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Britannic Majesty, I know not at what date, but before the launching of that poor Braddock thunder-bolt, much more after the tragic explosion it made, had felt that French War was nearly inevitable, and also that the French method would be, as heretofore, to attack Hanover, and wound him in that tender part.
He chuckled gleefully over this thunder-bolt of wit, and bethought himself to add, "How's your chickens coming on?" "Why, it isn't time for them to hatch for ten days yet. The old hen has broken three of the eggs. Don't you think that is pretty clumsy?" "Clumsy, if it ain't worse. You'd better keep an eye on her. Sometimes they break their eggs a-purpose just to eat 'em."
He had been a chief mover in the conspiracy, and the empress gave him a present of a hundred thousand roubles and an order to leave Russia immediately." I heard afterwards that this Audar bought an estate in Piedmont on which he built a fine mansion. In two or three years it was struck by a thunder-bolt, and the unfortunate man was killed in the ruins of his own house.
Thou art that Visakha who took his rise from the body of the celestial generalissimo when Indra hurled his thunder-bolt at him. Thou art conversant with the sixty tattwas or heads of enquiry in the universe. Thou art infinite. Thou art the stupefier of Daitya ranks in the field of battle.
Meantime Barneveld sat closely guarded in the apartments of the Stadholder, while the country and very soon all Europe were ringing with the news of his downfall, imprisonment, and disgrace. The news was a thunder-bolt to the lovers of religious liberty, a ray of dazzling sunlight after a storm to the orthodox. The showers of pamphlets, villanous lampoons, and libels began afresh.
"Madri's son, Sahadeva, was speaking thus, when Bhimasena made his appearance, with a mace in his hand, like unto Vasava himself wielding the thunder-bolt.
Brewster who nodded for him to go. She calmly took the ladle and continued stirring the soup that the Indian had been attending to, then Mike hurried after Simms. "There now I know it is something serious and it is much better for me to know what may happen than to have it come upon me like a thunder-bolt," said Polly.
I made an attempt one morning, the last of my sojourn among the Delectable Mountains, when the opposing elements had left the table prematurely to make arrangements for departure, and startled the waiter by ordering an unlimited supply of corn-cake. Like a thunder-bolt fell on my ear the terrible answer: "There isn't any this morning. It is brown bread." Me miserable!
"Go!" she cried, quivering with rage; "leave this house instantly, or I will call the servants to put you into the street? It's such girls as you that ruin young men!" "Mother," interrupted Hubert, "Jessie Bain must not be sent from this house. If she leaves, I shall go with her!" A thunder-bolt falling from a clear sky could not have startled the proud Mrs.
Meantime Barneveld sat closely guarded in the apartments of the Stadholder, while the country and very soon all Europe were ringing with the news of his downfall, imprisonment, and disgrace. The news was a thunder-bolt to the lovers of religious liberty, a ray of dazzling sunlight after a storm to the orthodox. The showers of pamphlets, villanous lampoons, and libels began afresh.
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