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The unscreened window from which he obediently leaned was almost directly in line with the vanity dressing-table across the room. "Look! See how them vines have been torn," Strawn directed, pointing to a rambler rose which hugged the outside frame of the window.
He stood for Ayrshire, turning back from York when the dissolution was announced. 'Our Boswell, wrote the doctor to Langton, 'is now said to stand for some place. Whether to wish him success his best friends hesitate. May found him with the Rambler for the last time.
His first impression, that he had been seen and followed, disappeared as the runner, instead of making for the pavilion, turned aside, and stopped at the door of the bicycle shed. Like Mike, he was evidently possessed of a key, for Mike heard it grate in the lock. At this point he left the pavilion and hailed his fellow rambler by night in a cautious undertone. The other appeared startled.
But Captain King absolutely refusing to discharge him in order thereto, on the ninth of November, 1725, he sailed in the aforesaid vessel for England. On the twelfth of the same month, off Dominica, they were attacked by a pirate sloop called the Night Rambler, under the command of one Cooper.
In the first number of The Rambler, Johnson shews how attractive to an author is the form of publication which he was himself then adopting: 'It heightens his alacrity to think in how many places he shall have what he is now writing read with ecstacies to-morrow. Yet he said 'the inhabitants of Lichfield were the most sober, decent people in England. Ante, ii. 463.
The Commodore was able to carry out his object even sooner than he expected, by the arrival of two other brigs, the Rambler and the Tattler. Jack and Terence were very much disappointed when they found that they were not to go.
His language is a queer mixture of geechy, sea terms and broad "a's" acquired by long association with Nassau "conchs." Married to one of these ample-waisted Bahama women, the erst-while rambler and adventurer proved that rolling stones sometimes become suitable foundations for homes he lived faithfully with the same wife for fifty-one years.
Next time be advised." "It was not Electra that harmed me." "Then you admit that you have been harmed?" "No; I am low-spirited to-night; I believe that is all." He opened the Rambler, of which she was particularly fond, and began to read. For a while she listened, and in her interest forgot her forebodings, but after a time her long silky lashes swept her cheeks, and she slept.
Upon this the pirate said they found out a way to satisfy themselves by signing for him, and this, he constantly averred, was the method of his being taken into the crew of the Night Rambler, where he insisted he did nothing but as he was commanded, received no share in the plunder, but lived wholly on the ship's allowance, being treated in all respect as one whom force and not choice had brought amongst them.
With the exception of the first word, Sir Walter Raleigh's daring praise may be accepted as strictly true. There is nothing splendid about The Rambler or The Idler. The more shining qualities of literature, except occasional eloquence, are conspicuously wanting in them.
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