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Updated: June 28, 2025
Gentlemen merchants had better times in Virginia. So there was a winding-up of the estate, not greatly to my pleasure; for it was found that by unwise ventures my father's partner had perilled the whole, and lost part of the property.
Exasperated at this communication, he sat down to pen a long epistle to Clare, seasoned with strong epithets, and winding-up with an invitation to his friend to come to London.
"There may be some trap in the way, and it's hard that you should have to fall down that, at all events." When we were all in, the soldiers followed, making us go winding-up till we reached a chamber at the top of the building.
"Aldous" Miss Hallin could not yet reconcile herself to the new name was alone in the Curzon Street house, much occupied and harassed apparently by the legal business of the succession, by the election presently to be held in his own constituency, and by the winding-up of his work at the Home Office.
At Cawsand we obtained the newspaper, and after a few pots of beer, we again made sail for the mouth of the Channel. It hardly need be observed, that the account of this winding-up, as it proved, of our naval triumphs, with the death of Nelson, was the subject of conversation for more than one day.
The results of this action are well-known, and do not need repeating here; it was one of the winding-up scenes of the war. The French, slow to believe their naval inferiority, now submitted in silence. Our navy had done its work; and from that time, the brunt of the war fell on the army.
When the earth was thrown on Mamsey's coffin, and the son, in crape scarf and hatband, turned away homeward, his good angel, lingering with outstretched wing on the edge of the grave, cast one despairing look after him, and took flight for ever. The last week in March three weeks after old Mrs. Dempster died occurred the unpleasant winding-up of affairs between Dempster and Mr.
Aunt Jane, however, could hear through anything -even through the winding-up of what the family called 'Aunt Ada's Jackdaw, and she drew her conclusions, with increasing respect and pity for the young girl over whose life such a change had come.
How John relished the winding-up of the corporal's offer could not well be seen, as an order to resume the step interrupted the conversation. Progress was slow, necessarily, from the caution required in the approach to the river. Over the rolling ground, to an artillery accompaniment unequalled in grandeur, the troops trudged slowly along.
In the statue, she stands musing, with her head drooping forward, as if the weight of the breastplate oppressed her woman's heart; the melancholy soul which shines through the marble seems to forebode the fearful winding-up of her eventful destiny. The afternoon was somewhat advanced, by the time I had seen the palace and gardens.
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