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Updated: June 3, 2025
Then came the Burgreve of Oakenham, and with him the Barons and the Knights, and they knelt before him, and named him to king, and the Burgreve gave him the keys of the city. Thereafter came the Mayor and the Aldermen, and the Masters of the Crafts, and they craved his favour, and warding of his mighty sword; and all these he greeted kindly and meekly, rather as a friend than as a great lord.
So saying, Louis tenderly embraced the little boy, and the Rouennais below broke out into another cry, in which "Long live King Louis," was joined with "Long live Richard!" "You will not let the child go?" said Eric, meanwhile, to Harcourt. "Not without provision for his safety, but we are not fit for war as yet, and to let him go is the only means of warding it off."
"Yes, I know. I do not love you don't touch me!" She held out her hands to him, palm outwards, as if warding off some present danger. He paid no heed to her warning, but caught her to him again. "Tell me now you don't love me, Aileen," he whispered, laying his cheek to hers. "I tell you I do not love you," she said aloud; her voice was clear and firm.
Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas inertia.
"I've got to dodge more, and not let myself be cornered," Darrin told himself, keeping his fists busy in warding off blows. Then, of a sudden, Dave turned on the aggressive. He struck fast and furiously, but Treadwell, with a grin, beat down his attack, then soon landed a swinging hook on Dave's neck that sent him spinning briefly.
Even in his unconsciousness he looked as though he were warding off the horror of the sight which had stricken him to the ground. In the presence of domestic calamity human nature betrays its inherent weakness. At such times the artificial outer covering of civilization falls away, and the soul stands forth, stark, primitive, forlorn, and cries aloud.
The planting of their crops took several weeks, and was very hard work, for neither of them was an expert farmer. When the corn and wheat came up there were almost no weeds, and the stand was better than usual for sod land; but they were kept busy warding off the horses and cattle that preferred the fresh young corn and wheat to the indifferent natural grass.
Phillips leaned forward and laid a hand on the older man's shoulder. "Jed," he said gently, "I know why you're not hungry. Oh, Jed, what in the world made you do it?" Jed started back so violently that his chair almost upset. He raised a hand with the gesture of one warding off a blow. "Do?" he gasped. "Do what?" "Why, what you did about that money that Captain Hunniwell lost.
"He! the point aimed at by every poniard! Richelieu, who passed his life in warding off blows which were forever aimed at him!" "But he did ward them off," said De Rochefort, "and the reason was, that though he had bitter enemies he possessed also true friends.
And he said to himself, 'Indeed what the Rishi hath said must come to pass. We will succeed in warding off the fates by exertion alone? Then Yudhishthira endued with great energy addressing all his brothers, said, 'Ye tigers among men, ye have heard what the island-born Rishi hath told me.
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