United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Art thou not ashamed to reach over for a dish that is distant from thee? Quoth Bersoum, 'I will eat of none but this dish. 'Eat then, rejoined the other, 'and small good may it do thee! But another man, a hashish- eater, said, 'Let him eat of it, that I may eat with him. 'O unluckiest of hashish-eaters, replied the first speaker, 'this is no meat for thee; it is eating for Amirs.
"Seems to me you are only the second unluckiest this time," said a young soldier with his mouth full; and, with a certain dry humor, he pointed vaguely over his shoulder with the fork towards the corpse. The trenches laughed and assented. This want of sympathy and justice irritated Dard. "You cursed fools!" cried he. "He is gone where we must all go without any trouble. But look at me.
"If I'd only have had confound them! if I'd only had another cartridge or two, I wouldn't have cared," he said as they laid him down close by me; "but I always was the unluckiest beggar on the face of the earth. They've most done for me, Ike, and no wonder, for it's all fifty to one up there, and I don't believe a man of ours has a shot left."
"Lady Howard, indeed! why, do you think I'd wear one of her dowdies? No, I'll promise you, I sha'n't put on no such disguisement. It's the unluckiest thing in the world that I did not make the man pick up the curls again; but he put me in such a passion, I could not think of nothing.
The Fenian movement will fail like all its predecessors. The only reason for its continuance is that its successor may succeed. Step by step! Few nations are as lucky as this to win in the first fight. Our country is the unluckiest of all. Her battle has been on seven hundred years." "But I think there must be more consolation in the fight than your words imply;" Arthur declared.
Word Of The Day