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Updated: May 4, 2025
And a wonderful thing it was in the midst of those warlike, stirring, restless tribes that solitary land, with its plane grove bordering the Alpheus, adorned with innumerable and hallowed monuments and statues unvisited by foreign wars and civil commotion a whole state one temple! The Pentathlon was a contest of five gymnastic exercises combined.
The old lioness hung around within a hundred yards or so below, and the buffalo herd, returning, filed by above, pausing to stamp and snort at the fire. Finally, about nine o'clock, I made out two lanterns bobbing up to me through the trees. The last incident to be selected from many experiences with buffaloes took place in quite an unvisited district over the mountains from the Loieta Plains.
Yet save for these facts it might have been the Paris of old time, unvisited by hunger, misery, or death. The curfew had sounded. Every citizen had long since gone within, extinguished his lights, and locked his door.
There were plenty of other ships on the hunt. From here on, it looked like routine to the next unvisited family of planets. But meanwhile he worked. Opposite him, Diane Holt worked as steadily, her dark head bent intently over a radar graph in formation. The immediate job was the completion of a map of the meteor swarms following cometary orbits about this sun.
Though Boupari was one of those rare and isolated small islands unvisited as yet by European trade, he had, nevertheless, heard enough of the sailing gods to know that their skill was deep and their weapons very dangerous. It would be foolish to provoke this man to wrath too soon.
We tossed them what was left of the chocolate and went on. The presence of a wagon-trail in that empty land, unvisited and unknown, requires explanation. In the first place, it was not really a road. It was a trail, and in places barely that. But, sixteen years before, a road had been cleared through the forest by some people who believed there was oil near the Canadian line.
After some half-jesting observations, expressive of surprise that a young man and consequently, as she deemed, a gay one should have selected as his residence an unvisited quarter and a very retired house, she took my arm, and proceeded to the dinner-room.
He has beaten the country thoroughly for three leagues of the town on those two sides, as you desired him, but unfortunately without result. He is now spreading his search to the south, and not a house is being left unvisited. By morning he hopes to report again to your Excellency." A wild wave of joy swept through my soul. They had ransacked the country west and north of Cattolica without result.
Alas for human hopes and aspirations, this gallant sailor died before his merits could be acknowledged or rewarded, and I believe one or two of his sisters were, until very lately, living in the very poorest circumstances. The name of Flinders is, however, held in greater veneration than any of his predecessors or successors, for no part of the Australian coast was unvisited by him.
And does it not usually fail of recognition because so many of us who are in fact weak, look and feel strong because we are sheltered by inherited money or by powerful friends or relatives or by chance lodgment in a nook unvisited of the high winds of life in the open? Susan liked Garvey at once; they exchanged smiles and were friends. She glanced round the room.
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