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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Holding a candle?" "An' saying 'I'm a miserable Beast'?" Octavian agreed to both suggestions. "For a long, long time?" "For half an hour," said Octavian. There was an anxious ring in his voice as he named the time-limit; was there not the precedent of a German king who did open-air penance for several days and nights at Christmas- time clad only in his shirt?
'Didn't know this was to be a dinner with speeches, murmured the financier, after a few minutes, in his neighbour's ear. 'Think I'll get up and propose a vote of thanks to the chairman. 'There ought, at least, to be a time-limit, said the neighbour, with a shrug. 'Where on earth did Findon pick him up?
When ten years of age James Hill contracted to build a mile of corduroy road, between his father's farm and the village. For this labor his father promised him a two-year-old colt. The boy built the road all right. It took him six months, but the grades were easy and the curves so-so. The Tom Sawyer plan came in handy, otherwise it is probable there would have been a default on the time-limit.
Petitions began to pour in for mercy or at least for an extension to the time-limit, but though on the latter point some concessions were made, few individuals were allowed any reprieve. The landowners were marked men, and they were obliged to go.
Swayed by the harsh and emphatic tone of the imperial resolution, the Senate decided to interpret the new order in the sense of a complete and absolute expulsion. This interpretation received the Tzar's approbation, except that the time-limit for the expulsion of real estate owners was extended for two years more and the ruined exiles were promised temporary relief from taxation.
How grandly he towered above them in his great strength and superb physique, a very prince of prowess, the type of leader in a land where the battle is always to the strong. And no shot of our men was able to reach him until our finish seemed certain, and the time-limit closing in. But down in the thick weeds, under a flimsy rampart of soft sand, crouched a slender fair-haired boy.
"I wonder how long the interval is," I said. "I suppose spying is a sort of job you can't fix an exact time-limit to." Tommy looked at his watch again. "It's just on a quarter to ten now. He told me not to wait after half-past." I stuffed down the baccy with my thumb, and felt in my pocket for a match. "It seems to me " I began. The interesting remark I was about to make was never uttered.
No, not twenty-four minutes!" He ran the back of his hand across his moist forehead, and sat staring out of the window as though he had forgotten Conniston's presence. "What sort of a time-limit? I thought that Mr. Crawford was alone in this thing, that he had the rest of his lifetime to finish it in if he wanted to take that long." Garton snorted.
While I was engaged in framing an answer to this, and before the time-limit set by him had expired, he sent his galleys and small boats to attack the defenses and the people who were stationed on the shore.
A thousand miles on horseback, "on me Pat Malone," into the Australian interior and out again, travelling twice over three long dry stages and several shorter ones, and keeping strictly within the Government time-limit, would be a life-experience to the men who set that limit if it wasn't a death-experience. "Like to see one of 'em doing it 'emselves," says the Fizzer.
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