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It is the military man who is foolish enough to believe anything and who keeps alive the most absurd superstitions and customs. The ancient Greeks cast a side-light on this truth, for their word for private soldier was 'idiot. And on account of this strange stupidity of soldiers, things that would be disgraceful in private life become glorious in war.
Maillot fixed a scowling look not at all relieved by his discolored eye upon the secretary, while that young man thoughtfully shook his head. "No," Burke said at length; "not certainly. I never heard Mr. If so, here, in all truth, was a surprising side-light thrown into an unsuspected recess of his character. I was to have a hint presently of what was tucked away there.
He was browned from his passage, appeared a little stouter, was very well dressed and good to look at, and fairly exuded vitality and pleasant humor. Sharlee was delighted and quite excited over seeing him again, though it may be noted, as shedding a side-light upon her character, that she did not greet him with "Hello, Stranger!"
How strong a side-light does this little incident throw upon the history of the Roman republic, and of all relatively strong communities when confronted with the problem of preserving order in neighbouring states that are too weak to preserve it for themselves!
Well, crabs, I need hardly explain in this age of enlightenment, are not fish; but their actions help to throw a side-light on the migratory instinct in salmon, eels, and so many other true fish which have changed with time their aboriginal habits.
I have something especial to say to you, too." Once out of the thick of the party, they sat down. "I have discovered something more about our amiable friend," she continued. "It is a side-light on his character something he did a year and a half ago. Do you remember his flirtation with Sybil Brandon at Saratoga and then at Newport?" "Yes, I was in Newport most of the summer."
And, speaking of the region at large, he, perhaps, throws an incidental side-light upon the Blackfoot question.
The background to these curious sittings, afterwards revealed to us, casts a hazy side-light upon them.
"It's wholesome doctrine." And he wiped his eyes with what seemed his sole remnant of linen. "Dear, dear," sighed Searle, "I've made you cry! Well, we speak as from man to man. I should be glad to think you had felt for a moment the side-light of that great undarkening of the spirit which precedes which precedes the grand illumination of death." Mr.
Reminiscences of the design for the tomb of Julius are not infrequent; and it may be remarked, as throwing a side-light upon that irrecoverable project of his earlier manhood, that the figures posed upon the various spaces of architecture differ in their scale.
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