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The hill was now becoming too hot to hold them; the Arabs, bent on dislodging them, continued their fire with greater accuracy, until it became so deadly that the rest of the work had to be done lying down. The process of fastening the iron block to the crowbar was comparatively easy, and yet it was during this operation that the first casualty happened.
Bent then on this design to preach Nirvâna, as the sun's glory bursts through the darkness, so went he on towards Benares, the place where dwelt the ancient Rishis. With eyes as gentle as the ox king's, his pace as firm and even as the lion's, because he would convert the world he went on towards the Kâsi city.
He had talked about her to Fannie at luncheon and pronounced her "unusual." "Why, really" he began, looked up at Garnet and back again to Barbara. Garnet bent over him confidentially. "Just between us I'd like to advise with you about something I've never mentioned to a soul.
Not fer me," he said. "Leslie has a rifle. So has Bent, an' we haven't one among us. An', Buell, if Leslie falls in with Bent, it's goin' to git hot fer us round here." This silenced Buell, but did not stop his restless pacings. His face was like a thunder-cloud, and he was plainly worried and harassed.
And both Salya and Vrikodara, standing as they did, with their maces slightly bent, looked like a couple of horned bulls. Whether as regards coursing in circles or in whirling and striking with their maces, the combat that took place between those two lions among men was in every way equal.
And again looking despondently into the fire she pondered that far-off perversity of her father's. 'Blood has strange magnetisms, said Langham, seized as he spoke by the pensive prettiness of the bent head and neck, 'and they show themselves in the oddest ways. 'Then I wish they wouldn't, she said irritably. 'But that isn't all.
The wounds bled sore, as they had done at first. Much greater grew the weeping of those who wailed afore. Then spake King Gunther: "I'd have you know that robbers slew him; Hagen did not do the deed." "I know these robbers well," quoth she. "Now may God yet let his friends avenge it. Certes, Gunther and Hagen, 'twas done by you." Siegfried's knights were now bent on strife.
He was then placed in the Bluecoat school and there met his lifelong friend, Charles Lamb. The theological studies that at first seemed to be his natural bent were no doubt a consequence of his early environment. Near the church is a house now occupied by Lord Coleridge.
Pol and the cardinal De la Balue, Bishop of Evreux, were of his opinion, and urged him to the top of his bent. Of them he especially made use in his more or less secret relations with the Duke of Burgundy; and he charged them to sound him with respect to a personal interview between himself and the duke.
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