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...alliance with Earth and the pair are assigned the mission of discovering the aliens' secrets. Crown Prince Dex LoudRoar is a Gatoan warrior and a royal with a terrible secret. His people wage a constant war against their enemy, the Lupinious empire. But the tide of battle is turning and his people seek help from a new source: the humans of Earth. With an interstell...

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...with the landing coordinates. Eight of our finest warriors will act as our royal escort when we meet them tomorrow.” “This is good news indeed, my so... ... the ship lay the well-guarded female sanctum. Females from the different royal bloodlines lounged about enjoying the humidity. Large wisdom trees gr... ... females and was irritated. Mixed bloods were not uncommon, but among the Royals they were rare. She had heard all the stories of the grand love of K... ...d attempt to leave the ship. No one, other than the King and his personal guards, are allowed planetside. Anyone violating that order shall visit Ma... ...avemore.” “Good. Things must go right. We need these humans. Make sure the guards keep an eye out for Lupines. I want to believe we made it here firs... ...ster Chief Leftclaw who remained on the scout ship with four of the eight guards chosen for the mission. The other four flanked him and his son. Rent... ... introduce my son, Crown Prince Dex LoudRoar. The others are our personal guards that will accompany us as we visit your planet.” Renten watched Larr... ...rms and gave Dex an intimidating glower. "Your Highness, I am head of the Royal Guard. If there is a threat, then I must be informed immediately. We... ... from the conference room to their temporary quarters. Larry left and the royal guards silently took their positions outside the door. Dex and his f...

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...rd, ready to start her new life. Nicole Zoltack 8 Chapter Two Two guards defended the drawbridge. Aislinn nodded at the first and procee... ...as accustomed to having everything her way that she hadn’t even fathomed that guards would stop her from entering the castle. King Patrick denying h... ...op her from entering the castle. King Patrick denying her request, aye. The guards preventing her the chance, no. “I request an audience with King... ...want with the king?” Aislinn blinked back harsh sudden tears. How dare those guards reduce me to the same level as that thief! I, Aislinn, am a no... ...as rich and silky. His hair was dark brown, almost black but his eyes were a royal blue, sparkling like gems. Aislinn knew immediately that she was... ... although she wasn’t certain since they all looked alike, with a smile. “His Royal Highness shall see you now.” She practically danced beside the t... ...xpected such a turnout for what could turn into an embarrassing event. “Your Royal Highness.” Aislinn curtseyed once she broke threw the crowd, det... ... ears. “But it takes more than love, desire, drive, and determination to be a royal knight. One needs skills, strength, and courage. You have alre... ... “Aye. Gongs are used for mealtimes. It is our duty to serve the nobles and royalty of the castle. Tonight, you shall just watch. I shall teach ...

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...Contents CHAPTER I: THE BLUE BALL ..............................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: ROYAL OAK.................................................................................................. 16 CHAPTER III: ?THE LIGHTED TREE? .............................................................................. 25 ...

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..., under the trees, it was very dark. But a lamp glimmered in front of the “Royal Oak.” This was a low white house sunk three steps below the highway. ... ... sort of weather-cock, there in the middle of the dark road out- side the “Royal Oak.” But as he turned, he caught sight of a third exit. Almost oppos... ...ll of a piece. At one end of the dark tree-covered Shottle Lane stood the “Royal Oak” public house; and Mrs. Houseley was certainly an odd woman. At t... ... cap. He was in uni- form. He was one of the few surviving officers of the Guards, a man of about forty-five, good-looking, getting rather stout. He s... ...t Battens,” said Lilly. 112 Aaron’s Rod “Yes! Awful mistake, changing the royal name. They were Guelfs, why not remain it? Why, I’ll tell you what Ba... ..., why not remain it? Why, I’ll tell you what Battenberg did. He was in the Guards, too—” The talk flowed on: about royalty and the Guards, Buckingham ... ...what Battenberg did. He was in the Guards, too—” The talk flowed on: about royalty and the Guards, Buckingham Palace and St. James. “Rather a nice sto... ...nd he took my hand. We weren’t much for showing feeling or anything in the guards. But he took my hand. And we climbed out to charge—Poor fellow, he w... ...—and I got the pins, you know, ready to pin him up properly, for the Scots Guards to bury him. And I thought he’d be stiff, you see. But when I took h...

