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Jake was more desperately bent upon revenge than Sam supposed, and from the hour of going into camp he diligently worked over his plan for accomplishing his purpose. He had learned by previous failures, to dread Sam's quickness of perception, of which, indeed, he stood almost superstitiously in awe.
In fact, at moments I am so happy that I superstitiously pull myself up and remind myself of my creditors, who will one day drive me out of the Australia I have so happily won.... MELIHOVO, March 19, 1892. I have read your story "On the Road."
Now when they were taken, had before the Prince, and examined, he found them to be of three several counties, though they all came out of one land. One sort of them came out of Blind-man-shire, and they were such as did ignorantly what they did. Another sort of them came out of Blind-zeal-shire, and they did superstitiously what they did.
Doubtless, he went on, she had superstitiously regarded the cup as exercising a Satanic influence on the mind of her master; but even if she confessed it now, he must make an example of one whose fanaticism would set wrong right after the notions of an illiterate sect, and not according to the laws of the land. He just send the case to be tried by a jury!
He was lamented by the whole army, by many superstitiously, even, who said he had gone through all Walker's hard stresses so far untouched, and his end was prophetic of downfall. And it is even true, that from this battle General Walker's prospects clouded rapidly.
Answers to such questions as these were not forthcoming either from Professor Mira-Khabur or any other sagacious pundit, and Theos was therefore still most illogically and unscientifically puzzled as well as superstitiously uneasy.
It declares that the democracy has a machinery in a nationalized organization, and a practical guide in the national interest, which are adequate to the realization of the democratic ideal; and it declares also that in the long run just in so far as Americans timidly or superstitiously refuse to accept their national opportunity and responsibility, they will not deserve the names either of freemen or of loyal democrats.
He had been met in the three cases the only ones he at all compared with his present case by the frank confession that he didn't somehow, charming as he was, cause himself to be superstitiously believed in; and the lapse of life, afterward, had cleared up many doubts.
Few, if any of them, had even the power necessary to hypnotise an ordinarily strong man in health. She, on the contrary, had never failed in that, and at the first trial, except with Keyork Arabian, a man of whom she said in her heart, half in jest and half superstitiously, that he was not a man at all, but a devil or a monster over whom earthly influences had no control. All her energy returned.
The peaks around shut it out from all view of the world; a single decayed tree leaned over it from a mossy rock, which gave the whole scene an air of the most desolate wildness. I forget the name of the lake; but we learned afterwards that the Highlanders consider it the abode of the fairies, or "men of peace," and that it is still superstitiously shunned by them after nightfall.
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