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Thy only chance was to fight him. 'Does your lordship think so indeed? asked Rowland, with a glimmer of eagerness. 'On my soul I do. Thou art weak-headed from thy sickness and weariness. 'You comfort me, my lord a little. But the stolen mare, my lord? 'Ah! there indeed I can say nothing. That was not well done, and evil came thereof.
Brooks is rather shy of it, but he will drink enough to stagger him, for he is pretty weak-headed. We have only to manage these fellows, and there's the end of it. They keep the jail." "Yes, I know; but you don't count young Brooks?" "Oh, he's a mere boy. Don't matter about him. He's easily managed. Now hear to my design.
"She shall proceed to Durham if I am king," answered James, with his usual weak-headed obstinacy. "I make no doubt of her obedience," answered the doctor. "Obedience is what I require," replied the king. "That given, I will do more for her than she expects."
Vrain sat down, and, folding her hands, waited till such time as she would receive the assurance money, and begin a new life as a wealthy and fascinating widow. Every one said that the little woman had behaved very well, and that Vrain weak-headed as he was supposed to be had shown excellent judgment in dividing his property, real and personal, so equally between the two claimants.
Men, whose names no one asked, hawked libels, whose authorship no one knew, from the door of the tradesman to the door of the squire. As the hopes of a Parliament grew fainter, and men despaired of any legal remedy, violent and weak-headed fanatics came, as at such times they always come, to the front.
Then man is weak-headed and foolish, does silly things, and becomes the jest of the children. 177 Death's Messengers In ancient times a giant was once travelling on a great highway, when suddenly an unknown man sprang up before him, and said, "Halt, not one step farther!" "What!" cried the giant, "a creature whom I can crush between my fingers, wants to block my way?
'The Papa of Rome sent his emissaries at an early period amongst us, said the Armenian, 'seducing the minds of weak-headed people, persuading them that the hillocks of Rome are higher than the ridges of Ararat; that the Roman Papa has more to say in heaven than the Armenian patriarch, and that puny Latin is a better language than nervous and sonorous Haik.
The prominent position which Pompeius acquired for himself under Sulla set him at inward variance with the aristocracy, quite as much as it brought him into outward connection with it. Weak-headed as he was, Pompeius was seized with giddiness on the height of glory which he had climbed with such dangerous rapidity and ease.
And again the little old chapel was a bower, with its famous sheaves of corn and corn-plaited pillars, its great bunches of grapes, dangling like tassels from the pulpit corners, its marrows and potatoes and pears and apples and damsons, its purple asters and yellow Japanese sunflowers. Just as before, the red dahlias round the pillars were dropping, weak-headed among the oats.
"And instead of a king, we have this Osbiorn, all men know him, greedy and false and weak-headed. Here he is going to be beaten off at Dover; and then, I suppose, at the next port; and so forth, till the whole season is wasted, and the ships and men lost by driblets. Pray for us to God and his saints, Torfrida, you who are nearer to Heaven than I; for we never needed it more."
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