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However, her brave young heart never failed her, but kept true to its purpose to join that noble band who left the sunshine of their homes to help build up a new South on the basis of a higher and better civilization. Louis remained with the army till Lee had surrendered. The storm-cloud of battle had passed away, and the thunders of contending batteries no longer crashed and vibrated on the air.
Wright spoke of it as a patch of blue sky breaking through the storm-cloud of public indignation which had gathered so black over the handful of anti-slavery workers. This praise was not exaggerated. The pamphlet produced the most profound sensation wherever it was read, but, as Angelina predicted, she was made to suffer for having written it.
Ever since the storm-cloud brought us the too transient shower the sky has been tolerably clear, and although at that time the wind had slightly freshened, it has since dropped, and the sail hangs idly against our mast. Except for the trifling relief it brings by modifying the tempera- ture, we care little now for any breeze.
In his own country, so far away, the Palace of the Tuileries had disappeared from his sight, swallowed up in the bosom of a storm-cloud, and he was never to see it more. Sedan seemed already to have receded into the distance, leagues and leagues, and to be parted from him by a river of blood.
"You're a fool " and then the look on her quiet face such a look as she might have worn if he had struck her penetrated the storm-cloud of his anger. He remembered her years of wifely patience and faithful service, " a foolish woman. A Sark wife should know which side of her bread the butter is on. Can't you see " "I know all that, Tom, but I hope you'll give up this notion of selling the farm.
Their Bad Faith to the Indians, and its Fatal Results. The Thirst for Gold, and how it was rewarded. Buccaneering. A Storm-cloud gathers in Spain. Misery in the Fort on the St. John's. Relieved by Sir John Hawkins. Arrival of Ribaut with Men and Supplies. Don Pedro Menendez captures Fort Caroline and massacres the Garrison and Shipwrecked Crews. Dominique de Gourgues takes Vengeance.
The storm-cloud which a few years hence was destined to break over their heads, sweeping them from their palaces to the prison and the guillotine, was only gathering very slowly in the dim horizon of squalid, starving Paris: for the next half-dozen years they would still dance and gamble, fight and flirt, surround a tottering throne, and hoodwink a weak monarch.
The long black line of cabins crouching under the hillside where the shadows were deepest, marked the quarters of the slaves, a dark storm-cloud already settling heavily on the fair horizon of the new state. Cedar House itself was the grandest of its time in all that country.
The flight of the Ithuriel and her consorts was so graduated, that as they rose to the level of the storm-cloud they missed it and passed diagonally beyond it at a sufficient distance to avoid disturbing the electrical balance between it and the earth.
He was a great dog, thirty inches high at the shoulder; broad-chested, with straight, sinewy legs; and covered with thick, wavy, cream-coloured hair from the tips of his short ears to the end of his bushy tail all except the left side of his face. That was black from ear to nose coal-black; and in the centre of this storm-cloud his eye gleamed like fire.
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