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Willingly will I pay the expense. Of course, his utmost discretion will be needed;" should the English get the least wind of it! But if they are gone to St. Vitus, and fail in every point, what can one do?
"I stopped at Orville's mother's as I come along, Emarine." "How?" Emarine turned in a startled way from the table. "I say I stopped at Orville's mother's as I come along." "Oh!" "She well?" asked Mrs. Endey. "No, she ain't; shakin' like she had the Saint Vitus dance. She's failed harrable lately. She'd b'en cryin'; her eyes was all swelled up." There was quite a silence. Then Mrs.
America itself is of willing mind; and surely has resources, in such a Cause; but is full of anarchies as well: the different States and sections of it, with their discrepant Legislatures, their half-drilled Militias, pulling each a different way, there is, as in the poor Mother Country, little result except of the St.-Vitus kind.
In a pendent, overhead, stood the German student, as Saint Vitus; and on a lavatory, or basin of holy-water, below, sat a cherub, with the form and features of Berkley. Then the organ-pipes began to blow, and he heard the voices of an invisible choir chanting. And anon the gilded gates in the bronze screen before the chancel opened, and a bridal procession passed through.
Dissensions had broken out among the crusaders, the imperial armies melted away and left Sigismund to face his people alone. He came to some agreement with the leaders of the opposition and was even solemnly crowned at St. Vitus; but the battle on Žiška's hill marked the beginning of the Hussite wars. With the defeat of the Bohemian army on the White Mountain ends the story of St.
Then he looked round in bewilderment and caught sight of her. The gramophone was playing "Rock of Ages." "Can you tell me what is going on in there? Is it St. Vitus' Dance?" Marcella looked at him and gave a little shout of laughter. "No, it's Mrs. Twist's birthday. Didn't you know?" "How could I? Never heard of her. I'm looking for Mrs. Farne. They lent me this animal at Klondyke.
To Vitus Bering, the Dane, Peter gave the commission for the exploration of the waters between Asia and America. As a sailor, Bering had, of course, been on the borders of the Pacific.
At first the patient becomes anxious and restless and cannot remain quiet; he changes his position; he moves about from place to place; he seems to have a great deal of anxiety about the heart, praecordial anguish, as it is termed, particularly at night. "Then, in another series of symptoms, there are jerkings of the limbs, making the patient appear as though he were attacked by St. Vitus' dance.
She talked about her own complaints and those of her CONFIDANTE for the time being, to every lady in the room successively, from our hostess down to Miss Wirt, taking them into corners, and whispering about bronchitis, hepatitis, St. Vitus, neuralgia, cephalalgia, and so forth.
"High time it was over and done with," he said, for this Saint Vitus' dance went on not without certain diminution of force, which disturbed him. In fact he feared, after the febrile agitation of his nights, to reveal himself as a sorry paladin when the time came. "But why bother?" he rejoined, as he started toward Carhaix's, where he was to dine with the astrologer Gévingey and Des Hermies.
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