where the assailants recoiled from the unmatched force of his terrible arm. The Earl of Chester seeing this, and envious of the glory the king was gaining, threw himself upon him with the whole weight of his men-at-arms. Even then the king’s courage did...
She had, by way of morning robe, a pink domino, a trifle faded and soiled, and marked here and there with pomaturn; but her arms shone out from the loose sleeves of the dress very white and fair, and it was tied round her little waist so as not ill to set off the trim little ...
I would assume the Irish crown over my coat-of-arms, but that there are so many silly pretenders to that distinction who bear it and render it common. Who knows, but for the fault of a woman, I might have been wearing it now? You start with incredulity. I say, why not? Had ...
Under one authority or another the name of the viceroyalty was changed to “United Provinces of La Plata River”; a seal, a flag ,and a coat of arms were chosen; and numerous features of the Spanish regime were abolished, including titles of nobility, the Inquisition, the slave trade, ...
With winged haste to the lord marshal;This to my cousin Scroop, and all the restTo whom they are directed. If you knewHow much they do to import, you would make haste.SIR MICHAELMy good lord,I guess their tenor.ARCHBISHOP OF YORK...
Enter BRANDON, a Sergeant-at-arms before him, and two or three of the Guard BRANDON Your office, sergeant; execute it. Sergeant Sir, My lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl OfHereford, Stafford, andNorthampton, I Arrest thee of high treason, in the name ...
But when the text-book theologians marshal collectively all their reasons for recommending it, the mixture sounds to our ears rather odd.[186] Lejuene: Introduction a la Vie Mystique, 1899, p. 277. The holocaust simile goes back at least as far as Ignatius Loyola.“One of the great ...
Buck Conner was the city marshal. “Then you’ll go to jail, sure enough. Tom-Tom’ll say he didn’t know it was there. You’ll be the only one that knew it was there. So what you reckon Buck Conner’ll think? You’ll be the one that knew where it was hid at,and Buck ...
He was brief and stern in conversations; and he always went to masquerades and balls in a field-marshal’s uniform. “He looks really quite the thing to-night,” continued Mrs. Crump. “Yes,” said ‘Gina; “but he’s such an odious wig, and the dye of his whiskers always comes ...
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