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Another incident of the winter was the two attempts on Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina, the first, under General Butler, a failure; the second, under General Terry, a brilliant success. All these movements were in execution of plans and directions given by the lieutenant-general. It was the 29th of March when, all preparations having been made, Grant began the final movement.
"I should be afraid to put my school-boy German against your English," March said, and, when he had understood, the other laughed for pleasure, and reported the compliment to his wife in their own parlance. "You Germans certainly beat us in languages." "Oh, well," he retaliated, "the Americans beat us in some other things," and Mrs.
It was a question of the march through the Grotto which went on throughout the afternoon. The faithful were permitted to enter by the door on the left, and made their exit by that on the right. "Close the gate!" exclaimed the Baron. "But that would be worse; they would all get crushed against it!"
L'Hospital gave in his resignation on the 1st of February, 1573, and died six weeks afterwards, on the 18th of March. "I am just at the end of my long journey, and shall have no more business but with God," he wrote to the king and the queen-mother.
Compline. Advent Christmas St. Stephen; St. John; Circumcision; Epiphany; Septuagesima; Lent; Easter and Paschal Times; Ascension; Whit Sunday; Trinity Sunday December; January; February; March; May; June; July; August; October; November Etymology. The word, Breviary, comes from an old Latin word, Breviarium, an abridgment, a compendium.
"It is more scientific, and it will be more amusing." "Poor thing! it will be a blow to her. Don't you like her?" "No." "Why not?" "Because she did not trust me, and because she eclipses me. Therefore I am glad of an opportunity of destroying her." "You are a very ruthless woman." "When I have an end in view, I march straight to it; I do not vacillate that is all.
This done, they commenced their march in search of some human habitations, Tom and Brown supporting poor Jack, who was unable to walk without help, between them.
Sir Henry Clinton had observed the appearances on his flanks and rear on the twenty-seventh; and, conjecturing that the American army was in his neighbourhood, had changed the order of his march.
It was one of these high-explosive shells, and the shop, a wooden structure, immediately burst into flames." Recapitulation The destruction of towns and villages, and the vengeance against inanimate objects shown in the German march through Belgium was barbaric.
The hard frosts and the snow were over, for it was past the middle of March; but the house at Fern's Hollow remained in precisely the same state as when little Nan died; not a stroke of work had been done at it, and a profound silence brooded over the place. Perhaps the master had lost all pleasure in his ill-gotten possession!
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