Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 6, 2025
I was genuinely tired when I got back to the office, that Wednesday afternoon, for it had been a trying day the last of the series of trying days which had marked the progress of the Minturn case; and my feeling of depression was increased by the fact that our victory had not been nearly so complete as I had hoped it would be.
Moreover, they have a better idea of what comfort is than the inhabitants of the seaboard. I cannot better show this than by describing the houses in which I passed part, at least, of the last two Sundays. When I arrived at Ballinrobe on Wednesday last it was almost impossible to obtain quarters either for love or money.
Writing on Wednesday, February 1, from 'Safety Camp, Great Barrier, Scott said: 'I told you that we should be cut off from our winter station, and that I had to get a good weight of stores on to the Barrier to provide for that contingency. We are safely here with all requisite stores, though it has taken nearly a week. But we find the surface very soft and the ponies flounder in it.
Course and distance sail'd South 74 degrees West, 54 Miles; Longitude made from Cape West 5 degrees 55 minutes East. Tack'd and stood to the Eastward. Wednesday, 21st.
Further, they possessed, drawn from these garrisons, a great superiority in that arm which throughout all the earlier part of the great war was the German stand-by heavy artillery, and big howitzers capable of use in the field. On Wednesday, 26th August, Samsonoff first discovered that he had a formidable force in front of him.
Changed my course, so as to keep on the plain; at four miles again crossed, and again met the dense forest, but still no water. Changed to south-east, and at ten miles found ourselves on a large stunted-gum plain. Changed to a little east of south, and arrived at the camp without seeing a drop of water. Wind variable, with heavy clouds from the east. Wednesday, 30th April, Howell Ponds.
There were Six of us concluded to bury them upon the Nineteenth Day of OCTOBER 1726, and every One of us to acquaint Friends of the Day and Hour, being WEDNESDAY, the Day of the Week on which most of them were executed, and at 4 of the Clock at Night, being the Hour that most of them went to their resting Graves.
Vpon Tuesday I wrote to him againe for my dispatch, and then hee sent Fray Lewes to mee, and said that he had order to write. Vpon Wednesday I wrote againe, and he sent me word that vpon Thursday I should come and be dispatched, so that I should depart vpon Friday without faile, being the twelfth of Iuly.
At the same time it was said that Vignon and his party had resolved to turn circumstances to account, with the object of overthrowing the ministry. Thus a redoubtable crisis was inevitably at hand. Fortunately, the Chamber did not meet that Wednesday; in fact, it had adjourned until the Friday, with the view of making mid-Lent a holiday.
It was agreed that Lord Rawson should drive his friend to Marryborough the next Tuesday, and that he should return on Wednesday, with Holloway, to Westminster, on purpose that he might meet Mr. Carat there, who was then to deliver the prizes. "I'll lay you a bet," cried Lord Rawson, as he left the Jew's, "that you'll have a prize yourself.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking