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...y that himself) was to do about “ta sneeshin.” I took some note of him for a short, bandy-legged, red-haired, big-headed man, that I was to know more ... ...hich would add disgrace to my mis- fortune. So that, taking all in all, I continued marching be- hind him, much as a man follows the hangman, and cer-... ...confederacy, and what remained of Rob Roy’s old desperate sept of caterans would be banded against me with the others. One thing was requisite – some ... ...PTER XIII – GILLANE SANDS I DID NOT PROFIT by Alan’s pilotage as he had done by his marchings under General Cope; for I can scarce tell what way we we... ... whether material or not – a witness in this cause, kidnapped by that old, lawless, bandit crew of the Glengyle Macgregors, and sequestered for near u... ...g risks; and the course of events will push them upon the one side and go on like a marching army. James was hanged; and here was I dwelling in the ho... ...d some of them in brigades in the same set of tartan; they were not backward at the marching, I can tell you. And there were gentlemen from the Low Co... ...that I would no more let a wife be forced upon myself, than what I would let a hus- band be forced on the young lady.” 203 Catriona He sat and glower... ...ill far off; and when we popped over a knowe, and found a company of the gar- rison marching on the other side on some manoeuvre, I could very well un...

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...d at once. When the visitors had left, Marya Vasilevna went up to her hus- band and standing in front of him, said severely— “Eh bien! vous allez m... ...aster over it went away . During the whole time the doctor was probing and bandaging the wound Avdeev lay with clenched teeth and closed eyes, but whe... ...aking under the new bark shoes she wore over her tightly wound woolen leg- bands. The men were shovelling the unwinnowed grain 42 Hadji Murad into he... ...me- spun cloak over it, his legs wrapped round with warm white woollen leg-bands, took the letter, placed it in his wallet, said a prayer, got into th... ...husband with whom she had lived but one short year. She regretted her hus- band and her own ruined life, and in her lamentations mentioned Peter’ s br... ... rifles on their shoulders and cartridges in their belts. As usual when marching through a hostile country , silence was observed as far as possibl... ...dued voice to his subordinates that the line was spreading out too much or marching too near or too far from the column. Only once was the silence bro...

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...h like, make a fine romantic interlude in civic business. Bugles, and drums, and fifes, are of themselves most excellent things in nature; and when th... ...ortionate commotion. Indeed, they were the only things to remember. It was just the place to hear the round going by at night in the darkness, with th... ...he river. We were so sadly drenched that the landlady lit a few sticks in the chimney for our comfort; there we sat in a steam of vapour, lamenting ou... ...gh the forest of Fontainebleau, on the Chailly road, between the Bas Breau and the Reine Blanche. One fellow walked a little before the rest, and sang... ...rteen matrons and misses were filled in for each week of the month as associ- ates, with one other, generally a married woman, at the top for Zelatric... ...iving protest against offices and the mercantile spirit, and as something to remind us that life is not by necessity the kind of thing we generally ma...

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...loating wick, and a young woman, with a swelled face bound up in a flannel bandage blowing the fire of the drawing room (now connected by an open door... ...oking to speak of, but it was almost raw. The young woman with the flannel bandage waited, and dropped everything on the table wherever it happened to... ...m to bed, I carried him upstairs, where the young woman with the flan nel bandage charged into the midst of the little family like a dragon and overt... ...hanging without any counterpoise from a beam, might have been counsellors’ bands and gowns torn up. One had only to fancy, as Richard whispered to Ada... ...ame, Ada, in his hat!” He had all our names in his hat. T ucked within the band were three small notes—one addressed to Ada, one to Richard, one to me... ... puts his own hat on, and conducts his prize into the streets, the trooper marching on as steadily as usual, though with his head less erect, and Mr. ...

