoods, probably realizing their temporary strategic advantage, refused point-blank to arbitrate. When the President tried to persuade the roads to yield the eight-hour day, they replied that it was a proper subject for arbitration.
The color of this fox, in a point-blank view, is black, but viewed at an angle it is a dark silvergray, whence has arisen the notion that the black and the silver-gray are distinct varieties. The tip of the tail is always white. In almost every neighborhood there are traditions of this fox, and it is the dream of young sportsmen; but I have yet to meet the person who has seen one.
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