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"A leak!" cried the captain. "Yes, this locker is half full of water, and all the stuff in it is soaked." It was true enough. The salt water had come in through some opening of the seams of the previously tight compartment and had done much damage. The victuals were only fit to throw overboard. "Half rations from now on," said the captain sternly. "Half rations!" repeated Mr. Tarbill.
Arithmetic and what was termed the "tonic sofa" had been more sternly inculcated than the moral virtues at the Board School in Kentish Town. And she was not long in making up her mind that she would not tell him not just yet, anyway. What was he saying, in the Cockney that cut like a knife through the thick gutturals of the Taal?
It was my father's voice I heard, coming sternly from where he sat upright in his chair. "He will not come back here. He left this house of his own free will, left it in treachery and deceit. He has cast its dust from off his feet, and this is his home no more." My heart sank within me at these bitter words. But Patience pleaded for me still.
An unearthly stillness prevailed, for at the slightest noise the judge uttered sternly the command: "Order in the Court!" And the sheriffs promptly echoed it.
"Is that so, Mister District Attorney?" "I don't know," replied Pepperill faintly. "I had nothing to do with the proceedings before the Grand Jury." Judge Wetherell frowned. "It would seem to me," he began, "as if a proper preparation of the case would have involved some slight attention to Well, never mind! Proceed, Mr. Tutt." "Kahoots!" cried the lawyer sternly.
Nancy's eye, however, neither avoided his nor quailed before it. She now spoke the truth, and she did so, in order to prevent herself and the other servants from incurring his resentment by their silence. "Very well," observed Sir Thomas, calmly, but sternly. "I think you have spoken what you believe to be the truth, and what, for all you know, may be the truth.
"You are warned," said the communicator sternly, "that any deceit or deception about your identity or purpose in landing will be severely punished. We take few chances, here! If you wish to land notwithstanding this warning " "I'm coming in," said Calhoun. "Give me the coordinates." He wrote them down. His expression was slightly pained. The Med Ship drove on, in solar system drive.
Jake Hoover, who, after having done all sorts of dirty work for Holmes and his fellow-conspirators, had told Bessie that he was sorry and was going to change sides! "Jake!" said Bessie, sternly. "You miserable sneak! What are you doing here!" No wonder poor Zara had had that feeling of being watched.
She is only sleeping. And yet you put her in the grave." "She is dead!" he cried, in mingled fear and anger "and she must be buried." "She is not dead," said I, sternly, as I glared on him out of my intensity of anguish "she is not dead: and if you try to send her to death again you must first send me.
Surely it is paying a poor tribute to the valor and devotion of our revolutionary fathers in the cause of liberty, to say that, if they had sternly refused to sacrifice their principles, they would have fallen an easy prey to the despotic power of England. II. The American Constitution is the exponent of the national compact.
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