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To his balloon, inflated with gas, he had suspended a mongolfier filled with warm air, undoubtedly to save the trouble of letting off gas, or throwing out ballast. It was like putting a chafing-dish beneath a powder-cask. The imprudent men rose to a height of four hundred metres, and encountered opposing winds, which drove them over the ocean.
I don't argue and I don't beseech any further: I just sit on guard, as I would over a powder-cask. My father raised himself on an elbow. 'The explosion, he said, examining his watch, 'occurred at about five minutes to eleven we are advancing into the morning last night. I received on your behalf the congratulations of friends Loftus, Alton, Segrave, and the rest, at that hour.
"Don't smoke upon the powder-cask; wasting courage for nothing is like carrying water in a basket. Gerard," he added, in the ear of his adjutant, "get nearer, by degrees, to that fellow, and watch him; at the first suspicious action put your sword through him. As for me, I must take measures to carry on the ball if our unseen adversaries choose to open it."
Mistress Mary was pale with dismay, and yet her mouth twitched with laughter at the notion of displaying, before the horrified eyes of Madam Cavendish, those grim adornments which had arrived in the Golden Horn. "La," said she, "when they come a-trundling in a powder-cask and I courtesy and say, 'Madam, here is my furbelowed and gold-flowered sacque, I wonder what will come to pass."
The faculty of love had not been at all employed, and the letter came like a spark in a powder-cask; it ran glowing through every nerve.
He attended a christening party at a house where there was a forgotten powder-cask; a spark fell into the powder and in the ensuing explosion Guayubin's eyesight was destroyed. Grimly refusing to take food or drink, he pined away. Prior to the American occupation, the Dominican penal establishments were as a rule in very bad condition.
Here follows the order of our embarkation. In the first division, sat the tender mother, the faithful and pious wife. In the second, our amiable little Francis, six years old, and of a sweet disposition. In the third, Fritz, our eldest, fourteen or fifteen years old, a curly-headed, clever, intelligent and lively youth. In the fourth, the powder-cask, with the fowls and the sailcloth.
We have seen that his agency in these cruel events had been at the outset a potent one. Whatever else it may have been, it was at least the agency of the match that explodes the powder-cask. Under the conditions of that savage society, organized leadership was not to be looked for. In the irregular and disorderly series of murdering raids Philip may have been often present, but except for Mrs.
I don't argue and I don't beseech any further: I just sit on guard, as I would over a powder-cask. My father raised himself on an elbow. 'The explosion, he said, examining his watch, 'occurred at about five minutes to eleven we are advancing into the morning last night. I received on your behalf the congratulations of friends Loftus, Alton, Segrave, and the rest, at that hour.
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