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We now turn into the Mesaa, the straightest and longest street in Mekka, and one of the best built. It receives its name from the ceremony of the Say, which is performed in it, and which I have already described: from this circumstance, and its being full of shops, it is the most noisy and most frequented part of the town.
Mail was handled by postal experts from home in such manner as sent millions of letters by the straightest course to every point in the United States, from the great cities down to the smallest hamlet. American soldiers in the fighting lines were furnished with tubes of medicinal paste to cure mustard gas burns.
He had served in the recent war with Mexico; he had never given a vote or written a sentence that the straightest Southern Democrat could wish to blot; and he was identified with the slave-power, having denounced its enemies as the enemies of the Constitution.
Now I hate to ask direct questions especially in a situation like this where I wished particularly to be tactful, and of course she would be thrust into an awkward position in case she should dislike to reply. So I sat down and looked around and said, "How prettily you have arranged your room!" The freshman had seated herself on the edge of her straightest chair.
After that, if the yacht turns aside or comes back for a package that some one has left, or does anything but hold the straightest course on the compass for the blue and open sea well, she'll be about the foolishest craft that ever ploughed salt water." "I suppose so," admitted Carroll. "Well, I have matters to look after on board." Into Mr. Carroll's cabin it is nobody's business to follow him.
For I would rather know that you love me than be the straightest, brightest, loveliest woman in the world! I would rather be here in your arms so " and she nestled close against him "than have all the riches that were ever counted! and listen, John!"
The evening of the occasion saw not only a numerous assemblage, but one in which the highest grades of society were fully represented. As it was not strictly a ball, there was not the least impropriety in the straightest church-members and they were strict, then attending it; and they did. The sleighing was fine, and, as the usage was, the guests came early, and went early the next morning.
When we had succeeded, at Kobe, in convincing the authorities that none of the passengers on the China had picked up the plague at Hongkong, we put out into the big sea, and shaped our course for the fairer land so far away, not exactly a straight line, for the convexity of the earth that includes the water, for the ocean particularly the Pacific is rounded so that the straightest line over its surface is a curved line, if astronomically mentioned.
But, her glance travelled upward, how unusually dark he was, and his hair, yes, without question, the straightest and blackest she had ever seen. Yet it seemed in some indefinable way to become him, to belong, as it were, to his type. Leaning her elbows meditatively upon the rusty anchor, her chin in her hands, she silently appraised him.
The monastery was of the best and straightest teak, and must, he thought, have taken a very long time and a great deal of labour to build, for the teak must have been brought from very far away; and in explanation he was told a curious story.
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