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Nevertheless we agreed to try it, and so, going higher up the stream, we cast ourselves in, and swam quartering across the tide. A long and heavy swim it was, but no more than two strong men could well manage. All the time, however, I looked to see some red-cloaked Dane come out from the trees and spy us; but there was none.
Looking neither to the right nor to the left as she swung her leaders around the corner, yet no sign of the town's retrogression since her last visit escaped her any more than did the mean small-town smirk upon the faces of a group of doorway loafers, who commented humorously upon the "Sheep Queen's" arrival. Yet there were tiny straws which showed that the wind was quartering.
At intervals, too, he was seen to close his mouth the huge jaws coming together with a "clap-clap," the noise of which could be heard echoing far over the lake! He did not go long in one course; but ever and anon kept turning himself, and quartering the bay in every direction. It was a long time before the spectators could find any explanation of these odd manoeuvres on the part of the bear.
Dodwell was a Protestant: he had some property in Connaught: these crimes were sufficient; and he was set down in the long roll of those who were doomed to the gallows and the quartering block, That James would give his assent to a bill which took from him the power of pardoning, seemed to many persons impossible.
Those who took this bond were to receive an assurance that the troops should not be quartered on their lands a matter of considerable importance for this quartering involved great expense and much destruction of property in most cases, and absolute ruin in some.
As the hurdles came slowly under the gate, the sun broke out for the first time; and as the horses that drew the hurdles came round towards the carts that stood near the gallows and the platform on which the quartering block stood, a murmur began that ran through the crowd from those nearest the martyrs. "But they are laughing, they are laughing!"
The Nandi describe every day of the month by the appearance of the moon or by its relation to occupations. But, though the quartering of the lunation may seem to us the most natural division of the month, in actual practice it is rather the exception.
The open barren was ahead, miles of it, while only a little to the westward was the shelter of timber. Twice he blundered to the edge of this timber, but quickly set his course again in the open, with the wind always quartering at his back. He could only guess how long he kept on.
XXVI. He was advanced to public offices before the age at which he was legally qualified for them; and to some, also, of a new kind, and for life. He seized the consulship in the twentieth year of his age, quartering his legions in a threatening manner near the city, and sending deputies to demand it for him in the name of the army.
"It's heartily welcome you will be, sir," the woman said, "and we will all do the best we can for you." The men were now ordered to fall out. The sergeant proceeded with them through the village, quartering two men on each house, while Ralph went round to see what provisions were obtainable.
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