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...ed to an English lord; who was first obliged to see the murder of her hus band and her child, and then was killed her self. When the King of the sea... ... of their country. Some of those who had been dispossessed of their lands, banded together in the North of England; some, in Scotland; some, in the th... ... lay in prison, dead, with cruel and disfiguring scars upon his eye lids, bandaged from his jailer’s sight, but on which the eternal Heavens looked d... ...t Fitz Stephen , and Maurice Fitz Gerald . These three, each with a small band of followers, took up Dermond’s cause; and it was agreed that if it pr... ...Save the Holy Sepulchre!’ and then all the soldiers knelt and said ‘Amen!’ Marching or Charles Dickens 121 encamping, the army had continually to str... ...e, the Barons assembled at Stamford, in Lincolnshire, in proud array, and, marching near to Oxford where the King was, delivered into the hands of Ste... ...r fol lowers, ‘The army of God and the Holy Church.’ Charles Dickens 137 Marching through the country, with the people thronging to them everywhere ... ...d fifty men with cross bows, and a stout force both of horse and foot, was marching towards him. ‘What care I?’ said the French Count. ‘The En glishm... ...people rose like one man. King Charles Dickens 161 Edward, with his army, marching from Worces ter to the Menai Strait, crossed it—near to where the...

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... had in the Em- press. Indeed, she was so proud and violent, that her hus- band would not come over to England to help her, but staid to govern Norman... ...s no king. Then he sent for more of the fierce soldiers, who went about in bands, ready to be hired, and prepared to take vengeance on the barons. The... ...and be their king. He came, and was received in London, while John and his bands of soldiers were roaming about the east- ern counties, wasting and bu... ...ving with her father in France, and she was always trying to have her hus- band set free, and brought back to his throne. In the mean- time, all Engla... ...had made friends with another prisoner, Robert Dudley, brother to the hus- band of Lady Jane Grey, and she continued to like him bet- ter than any oth... ...nce they saw sin in every amuse- ment. However, they kept their promise of marching into England, and some of the English cavaliers joined them; but O...

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... to rel- ish the compliment, Johnson said, ‘Nay, Sir, Alexander the Great, marching in triumph into Babylon, could not have desired to have had more s... ...‘No, Sir. When the King had said it, it was to be so. It was not for me to bandy civilities with my 187 Boswell’s Life of Johnson Sovereign.’ Perhaps... ...of the present age, in- sisting that they were more faithful to their hus- bands, and more virtuous in every respect, than in former times, because th... ...ular cases, but for men in gen- eral. A woman may be unhappy with her hus- band; but she cannot be freed from him with- out the approbation of the civ... ...llection, that Johnson was once drawn to serve in the militia, the Trained Bands of the City of London, and that Mr. Rackstrow, of the Museum in Fleet...

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...st of his friends whom he met. She was crossing from field to field with a band of school-children, gathering wild flowers for the morrow May-day. He ... ... they would be for returning it, at least partially, as though it could be bandied to and fro without emulgence of the po- etry; or they would be piti... ...e is a foun- tain of prodigious ascent. One is the unsounded purple sea of marching billows.” “A very fine distinction.” “I conceive you to be now com... ... (for purely undirected impulse all within us is not, though we may be eye-bandaged agents under direc- tion) it became necessary for an honourable ge... ...able fib. They were succeeding brilliantly when Vernon put a stop to it by marching him off to hard labour. Mrs. Mountstuart was led away to inspect t...

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...e white silk around his thick waist and the Bravewind insignia of a lion on a gold band around his neck. He admired the silk material that was creat... ...cross the large plateau, pale-skinned Aurans with long fair hair covered the lands marching in unison toward Alloria. Crude, sharp Auran ships traile...

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...– WALT WHITMAN OF LATE YEARS the name of Walt Whitman has been a good deal bandied about in books and magazines. It has become familiar both in good a... ...ly because it was easy to write, although not without recollections of the marching measures of some of the prose in our English Old Testament. Accord... ... work in 1431; on the last of April and on the 4th of May alone, sixty-two bandits swung from Paris gibbets.* A more confused or troublous time it wou... ...stry of the chapel, where they found a large chest, strengthened with iron bands and closed with four locks. One of these locks they picked, and then,... ...p. While he still lay in durance, another job was cleverly executed by the band in broad daylight, at the Augustine Monastery. Brother Guillaume Coiff... ... hanging matters in the past, and ex- plained the future intentions of the band. The scheme of the hour was to rob another Augustine monk, Robert de l...