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She had gathered together some few pieces of her old furniture, which half filled one fine room, and here she lived. There was a tall, handsome chest of drawers, which I should have liked much to ransack.
"The sabre is law here," said the lieutenant in command. "It is the only law known anywhere in this kingdom," said Don Silverio. "Arrest him," said the officer. "He is creating disorder." The carabineers drove him into his study, and a brigadier began to ransack his papers and drawers.
It was dark, and I had the devil of a hunt after matches, which I found at last in the drawer of the little cash desk. Then I had to get a candle. I had to tear down wrappings and ransack a number of boxes and drawers, but at last I managed to turn out what I sought; the box label called them lambswool pants, and lambswool vests.
"We must ransack the earth," cried Socrates, "until we find that boat. I'm dry as a fish." "There he goes again!" growled Murray. "Dry as a fish! What fish, I'd like to know, is dry?" "Red herrings," retorted Socrates; and there was a great laugh at the expense of the purist, in which even Hamlet, who had grown more and more melancholy and morbid since the abduction of Ophelia, joined.
If it is possible to connect a woman with the devoutest of their anticipations, the sons of leisure up there will do it. But, in truth, an English world was having cause to ransack the dust-heaps for neglected men of mettle. Our intermittent ague, known as dread of invasion, was over the land.
The interest they excite is of all grades, from that which looks upon them as items of millinery, up to that of the makers of ornithological systems, who ransack the world for specimens, and who have no doubt that the chief end of a bird is to be named and catalogued, the more synonyms the better.
No doubt she had carried off with her this secret plan of mobilisation but if the plan got lost? If it were dropped in the street! Brocq cursed his untidy ways once more. He would never forgive himself for having allowed that girl to ransack his drawers but he must act, and at once! He must, without fail, find that mislaid document. Of one thing he was sure the document was not on the premises.
Rogero, rid of their annoyances, left them in their trance, and rode away. Meanwhile Alcina, with all the force she could muster, sallied forth from her palace in pursuit. Melissa, left behind, took advantage of the opportunity to ransack all the rooms, protected by the ring.
Then came the Jews who captured the town after a long struggle and made it the residence of their King David. Solomon, the Wise, decided to provide them with a magnificent home. Far and wide his messengers travelled to ransack the world for rare woods and precious metals. The entire nation was asked to offer its wealth to make the House of God worthy of its holy name.
A great man does not wake up on some fine morning, and say, "I am full of life, I will go to sea, and find an Antarctic continent: to-day I will square the circle: I will ransack botany, and find a new food for man: I have a new architecture in my mind: I foresee a new mechanic power;" no, but he finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.
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