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Updated: June 13, 2025
I was in the act of reporting this matter to the skipper and the second lieutenant, who were walking the quarter-deck together, when Mr Fawcett who, with the captain, had come to a halt at my hail suddenly reeled, staggered, and fell prone upon the deck with a crash.
But on the mountain summits, blood-red in the glow of the sunset, in the boundless sky and on the sea, in all this superb landscape that I had come here to admire I saw only two poor children, one lying prone on the edge of a hole filled with black water, the other submerged to his neck, their hands intertwined, weeping opposite each other, in despair.
Then the nuns heard one deep, shuddering sob. Not a head was lifted. The only nun who peeped was Sister Mary Seraphine, prone upon the floor. After a while, the Prioress arose, pale but calm. "Carry her to her cell," she said. Two tall nuns to whom she made sign lifted Sister Seraphine, and bore her out.
But he only gained his fore legs. The second assistant, a slender youth, resisted his efforts, forcing Pat's head back by sitting upon it. Pat twisted and writhed to throw him off. But the man stayed with him, and finally had him prone to earth again. Whereupon Pat experienced the chagrin of his first defeat. Yet he could see. Upon the retina of each eye danced a picture.
When we left England, we both doubted the accounts of the historians of the Conquest, believing that they had exaggerated the numbers of the population, and the size of the cities, from a natural desire to make the most of their victories, and to write as wonderful a history as they could, as historians are prone to do.
Well, "economists" make stir immense, But in spite of most Draconic manner, Hardly ever seem to save a "tanner." So that one is prone to think indeed, In succession they do not "succeed!" "A LEGGE UP." The new Bishop of LICHFIELD. SCENE The Grounds of a certain Exhibition.
We are all prone to forget the injunction, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged, and instead of remembering that we are directed to bear one another's burdens, we gall the shoulders of many, by increasing the weights we should lighten. Janet, don't flay all the poor young widows; leave them to such measures of peace as they may find among their weeds."
She was her own background and also her own foreground. The strength of the fine body laid prone on the bed of the room she held in horror, the white rigid face whose good looks had changed to something she could not bear to remember, had no pathos which was not concerned with the fact that Robert had amazingly and unnaturally failed her by dying and leaving her nothing but unpaid bills.
Influenced by what good genius, or by what prescient timidity, it may be difficult to discover, he was true to the British interest, and remained obstinately deaf to the seductive animosity of the Sikh council, which was prone to take advantage of the disasters in Caubul, and to attack the avenging army of Sir George Pollock in its passage to Peshawer.
She parted the screen of shrubbery growing from the prone trunks and peered forward.
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