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Updated: May 31, 2025
Then in the night arose the train of visions; the trenches always the trenches; those hideous broken woods of the Somme front, where the blasted soil has sucked the best life-blood of England; those labyrinthine diggings and delvings in a tortured earth, made for the Huntings of Death 'Death that lays man at his length' for panting pursuit, and breathless flight, and the last crashing horror of the bomb, in some hell-darkness at the end of all: these haunted her.
She could only think that they would go out to Gloria and get killed there, together. But was not that enough? They would be killed together. What better could she ask or hope? Youth is curiously generous with its life-blood. It delights to think of throwing life away, not merely for some beloved being, but even with some beloved being.
"So it hath been revealed to the heart of thy slave." "A year hath passed since last thou wert in Jerusalem. In the arena at Rome hath been the clash of steel, and fangs, and the wild and soul-piercing music of screams and dying curses. Beyond Rome hath Rome held the nations of the earth under the sword-blade that her lords be drunk and her rich fed on the life-blood of the poor.
This satisfied the wily Indian, who retreated and joined the others. Hope was again awakened in Leland's breast painful hope, that increased his doubts and fears hope that drowned the torture that beset him hope that sent the life-blood coursing rapidly and hotly through his veins, and increased the charms which life had held out to him.
In brief, the popular discontent gave strength to a movement which aimed at ousting foreign influences of every kind, not only the usurers and stock-jobbers that sucked the life-blood of the land, but even the engineers and bankers who quickened its sluggish circulation.
So long, however, as he held the towns and bridges on the great rivers, and especially those keys to the Seine and Marne, Corbeil and Lagny, he still controlled the life-blood of the capital, which indeed had almost ceased to flow. On the 31st August he advanced towards the enemy. Sir Edward Stafford, Queen Elizabeth's ambassador, arrived at St. Denis in the night of the 30th August.
It will no more ruin us than a winter storm can ruin the seed in the ground. Manisty is like all the other clever foreigners who write dirges about us they don't feel the life-blood pulsing through the veins as we landowners do. He flung out his clasped hand in a dramatic gesture. 'Come and live with us for a summer on one of our big farms near Mantua and you shall see.
He had trifled with the public service and defrauded the government, as too many others were and have since been doing on every hand draining his Mother Country of her life-blood in her very hour of need, and so aiding to commit that most deadly and horrible of crimes matricide. Could this man still have one virtue remaining? Let this be seen.
It lives on the life-blood and sufferings of some, on the suffrance and mutual jealousy of others, and on the fixed illusion of all. Rather is it a great Mendicity Institute. England now, instead of "robbing from Pole to Pole," as John Mitchel once defined her activities, goes begging from Pole to Pole that all and every one shall give her a helping hand to keep the plunder.
Away with learning's crown! Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's fount of flame! Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame! My listening angel heard the prayer, And calmly smiling, said, "If I but touch thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish hath sped.
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