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Updated: May 3, 2025
Shall he be born where life runs like a brook, Pleasant and placid as of old it ran, Far from the sound and shock of mighty deeds, Among soft English meads? Or shall he first my pictured volume scan Where London lifts its hot and fevered brow For cooling night to fan?"
We had our own excursions too, to the Barnwell plantations, with their beautiful avenues and great live-oaks, the perfection of Southern beauty, to Hall's Island, debatable ground, close under the enemy's fire, where half-wild cattle were to be shot, under military precautions, like Scottish moss-trooping, or to the ferry, where it was fascinating to the female mind to scan the Rebel pickets through a field-glass.
Still no man on the whole could scan the present or forecast the future more accurately than he was able to do from his advantageous position and his long experience of affairs.
It's what he wrote after ain o' his tumbles, I'm thinkin' that I was goin' to tell ye: 'Then gently scan yer brother man, Still gentler sister woman, Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human' the doctrine o' Charity. Gie him his chance, says Robbie, though he be a sinner. Mony a mon'd be differ', mony bad'd be gude, gin they had but their chance.
He was on the point of leaving the bridge, since he could not get another view of that strange little flyspeck on the ocean and decided it was an allusion, when it occurred to him that for reasons of general security he had better scan the entire circle of the horizon. This time he looked backwards.
Tretherick was wont to scan the advertisements in the faint hope of finding some avenue of employment she knew not what open to her needs; and Carry had noted this habit. Mrs. Tretherick mechanically closed the shutters, lit the lights, and opened the paper. Her eye fell instinctively on the following paragraph in the telegraphic column: "FIDDLETOWN, 7th. Mr.
She had not looked at Dick as she talked, but had her eyes fixed on the paper, though not seeming to scan its contents. The room was crowded with men and filled with a confused volume of sound as she spoke, the click and whir of the wheel, the monotonous voice of the student turned gambler calling "Single O and the house wins.
The Skimmer glanced his eye about him, on regaining the poop, and appeared to scan the amount and quality of the physical force that was still at their disposal. He saw that the Alderman, the faithful François, and two of his own seamen, with four of the petty officers of the ship, remained. The six latter, even in that moment of desperation, had calmly refused to desert their officers.
She beheld, as it were, the elements of his being, the very sources of the ceaseless, restless energy that was driving him on. And scan as she would, no traces of the vaunted illimitable power that is called love could she discern. Love he possessed; that she had not doubted, and did not doubt, even now.
There was now to be met the first issue in the new field. He plunged into his task. Then the professor: "Well, yes, you have caught my idea. How write upon the board: 'This is the forest primeval, and a dozen lines or so following, from this slip. Scan that for me; parse it; show me the relations of words and clauses, and all that sort of thing."
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