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...aments were fought to the sound of trumpets and under the authority of the royal presence, but in every alley where there was room to cross swords, an... ...Station, the sight of the trains shooting out of its dark maw with the two guards upon the brake, the thought of its length and the many ponderous edi...

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...the banks of the river Bio-Bio. Amongst the prisoners made upon the routed Royalist troops there was a soldier called Gaspar Ruiz. His power- ful buil... ...ph Conrad great battle. And now, having been captured arms in hand amongst Royalists, he could expect no other fate but to be shot as a deserter. Gasp... ... gether with some other captured rebels, to march in the front rank of the Royal troops. A musket had been thrust into his hands. He had taken it. He ... ...round. But Gaspar Ruiz kept on repeating: “What should I desert for to the Royalists? Why should I desert? Tell me, Estaban!” He addressed himself ... ...ly to do so by the eloquent officer. Shortly afterwards a detachment of Royalist troops coming to pacify the district, burnt the ranche, car- ried ... ...become unbearable. The prisoners crowded towards the window, begging their guards for a drop of water; but the soldiers remained lying in indolent att...

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...rdi- nary infantry uniform, up to the door of the house, and the number of guards, servants, attendants, officials, secretaries, ministers and the lik... ...s arose as an irregular side development of the armoured-car branch of the Royal Naval Air Service work. The names most closely associ- ated with the ... ...ds like mites in an old cheese. The kings are still in their places, not a royal prince has been killed in this otherwise universal slaughter; when th...

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...e silk material that was created in a village not far from the castle and held the guards that wore it as his highest command. Once he dismissed the ... ...in the doorway and looked down the stone hall where Jacina stood among the line of guards against the wall. “Our medicine is beyond help for Sari... ... the slow death of my daughter. It’s not her time to die.” He looked up at his two guards. “We have to venture among the stars for help. Pray for gu... ... that sat so far away for so long. The ship held a small legion of a hundred guards armed with swords, shields, and armor of blue steel. He wa... ... ship had been ripped away to about 30 feet away from the cockpit. Too many of his guards lay dead in the back of the ship. “Saria!” He c... ...igh. Saria and Peronin stood on each side of Saron’s horse in their steel armor and royal blue robes. Elven war ships loomed in the distance against ...

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...wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is educated for the Khan's service -- Appointed go... ...-- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding thei... ...s country -- The city of Quinsai with its marvellously beautiful Palace -- The royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters of Fugiu -- G... ...the savage Islanders -- Reception to the King of Ternate -- Description of the royal barge -- Punctilious etiquette of the King's court -- The King's ... ...te -- An entertainment witnessed by 12,000 natives -- Initiatory ceremonies of royalty -- Burial alive of criminals -- Intercourse with Fijians -- War... ...buccaneers haunt the islets of the Caribbean, and as the ghost of Captain Kidd guards his hidden treasures on Long Island Sound. Again the spectre app... ...ly, a change of woman every night at free cost, for this is their tribute. The guards, every night, carry such to prison whom they find walking late; ... ... but it is equally certain that others, after receiving the money paid them as guards, turned and robbed the houses they had agreed to protect. In thi...

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... lovely girl of only seven teen or eighteen, to be stolen from one of the Royal Palaces, branded in the cheek with a red hot iron, and sold into sla... ... This was called ‘touching for the King’s Evil,’ which afterwards became a royal custom. You know, however, Who really touched the sick, and healed th... ...light, were the English on a hill; a wood behind them; in their midst, the Royal banner, representing a fighting war rior, woven in gold thread, ador... ...long, and now looked silvery in the moonlight, dashed forward to seize the Royal banner from the English Knights and soldiers, still faithfully collec... ... pretended to be a sorceress, to come and do a little en chantment in the royal cause. For this purpose she was pushed on before the troops in a wood... ... a great joker and a jolly companion, and made himself so popular with his guards that they pretended to know nothing about a long rope that was sent ... ... that was sent into his prison at the bottom of a deep flagon of wine. The guards took the wine, and Firebrand took the rope; with which, when they we... ... danger; and never lay down to sleep, even in his palace surrounded by his guards, without having a sword and buck ler at his bedside. To strengthen ... ...admitted to the presence of the Turkish Emir through long lines of Moorish guards, and that they found the Emir with his eyes seriously fixed on the p...

