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If Bucklaw had but met him without this rough, bloodless irony, he might have thrown himself with ardour into the work of the expedition; but he stood alone, and hatred and war rioted in him. Below in the cabin Phips and Bucklaw were deep in the chart of the harbour and the river. The plan of action was decided upon.
It was in the streets, the shops, the offices, the alleys and in the air overhead the wail half shout. No noise could drown it. It swung and pitched and rioted through the air. And there was the fellow who wrote the music down for McGregor. He was the real thing and he bore the marks of the shackles on his legs.
The Duke of Guise, though he secretly guided all these movements, remained in his palace, affecting to have no share in the occurrences. Night came. Confusion and tumult rioted in the city. The insurgent populace, intoxicated and maddened, swarmed around the walls of the palace, and the king was besieged.
Could there conceivably be a more conclusive demonstration of the imbecility of the system of private enterprise as a method for enriching a nation than the fact that, in an age of such general poverty and want of everything, capitalists had to throttle one another to find a safe chance to invest their capital and workmen rioted and burned because they could find no work to do? "Now, Mr.
As Jim swung from the saddle, a slim figure in white glided from the shadow of the wild cucumber vines that rioted over one end of the porch. "Well, Jim?" The man came to the point with characteristic directness. "He has been waylaid, Phyl. We found his hat and the place where they ambushed him." "Is he " Her voice died at the word, but her meaning was clear. "I don't think it.
Suddenly she dashed to the chair on which the litter of linings and tissue-paper lay. She caught up a double handful and crammed them on the fire. They caught and flared. There was a call upon the stairs, and the sound of somebody mounting in haste. "Once once only my name!" The soul of the Bacchante rioted, struggled to escape from her eyes.
Not far from the circus, under a wooden tent, a half score of monsters were whirling round and round in mad rivalry fishes with enormous mouths and mighty fins, like the terrible "Orco" of Ariosto; wild steeds whose legs blossomed out into acanthus-leaves, like the old grotesques that lurk under the ferns about the basins of the village fountains; great mysterious birds, with big eyes, and golden chains about their necks; beasts with the heads of cats and the bodies of dogs, as monstrous and fantastic a crew, full of high-colored, confused images, as ever rioted in the high-strung brain of some old cinque-cento poet.
Will Your Highness preside and judge between us? answered Demi, as a lull at once took place; for no one rioted in the presence of the Princess. 'I'm not wise enough. I'll sit here and listen. Please go on. And Bess took her place above them all as cool and calm as a little statue of Justice, with fan and nosegay in place of sword and scales.
But such is the rashness born of success and a bounding heart, that young blood leaps to its doom, smiling, as it were, on the faithless lady's back. Jimmy had no forebodings, but rioted gorgeously in returning health, in a whole pack of new emotions, and in what he supposed to be his lady's favor.
Most of these good things were returned in kind, the Genoese meeting the courtesies like a man accustomed to be the object of peculiar attentions, and possibly like one who rather rioted in the impunity from ceremonies and public observation, that he now happened to enjoy. Adelheid, with a maiden of the house of Blonay, closed the little train.
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