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These classical pedagogues, however, carry the thing up to three or four and twenty in the Universities though it is inconceivable that any language spoken since the antediluvian age of leisure, can need more than ten years to learn and if they could keep the men until forty or fifty they would still be fumbling away at the keys to the room that was ransacked long ago.
The securing them was easy enough, for on that particular evening Arthur and Dig were roosting on the big arch of Wellham Abbey, in no condition to interfere if all their worldly goods had been ransacked. The remainder the reader knows. That eventful evening was to witness one more solemnity before the order for "lights out" cut short its brief career.
Petersburg and the neighboring villages was dissected, plank by plank, and its foundations dug up and ransacked for hidden treasure and not by boys, but men pretty grave, unromantic men, too, some of them. Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted, admired, stared at.
The anchor was weighed, and the wind being fair, the ship was soon out of sight of the land Mazin's mother early in the morning returning to her house found the door open, her son missing, and the rooms ransacked of all her valuables.
The phrase, "that the Scripture might be fulfilled," is usually connected with the words, "I thirst," as if the meaning were that He had said this fifth word in fulfilment of some prediction that He would do so; and the Old Testament is ransacked, without much result, for the prophetic words which may be supposed to be alluded to.
This called them to order at once; and in a few minutes the camp was as orderly and quiet as usual: the fires were replenished; the scanty stores were being overhauled; the place was selected, and being got ready to roll the guns over the cliff; the camp was being ransacked for such articles as could be carried, and all preparations were being hastily made for their march.
He scorned a dedication, that misnomer for gratuitous advertising. He wanted no patron, no Lord or Count somebody or other, who might, perhaps, insure the sale of one more copy. No. He determined to paddle his own canoe. And he did, you bet. He wrote no preface. What was it to the public how many ancient authors he had ransacked to obtain ideas for his poem?
At a time when chivalry excited universal admiration, and when all the efforts of that chivalry were directed against the enemies of religion, it was natural that literature should receive the same impulse, and that history and fable should be ransacked to furnish examples of courage and piety that might excite increased emulation.
Murphy, murdered Protestants in Smithfield; because Louis XIV. dragooned his Protestant subjects, when the predecessor of Murphy's predecessor was not in being; because men are confined in prison, in Madrid, twelve degrees more south than Murphy has ever been in his life; all ages, all climates, are ransacked to perpetuate the slavery of Murphy, the ill-fated victim of political anachronisms.
By the time he got across the square, no foe was to be seen, and after looking round the corner to ascertain that they had not reassembled, he marched back his men in triumph. In a short time every house had been ransacked, and, with our booty and prisoners, we returned to the boats and regained the ship, not a shot having been fired nor a life lost.
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