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All the men and the remaining animals reached the island in safety, but on account of the heavy fire poured in from the neighboring hills the packs containing the rations and medicines had to be abandoned.
Their zeal outstripped their judgment in this latter service, and the result was an icy stream of water that poured into the car. The water struck the lady given to hysterics, and she promptly opened her mouth and shrieked again. "We're drowning!" she cried, her terrified mind picturing a broken water pipe. "I tell you, we're drowning!" "And I tell you we're not!"
Suddenly there came the sharp crack, crack, of many rifles; and from beneath the two lads came the hoarse command of an officer: "Forward!" The line of horsemen quickened their pace; and then the firing ahead broke into a loud and steady roar. For many minutes, it seemed to the two lads, the stream of horsemen poured on beneath them.
Here it was, then, that the water had poured in bursting forth from a lake above by which the city at one stroke had been overwhelmed. Some little notice, by the mighty roaring that must have accompanied so great a crash of rocks and so vast a rush of water, the dwellers in the city must have had; and the gleam of the pouring waters would have shown them the nature of the ruin that was upon them.
The renaissance clerics, the Gallicans, the Jansenists, and the Protestants poured forth volumes of hostile and unmerited criticism on the matter and form of Rome's sacred songs.
The sewage is applied directly to the land, and so becomes a source of wealth instead of being emptied into great subterranean reservoirs, to generate poisonous gases, which by a most ingenious arrangement, are then poured forth into the very heart of our dwellings, as is the case in the great cities. Neither is there any waste of broken victuals.
Nor did they eat rapidly, knowing it was not wise to do so, but took little pieces, masticating them long and well, and allowing a decent interval between. Their satisfaction was intense and enormous. Life, fresh and vigorous, poured back into their veins. "I'm sorry our bear had to die," said Robert, "but he perished in a good cause.
The latter, however, when they came back much battered into the city, roused their comrades to avenge them. So on the next day they came with swords and clubs to Saint Marcel's, and entering forcibly the house of a certain shop keeper, broke up all his wine casks and poured the wine out on the floor of the house.
There was more or less fog throughout the day; but towards sundown a breeze blew from the shore, the fog rolled back upon the sea, the clouds broke into wild flying masses, the blue sky shone through, and the sunset poured its placid glory upon the scene. Again the troops crowded the decks. The fleet was entering Hampton Roads.
Among the crowd of legislators which at this conjuncture poured from all the provinces of France into Paris, Barere made no contemptible figure. The opinions which he for the moment professed were popular, yet not extreme.
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