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"A boomerang has come back and mowed us flatter than an oven door in tophet." In the rout, in the retreat horse, foot and dragoons crisp orders were issued and obeyed. The friends of Governor Harwood had only one resource it was to save that gentleman's face. His nomination was withdrawn.
You and I have been great strangers, hitherto; nor, to confess the truth, will my nose be anxious for a closer intimacy, till the fumes of your breath be a little less potent. Mercy on you, man! the water absolutely hisses down your red-hot gullet, and is converted quite to steam, in the miniature tophet, which you mistake for a stomach.
Philosophic latitudinarianism had long ago cured him of the Rabbinical notion of the Babylonian conqueror as an incarnate fiend, devoted to Tophet, like Sennacherib before him.
"We might as well be gettin' off to bed early, I guess. I'm tired, and so be you." "I've felt it for quite a long spell," said his wife earnestly. "I don't know but I've always felt it leastways, all through my married life. It's somethin' that makes me as mad as tophet when you start me out to do anything I don't feel it's no ways right to do, and it keeps whisperin' to me I'm a fool to do it.
For if there were not still a future before the French aristocracy, there would be no need to do more than find a suitable sarcophagus; it were something pitilessly cruel to burn the dead body of it with fire of Tophet.
I don't deny Life's there, he swept his hand towards the open window 'in that frantic Tophet we call London; but there's no focus, no point of vantage. Even a scribbler only gets it piecemeal and through a dulled medium.
About the immense outer fortifications crawled the shadowy valleys of Tophet, of Brook Kedron and of Hinnom. Thickly scattered like fallen patches of skies the pools of Siloam, Gihon, Shiloh, En-Rogel, the Great Pool, the Serpent's Pool and the Dragon's Well reflected the color of the mountain heavens. Between them wandered the blue threads of certain aqueducts that supplied them.
It even cheered him a trifle. "In case of a mix-up," thought he, "there couldn't be a better place for ambushing these infernal cannibals for mowing them down, wholesale for sending them skyhooting to Tophet, in bunches!" And with a grim smile, he worked his way cautiously toward Madison Forest and the pine-tree gate. As he drew near, his care redoubled. His grip on the revolver-butt tightened.
He is a prelatist, who has sought the camp under the disguise of an Erastian, and all, and more than all, that has been said of him must needs be verity. His blood be on his head, the deceiver! let him go down to Tophet, with the ill-mumbled mass which he calls a prayer-book, in his right hand!" "I take up my song against him!" exclaimed the maniac.
Houses and other buildings were being pulled down to make stations; great hoardings were up, enclosing spaces where work went on all day, amidst clankings and groanings of machinery, and clouds of oily-smelling steam, and where work went on all night, with more groanings and more clankings, deplorable shrieks of steam-sirens and hellish flares that might have been reflections from a burning Tophet, cast upon yet bigger and denser clouds of the oily-smelling steam.
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