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Her character was never spoilt by the social life she was compelled to lead. My brother-in-law, Prince Sovrani, kept open house, and all the gay world of Rome was accustomed to flock thither; but now since he has lost his wife, things have changed very much, sadness has taken the place of mirth, and Angela is very solitary." "Is she not affianced to the celebrated Florian Varillo?"

There is the obelisk of Cleopatra; there the tower of Antonine', there the Egyptian Pyramid; and there a column going up in honor of Aurelian; and in this direction, the whole outline of the palace. 'Yet are we at the same time shut out from all the world, said I. 'Your hours must fly swiftly here. But are your musings always solitary ones?

In other words, Baillie is not sure that it is fair to charge Milton's extreme opinion upon Independency as such, inasmuch as it may be the crotchet of a solitary heretic; but he is inclined to think that Milton is an Independent, and he knows at least that Mr. Gorting and other Independents have broached a milder form of the same heresy.

In one family, near Negombo, cobras are kept as protectors, in the place of dogs, by a wealthy man who has always large sums of money in his house. But this is not a solitary case of the kind. I heard of it only the other day, but from undoubtedly good authority.

The station master yawned drowsily. "Didn't notice," he answered. "What an old woman you're getting, George! Want to know everybody's business, don't you?" The porter withdrew, a little huffed. When, a few minutes later, the train drew in, he even avoided ostentatiously a journey to the far end of the platform to open the door for the solitary passenger who was standing there.

Eyewitnesses of his labors, noble enough to admire him, able enough to support him, but not strong enough to take his place, guard with loving hearts his memory and his words; the solitary staff for a race, which had the desire, but not the requisite maturity, to take into itself the entire spirit of the illustrious dead.

It seems I had a sensitive soul without ever suspecting it. And now I am afraid of Paris, as believers are bound to be afraid of Hell. I have received a blow on the head that is all a blow resembling the fall of a tile when one is passing through the street. I am getting better for some time past." I quitted my solitary. I was much disturbed by his narrative.

This young man may be orthodox on Predestination, and outwardly growing all that a Papa could wish; but here are strange heterodoxies, here is plenty of mutinous capricious fire in the interior of him, Herr General! In fact, a young man unfortunately situated; already become solitary in Creation; has not, except himself, a friend in the world available just now.

Nor is this a solitary instance of a practice that was rapidly growing to large proportions. Bligh, 16 May 1781. Admiralty Records 1. 1531 Duchess of Gordon, 14 Feb. 1804. Amongst landsmen the harvester, as a worker of vital utility to the country, enjoyed a degree of exemption accorded to few. Impress officers had particular instructions concerning him.

So disconsolate did these thoughts make him, that Perseus could not bear to tell his another what he had undertaken to do. He therefore took his shield, girded on his sword, and crossed over from the island to the mainland, where he sat down in a solitary place, and hardly refrained from shedding tears. But, while he was in this sorrowful mood, he heard a voice close beside him.