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She endangered her neighbours because there was no guarantee that she might not fall under the tutelage of one of them and become a weapon against the others. The division of Poland was an outrage upon the Polish people, but it was largely dictated by an entirely honest desire to settle a dangerous possibility.
After this little adventure the wanderers conducted their perambulations much more circumspectly, and Ned lost no time in providing his companion and himself with a stout pliant switch, which he had heard or read somewhere is a most effective weapon against snakes.
At this match all the court was present, and Laertes, by direction of the king, prepared a poisoned weapon.
The English people, he will argue, hold their own destiny in their own hand. We already possess all but manhood suffrage; and, until that power is taken from us, which it could never be without a fierce struggle, we possess a weapon with which any and every attempt to re-introduce the servile status can successfully be resisted.
"I'm not afraid." Blake returned with his friend to his lodgings, where he found a billet already from Redmond, who was all eagerness to wing his rival. On the next morning, two friends of the bellige-rents were closeted for the purpose of arranging the preliminaries for the fight. "The weapon?" asked the friend of the military man.
'Tis a dangerous weapon, that will hinder and wound its master, if put into an awkward and unskilful hand: "Ut fuerit melius non didicisse." Cicero, Tusc.
And as for admiration, the admiration of men why, you know it is not worth having of this sort." "Oh, do I not know it! It is less than worthless. But I am not seeking anything of permanent value; I am seeking excitement, and the superficial satisfaction of brandishing the weapon that everyone would be charmed to see me lay in the dust. I won't lay it down to please anybody.
There was no sign of it anywhere in the room, and most certainly none of the men who came out the previous night had such a weapon concealed upon him. "Doctors were at once sent for, and the first medical gentlemen to arrive said that each of the four had been dead for many hours, but they also imagined that the coffee, the remains of which we found in some cups on the table, had been drugged.
"I haven't any kind of weapons," said Doctor Svetilovitch with an amused laugh. "I haven't even a gun for hunting. What kind of weapon can I possibly have?" "We'll have a look!" said the Colonel in a meaningful voice. They turned the whole house upside down. Of course they found no weapons of any kind.
The Egyptian authorities had discovered their loss. The thing was there. He was caught red-handed. He reached the door and cautiously opened it an inch. Cassidy stood there, armed with a hatchet. They would use violence! "Hatchet!" said Cassidy, genially extending the weapon. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. The aroma of beer stole into the room.
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