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What did Canada care about what was considered the proper policy in London, when here at their very door necessity pressed hard on their heels, and the noise of war from across the border sounded a shrill Mene Tekel in the white man's ear? There were therefore no less than one hundred and seventy thousand Japanese soldiers on American soil on Tuesday morning, May ninth.
First there were texts written by invisible hands on city walls, on the signposts and cross-roads, on the crosses in the cemeteries: these warnings, like the 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin' of Belshazzar, even pursued the persecutors into the midst of their feasts and orgies. Now it was the threat, "Jesus came not to send peace, but a sword."
Or "Arthur, I've a looker's boy coming from Abbot's Court you might go there for his characters, I haven't time, with the butter-making to-day and Mene Tekel such an owl."
She had read between the lines of the man's story and had seen there the moving finger writing above the name of Isabel Souders, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin." When Martin Landis entered the bank early in the afternoon of that same day he presented a different appearance from that of his departure in the morning.
Stanek and Korosec in the name of all Czechs and Yugoslavs in favour of a Czecho-Slovak and Yugoslav State, the speech of deputy Kalina denying all responsibility of the Czechs for the war, and expressing Czech sympathies with the Entente Powers, and the terrible story of persecutions which the Czechs had to suffer from Austria during the war, told by deputy Stribrny, formed a veritable "Mene Tekel," a death sentence pronounced by the Austrian Slavs on their tyrants in Vienna and Budapest.
Furnese?" "No, thank you, Miss Godden much obliged all the same. I've my man's tea to get, and these fowls to see to." She felt that the sisters would want to be alone. Joanna would tell Ellen all about her failure, and Mene Tekel and Nan would overhear as much as they could, and tell Broadhurst and Crouch and the other men, who would tell the Woolpack bar, where Mr.
If we can make that somebody realise his delinquencies, all the better, for the responsibility will not be ours. If we cannot, why, the case is clear enough and simple enough in my mind. We certainly do not want "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" written over this, of all doors. Rhoda's hand went up to an imaginary cap in a gesture of military obedience. 'Very well, my general.
The highest state of prosperity is reached that the ancient world knew, and all bow down to Caesar and behold in him the representative of divine providence, from whose will there is no appeal, and from whose arm it is impossible to fly. But mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, is written on the walls of the banqueting chambers of the palace of the Caesars.
But his voice, instead of reassuring, increased the general uneasiness, for it trembled. "I don't suppose that that Mene, Tekel, Phares, means that we're to be assassinated tonight?" speculated Don Custodio. All remained motionless, but when he added, "Yet they might poison us," they leaped up from their chairs. The light, meanwhile, had begun slowly to fade.
"Where are you taking me?" asked her sister, pausing with her hand on the door-knob of Joanna's bedroom. "Never you mind come on." Would Mene Tekel, she wondered, have remembered to set the lamps, so that the room should not depend on the faint gutter of sunset to display its glories?
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