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Updated: May 16, 2025
So the next day after the funeral, along about noon-time, the girls' joy got the first jolt. A couple of nigger traders come along, and the king sold them the niggers reasonable, for three-day drafts as they called it, and away they went, the two sons up the river to Memphis, and their mother down the river to Orleans.
He met an Indian he knew an Indian who, for two or three good reasons that stuck in the back of his head, dared not lie to him; and this tribesman, coming straight from the Thoreau cabin, told him that Jan was not at home, but had gone on a three-day trip to see the French missioner who lived on one of the lower Wholdaia waterways. Blake was keen on strategem.
"I'll hear to-day; but meantime you might give me a three-day option on the vessel, in case of unavoidable delays though I'll do my best to close the matter up at once." Hudner considered. The Unicorn had paid his company but two dividends since her purchase from Cappy Ricks, while it was common talk on 'Change that the Lion had paid for herself prior to the 1907 panic.
Then, if you should hear some time that he has ended the struggle with pistol, rope, or poison, thus decreasing the income of yourself and your partner, the dram-seller, you can console yourself with pious reflections on the mysterious ways of Providence. At this time pickets were only changed every third day, "three-day picket," we called it.
It was late in the afternoon when she reached Lamo; and she had gone directly to the Eating-House, where she had passed another restless night spending most of her time sitting at the window, where she was at this minute. Of course it was a three-day trip to Pardo, and she had no reason to expect Morgan to return until the end of the sixth day, at the very earliest.
Staring through his peep-hole, George distinguished only a seethe of whirling flakes that greyed the view, blotting even the neighbouring huts, and when the early evening brought a rising note in the storm the trouble lifted from his face. "A three-day blizzard," he rejoiced, "and the strongest team on the coast can't wallow through it under a week. These on-shore gales is beauts."
The campaign closed at Mine Run, where Lee repulsed Meade's attempted surprise in a three-day action, which began on the twenty-sixth of November, the morrow of Grant's three days at Chattanooga. From this time forward the South was like a beleaguered city, certain to fall if not relieved, unless, indeed, the hearts of those who swayed the Northern vote should fail them at the next election.
I underwent pangs such as had not been mine since away back yonder in August of 1914, in the time of the sack of Belgium, when the Germans locked up five of us for a day and a night in a cow stable where no self-respecting cow would voluntarily have stayed, and, then sent us by train under guard on a three-day journey into Germany, yet all the while kept right on telling us we were not prisoners but guests of the German Army.
As a consequence, we have a three-day vacation and instead of having the side stairs torn down I'm in line for a chunk of insurance." "Even the tea isn't spilled from my caddy," Mary answered; "Look." "Wonder what they used this side stairway for? It was rickety when I bought the place." He looked at the blackened remains of steps. "I don't know," Mary answered, absent-mindedly.
It was during that struggle, it will be remembered, that King William finally defeated James II and the latter's French and Irish allies in the battle of the Boyne . It was also during that struggle that the French navy, though successful against combined Dutch and English squadrons off Beachy Head , was decisively beaten by the English in a three-day battle near La Hogue .
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