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These are well though briefly stated in the excellent article on Elocution in Rees' Cyclopædia, to which it will be sufficient to refer, as worthy attentive perusal. The question at large I cannot undertake to discuss. If I should, I could hardly hope to satisfy either others or myself.
'I will give you, he said, 'twenty Rees and Gros Ventres to escort you past the hostile camp. We set out very early and rode all day, so that night overtook us just before we reached the camp. "At nightfall we sent two scouts ahead, but before they left us they took the oath of the pipe in token of their loyalty. You all know the ancient war custom.
This disease appears to have travelled up the Missouri River; and in the early years, between 1840 and 1850, it swept away hosts of Mandans, Rees, Sioux, Crows, and other tribes camped along the great river.
On the forward bridge of the Olympia stood Commodore Dewey, his chief of staff, Commander Lamberton, Lieutenant Rees, Lieutenant Calkins, and an insurgent Filippino, who had volunteered as pilot.
He also gave him a perpetual pension or rent-charge of 300,000 rees yearly, out of the tythe fish in the village of Sinis, in which he was born, and a promise of being made lord of that village; and till these grants were executed in form, he allowed him 1000 crowns a-year; which, after the royal grants were made, reverted to the house of the Contratation of the Indies.
Spanish olea, if you please ragou royal, cardoons, tendrons, shellfish in marinade, ruffs and rees, wheat-ears, green morels, fat livers, combs and notts. 'Tis rather odd, Sir, to us who employ them, to learn that our tailors, while we're eating the dinners we do our tailors, Sir, are absolutely gorging themselves with such things with our money, by Jove!
'Sir Thomas Fairfax arrived two days agone, answered mistress Rees. 'Alas, it is but too sure a sign that for Raglan the end is near! 'Good morrow, mother Rees, said Richard, looking in at the door, radiant as an Apollo. The same moment out came Scudamore from the closet, pale as a dying moon. 'I want my horse, Heywood! he cried, deigning no preliminaries.
"Owen, old man, have you heard anything about Miss Rees lately?" "Heard anything?" He laid down his pipe and stared at his questioner. "Why should I hear anything? What is there to hear?" Before replying Barry rose, and stood leaning against the mantelpiece; and as he looked down on his friend his heart was wrung within him at the cruelty of fate. "You ... you've not seen her name in the papers?"
Once inside those walls of stone, those gates of oak, and those portcullises of iron, and thou comes not out alive again, I warrant thee. 'I should like to try once, though, said Richard. 'Couldst thou not disguise me, mother Rees, and send me with a message to thy son? 'I tell thee, young master, I dare not, answered the old woman, with utmost solemnity.
After the inquest the coroner turned the personal effects of Rees over to me. They consisted of a gold watch and two hundred and ninety dollars in a money belt. I hold these subject to instructions from the widow. The body was prepared for burial by wrapping it in white according to Mormon custom.
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