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"The Lake Superior mines and the reclamation of the Florida Everglades would be nothing to this." "Any inhabitants we may find here have so much land at their disposal that they will not need to drain swamps on account of pressure of population for some time," put in the doctor. "I hope we may find some four-legged inhabitants," said Ayrault, thinking of their explosive magazine rifles.
That ammunition mule has always a good deal to bear, but now the burden put on him officially is almost too heavy for any four-legged thing. LADYSMITH, November 2, 1899. "Long Tom" opened fire at a quarter-past six from Pepworth Hill, and was replied to by the Naval Brigade.
Then, whispering a few words to his father who seemed to be hanging back but to give way at last the boy ran to the door, dropped down on all fours so as to be hidden by the trees from the house, and glided off almost as rapidly as some four-legged animal. "The young coward, to run away like that," I said to myself, as another loud cry of "Pompey, Pompey!
Now one must die, and I'm just fixing these little steel points on for them so the function can be performed decently. I'm a man of fine feelings." "You're a brute when you let them kill one another with gaffs." "Nonsense. The fighting instinct is elemental in all animal life two-legged and four-legged. Animals fight as inevitably as they breathe.
Relatively light of quarters and shallow of flank and barrel, he was unusually high and humped of withers, broad and deep of chest and heavy of shoulders indeed a well-nigh perfect four-legged type of a finely trained two-legged athlete, with a pair of peculiarly straight-upstanding horns that were long and almost as sharp as rapiers.
"That means," said the prince, bitterly, "that I am free to wander through the stupid streets of Potsdam; appear at his table; that my clothes may be soiled by his unbearable four-legged friends, and my ears deafened by the dull, pedantic conversation of his no less unbearable two-legged friends."
Some also contain accounts of living things: flies, worms, fishes, birds and four-legged beasts. And some, which are the most, are about men and their thoughts and doings. These are the most important of all; for men are the best and most wonderful creatures of God in the world; being the only ones able to know him and love him, and to try of their own accord to do his will.
Then, with a long breath of relief, she put down her four-legged burden and fastened the end of the babiche to one of the cut spruce limbs. Baree burrowed himself back into the wall of the wigwam, and with head alert and eyes wide open watched his companion attentively. Not a movement of the Willow escaped him. She was radiant and happy.
His educational methods also differ materially from Von Osten's. It was a strange thing, but deep down in the rather queer, cross-grained soul of the old enthusiast there had grown up gradually a sort of hatred for his four-legged pupil. He felt the stallion's proud and nervous will resisting his with an obstinacy which he qualified as diabolical.
Barring the disappearance of this four-legged police which at one time devoured M. du Mollet, the existence of which is confirmed by a contemporaneous text, the exterior of things has changed but little, no doubt, and even the civilized people living in Saint-Malo admit that it is very much behind the times.
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