Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 224W. Blackwood, 1928 |
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... course , that the raiders would be coming up- stream past the fort , and that we might expect them at any moment , but when I got out and interviewed the messenger myself , I found that the mar- auders were taking a southern route back ...
... course , that the raiders would be coming up- stream past the fort , and that we might expect them at any moment , but when I got out and interviewed the messenger myself , I found that the mar- auders were taking a southern route back ...
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... course , he was quite right ; the risk was consider- able , but I hated to think of letting the raiders go past within thirty miles while I sat and did nothing . At this point the messenger , who had been listening to our conversation ...
... course , he was quite right ; the risk was consider- able , but I hated to think of letting the raiders go past within thirty miles while I sat and did nothing . At this point the messenger , who had been listening to our conversation ...
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... course , submitted a written report about my at- tempt to cut off the raiding party , and had described the finding of the skeleton , but the people at headquarters were not as interested as I had expected , and , though they promised ...
... course , submitted a written report about my at- tempt to cut off the raiding party , and had described the finding of the skeleton , but the people at headquarters were not as interested as I had expected , and , though they promised ...
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... course , you must know his name . " " I do , " put in Hawkwood . He " Well , " continued Ricardo , " Abelsburg is a fine old fellow , an orthodox Jew , very strict , and not at all like the flashy diamond encrusted specimens one sees so ...
... course , you must know his name . " " I do , " put in Hawkwood . He " Well , " continued Ricardo , " Abelsburg is a fine old fellow , an orthodox Jew , very strict , and not at all like the flashy diamond encrusted specimens one sees so ...
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... course you know , Queen of Abyssinia , stole the Ark of the Covenant from Solomon , and brought it back with her and hid it on an island in Lake Tsana . " 66 ' But , " I objected , " the Israelites surely had the Ark long after ...
... course you know , Queen of Abyssinia , stole the Ark of the Covenant from Solomon , and brought it back with her and hid it on an island in Lake Tsana . " 66 ' But , " I objected , " the Israelites surely had the Ark long after ...
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Page 45 - Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him ? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines : for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
Page 673 - Where by any of these rules one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.
Page 338 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 489 - Seamen in general that whatever you give them out of the common way — altho' it be ever so much for their good — it will not go down, and you will hear nothing but murmurings against the Man that first invented it; but the moment they see their superiors set a value upon it, it becomes the finest stuff in the world and the inventor an honest fellow.
Page 493 - Yards from the breakers, the same Sea that washed the sides of the Ship rose in a breaker prodigiously high the very next time it did rise so that between us and destruction was only a dismal Vally the breadth of one wave and even now no ground could be felt with 120 fathoms.
Page 845 - From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time, — they, and the Arabian Nights and the Tales of the Genii...
Page 420 - ... refusal. To give way to the blackmailer's menaces enriches him, but it has long been proved by uniform experience that, although this may secure for the victim temporary peace, it is certain to lead to renewed molestation and higher demands after ever-shortening periods of amicable forbearance.
Page 421 - Either Germany is definitely aiming at a general political hegemony and maritime ascendency, threatening the independence of her neighbours and ultimately the existence of England; Or Germany, free from any such clear-cut ambition, and thinking for the present merely of using her legitimate position and influence as one of the leading Powers in the council of nations, is seeking to promote her foreign commerce, spread the benefits of German culture, extend the scope of her national energies, and...
Page 78 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 845 - Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii — and did me no harm ; for, whatever harm was in some of them, was not there for me ; I knew nothing of it.