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They kill us and we kill them, for they are jealous of their shrine, which none may visit save by permission, to consult the Oracle and to make prayer or offering in times of calamity, when a Khan ...
What followed I will not describe, but never shall I forget the scene of those two heaps of worrying wolves, and of the maniac Khan, who yelled in his fiendish joy, and cheered on his death-hounds ...
Moreover, the present Khania, our hostess, was the last of the direct line of rulers, her husband and cousin having less of the blood royal in his veins, and as such the people were attached to her...
She is the real ruler of this land, and I stand next to her." "Then I pray you," said Leo, "keep me out of the way of that drunken man, for, look you, if I am at...
"It is feared not," she answered, "for the river has not risen well and but few rains have fallen. Also the light that shone last night on the Fire-mountain is thought a ...
suite Yet the English middle classes found it difficult to believe they could actually find themselves fighting their Teutonic cousins -160;a sentiment, in fact, widely shared by their counterparts...
suite But British statesmen were convinced that with the Prussian element vanquished they could draw a line under recent history and assume that another war with Germany was out of the question. As...
[ 69][ 69] Ibid. , p. 160;462. ...suite 51 The last sentence was perhaps fair comment, but the history itself was remarkably self-serving. T shirt burberry soldes The assertion that France had grow...
Le Chant des Africains, chant de marche de la division marocaine en 1914, s'impose avec les Chantiers de Jeunesse, puis la Première Armée, et devient ensuite le chant de ralliement des Fran?ais d'A...
He said, 'Show me your hair,' and I placed a lock of it in his hand. Presently he let it fall, and from that satchel which he wears about his neck drew out another tress of hair--oh! Simbri, my unc...
" "Atene, be plain, what will you with the man called Leo--that he should become your lover?" asked the Shaman. She stared him straight in the eyes, and answered boldly--...
What could it matter what people called him, so long as he did nothing he ought not to do? And, besides, God's baby was surely the best of names! Well, my little man, and what can you do?"...
"Then there's Jack and Mr. Stonecrop, and, deary me! not to have mentioned Mr. Coleman and Mrs. Coleman, and Miss Coleman, and Mrs. Crump. And then there's the clergyman that spoke to me i...
In matters temporal, the Khan of Kaloon.The Khan. Ah! you are married, lady, are you not?she answered, her face flushing. "And I will tell you what you soon must learn, if you have not lea...
Instead of extracting raw materials, using them once and throwing them away, the new vision is for a different economic model. In a circular economy, re-use, repair and recycling become the norm, a...
I will tell him. You may be sure he will come. My father thinks you a very kind gentleman, and I know he is right, for I know your very own self, sir.Mr. Raymond smiled, and as they had now reached...
The small farm of Little Rathie lies two miles from Thrums, and Tammas and I trudged manfully through the snow, adding to our numbers as we went. The dress of none differed materially from the prec...
' Man, that terrified Donal's wife; it did so." As we delved up the twisting road between two fields that leads to the farm of Little Rathie, the talk became less general, and another mour...
But it is cosier to put on the shutters. The road to Thrums has lost itself miles down the valley. I wonder what they are doing out in the world. Though I am the Free Church precentor in Thrums (te...
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