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Ridgeway has an illustrative argument with some one, who says: "The dress and weapons of the Saxons given in the lay of Beowulf fitted exactly the bronze weapons in England, for they had shields, and spears, and battle-axes, and swords." Now, if the supposed controversialist were a Homeric critic, he would not admit any difficulty.
The captain of their largest boat had died suddenly, and they wanted a message taken to another captain who lived about fourteen miles from Ridgeway station on the railroad. This captain had retired, taken up some lumber land, and had cleared part of it. Edison was offered $15 by Mr.
The village of Ridgeway is on the line of the Grand Trunk Railway, which connects it with Port Colborne on Lake Erie on the one side, and Fort Erie on the same lake, at the mouth of the Niagara River, on the other. It is situated about eleven miles from the former place, and something like eight from the latter; leaving the extreme points distant from each other about nineteen miles.
A glad cry arose from below, and he saw her coming rapidly from the small boulders near the water, some distance to the left. He hurried to meet her. "Oh, I thought you had left me to die up there," she gasped as they drew near to each other. "Mr. Ridgeway Hugh, I am so glad you have come." "You were asleep when I came back an hour ago. See? I have found water. Drink!"
The greatest chiefs, men said to be rich in gold and iron, always use swords and spears of bronze in Iliad and Odyssey. The usual process of transition from bronze to iron swords, in a prehistoric European age, is traced by Mr. Ridgeway at Hallstatt, "in the heart of the Austrian Alps," where a thousand old graves have been explored.
As he had watched his sister coming toward him, with Ridgeway Jordan beside her looking into her face with that look of eager hopefulness, he had experienced a powerful longing to go out and lead Ridge away to some secluded spot and explain to him that he wasn't good enough. It wasn't as if there were anything against young Jordan; there was certainly nothing specific.
While that part of Sherman's Army was crossing Broad River at Alston and Freshley's, and the other near Ridgeway, General Hampton wrote General Beauregard to concentrate all his forces at or near the latter place by shipping Hardee and all forces under him at once by railroad Stephenson's Division of Western men, now with Hampton and all the cavalry to fall upon the Fifteenth Corps, under Blair, and crush it before the other portions of the army could reach it.
Turned round and found him standing right to my back this morning. Could have stuck a knife into me easy. "Look here!" says I, and fetched him a tap on the ear that will make him walk louder next time, I warrant. He could have stuck a knife into me easy. "A clear case of moral funk, I should say. Can you imagine the fellow, Ridgeway " "Yes; oh, yes." I was ready with a phrase of my own.
It will make it easier for me to get along with her, for it will help me to make allowances for lots of things." The door stood ajar, and catching sight of Jane Ridgeway coming up the hall, Mary started to meet her. "Remember," called Cornie after her. "We've taken you under our wing, and claim you for our sorority.
It was to bind them irrevocably to Nedra, closing forever to them the chance of returning to the civilization they had known and were relinquishing. Ridgeway daily inventoried his rapidly increasing stock of war implements, proud of the prowess that had made him a war-god.
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