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Moral effects of shell-fire General White appeals to Joubert The neutral camp Attitude of civilians Meeting at the Town Hall A veteran's protest Faith in the Union Jack An impressive scene Removal of sick and wounded Through the Boer lines How the posts were manned Enemy mounting big guns More about the spies Boer war ethics In an English garden Throwing up defences A gentlemanly monster The Troglodytes Humorous and pathetic "Long Tom" and "Lady Anne" Links in the chain of fire A round game of ordnance.
"At Fontainebleau, the king's table, where a whole stag is dished up in his skin and his antlers, presents to the eye of the philosopher a spectacle as rude as that of the troglodytes, cowering round the smoking cinders, gnawing horse bones.
My 'Literary Times' once started, people will wonder how they had ever lived without it! Sir, they have not lived without it, they have vegetated; they have lived in holes and caves, like the Troggledikes." "Troglodytes," said my father, mildly, "from trogle, `a cave, and dumi, 'to go under. They lived in Ethiopia, and had their wives in common."
"The females and young, at the first cry, quickly disappear. He then approaches the enemy in great fury, pouring out his horrid cries in quick succession. "In the wild state, their habits are in general like those of the 'Troglodytes niger', building their nests loosely in trees, living on similar fruits, and changing their place of resort from force of circumstances." Dr.
"We do not, of course, mean to say that a beautiful rural church will make all the population about it devotional, any more than that sunshine will banish gloom; but it is one of the influences that prepare the way for religious feeling, and which we are as unwise to neglect, as we should be to abjure the world and bury ourselves, like the ancient troglodytes, in caves and caverns."
But there is a case, and one which is well known, that bears directly upon this question, and gives us the connecting link between the Kosekin and their Semitic brethren in the northern hemisphere." "What is that?" asked the doctor. "The Troglodytes," said Oxenden, with impressive solemnity. "Well, and what do you make out of the Troglodytes?" "I will explain," said Oxenden.
Night set in, they quickened their pace, and the fears of the two prisoners grew greater, especially as they heard themselves assailed with "Get on, ye Troglodytes;" "Silence, ye barbarians;" "March, ye cannibals;" "No murmuring, ye Scythians;" "Don't open your eyes, ye murderous Polyphemes, ye blood-thirsty lions," and suchlike names with which their captors harassed the ears of the wretched master and man.
On the contrary, he was inclined to think that it dated from yet earlier days; days when the Troglodytes, Manigones, Septocardes, Merdones, Anthropophagoi and other hairy aboriginals used to paddle across, in crazy canoes, to barter the produce of their savage African glens-serpent-skins, and gums, and gazelle horns, and ostrich eggs for those super-excellent lobsters and peasant girls for which Nepenthe had been renowned from time immemorial.
The troglodytes, then, were but two; but there was a third fugitive regicide who came to Newhaven, and now lies there in his grave. This was none other than John Dixwell, whose name, with those of Goffe and Whalley, may be found on that infamous death-warrant, which some have not scrupled to call the Major Charta.
He conquered the Troglodytes and the cannibals. He travelled through regions so torrid that the heat of the sun would set fire to the hair on one's head; he journeyed through countries so glacial that one's arms would fall from the body; and he passed through places where the fogs were so dense that it seemed like being surrounded by phantoms.
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