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Gray-haired I return, sadly scotched in many a conflict with the world, yet ever thy boy, thy home mine. Ah me! Heaven is nearer to us than we often dream on earth. How shall I tell you of the old town by the North Sea that was the home of the Danish kings in the days when kings led their armies afield and held their crowns by the strength of their grip?
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed, if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain. But orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought.
The meadow shimmered. No part of the horizon was in sight only the sky overhanging the little open of grass, and this was cloudless, though far from blue. Perhaps there was not a real sign of uneasiness anywhere except in my boat; yet I felt something ominous in this silent, stifled noon. After all, I ought to have scotched the rusty, red-bellied water-snake leering at me now.
With these, and his immense popularity personally, he scotched, for a time, the Puritan snake; but, true to its instincts, it struggled to bite, though its head was off. Mr.
The Dreyfus case was the most striking act in the great drama. But it was not the concluding one. French militarism, in that affair, was scotched but not killed, and the contest was never fiercer than in the years immediately preceding the war. The fighters for peace were the Socialists, under their leader, Jaurès, the one great man in the public life of Europe.
'Tis a pack of paupers I'm discoorsin', God help me." The Armagh shopkeepers are prosperous and content. "No Home Rule," they say. They are no longer angry with the Nationalists. The snake is scotched, if not killed outright, they think. The whole absurdity has received such a damning exposure that it cannot be revived for another generation.
And he stood opposite the young fellow, on tiptoe, quivering with impatience. David put both hands in his pockets, and looked out upon them, radiant. 'I think, he said slowly, 'I've scotched old Purcell this time. But perhaps you don't know what he's been after? 'Lucy was in here last night, said Dora, hesitating; 'she told me about it. 'Lucy! cried Daddy, exasperated.
Nor was the gentle and melancholy Una herself, now that the snake was at all events scotched, averse to show herself among them for so they would have it.
The minister they propose is a most mischievous person, I have no intention whatever of extending his influence." He himself would have made the Baptists happy with a half an acre, long since, and so, in his belief, scotched a hornet's nest. But he had never breathed any suggestion of the kind to Lady Coryston.
'I shouldn't have cut her, or scotched her, or lopped her. When he had read the whole letter patiently there crept upon him gradually a feeling of admiration for her, greater than he had ever yet felt, and, for awhile, he almost thought that he would renew his offer to her. "Showers instead of sunshine; melancholy instead of mirth," he repeated to himself.
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