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...lcolm is to study at the Paris University, and Davie to be in the Scottish Guards to learn chivalry like his father. And the Leddy of Glenuskie— our C... ...with which the house of Somerset had thought fit to assert their claims to royalty. The cruel slaughter of her first husband, perhaps the only person ... ...umber of her daughters was oppressive, and that it was hard that while the royal branch had produced, with one exception, only useless pining maidens,... ...King-at-Arms was high-table com- pany, but he was absent, and the inferior royal pursuivant was entertaining two of his fellows, one with the Douglas ... ... enow to Sir Patrick to provide the gear and horses.’ ‘ And my gude wife’s royal kin are my guests till they win to their sister,’ added Sir Patrick. ... ...LADY OF GLENUSKIE, as she was commonly called, was a near kinswoman of the Royal House, Lilias Stewart, a grand- daughter of King Robert II., and thus... ...e empty hall. The porter let her pass unques- tioned, but there were a few guards at the great gateway, and one shouted, ‘Whither away, pretty Linette...

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...urbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the royalist leaders during this stormy period of modern history, he was wont to say in jest, ?I am one of the men who gave themselves to be killed on the steps of the throne.? And the pleasantry had some truth in it, as spoken b...

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... the Repub- lic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the royalist leaders during this stormy period of modern his- tory, he was wont... ... every Sunday, to cry “Vive le Roi” in the hall of the T uileries when the royal family passed through on their way to chapel; he craved the favor of ... ...vate audience. The audience, at once granted, was in no sense private. The royal drawing- room was full of old adherents, whose powdered heads, seen f... ...was certain to please him; but he neverthe- less replied with one of those royal pleasantries whose sweet- ness is more formidable than the anger of a... ...good the three hundred thou- sand livres I have spent, out and out, on the royal cause. I must speak to the King, face to face, in his own room.” This... ...e affair of the T rocadero a lieutenant-general with a com- mission in the Guards. The youngest, appointed sous-prefet, ere long became a legal offici...

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...s low as death. This have I rumor’d through the peasant towns Between that royal field of Shrewsbury And this worm eaten hold of ragged stone, Where H... ...get one on his cheek; and yet he will not stick to say his face is a face royal: God may finish it when he will, ’tis not a hair amiss yet: he may k... ...t when he will, ’tis not a hair amiss yet: he may keep it still at a face royal, for a barber shall never earn sixpence out of it; and yet he’ll be ... ... up. So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard; And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up, And howl’st to f... ...e and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of this action; That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love, We shall be winnow’d with so rough a wind Tha... ... from your awful bench, To trip the course of law and blunt the sword That guards the peace and safety of your person; Nay, more, to spurn at your mos...

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...e same time he held his drawn sword between the lovers, as if to emblem that royal authority which laid its temporal ban upon their contract. The earl... ...moynerie.— RABELAIS. THE E ARL OF H UNTINGDON, living in the vicinity of a royal forest, and passionately attached to the chase from his in fancy, ... ...o enter on the topic.” “Lord Fitzwater,” said Sir Ralph, “in obedience to my royal master, King Henry, I have been the unwilling instrument of frustra... ...d proceeded to London to report the results of his enterprise. Now Henry our royal king was very wroth at the earl’s evasion, and swore by Saint Thoma... ...n the stocks to dry. John swore to revenge horribly this flagrant outrage on royal prerogative, and to obtain pos session of the lady by force of arm... ...fused resemblance. He was, however, very soon fully awake to the fact of his guards calling on him to arm, which he did in haste, and beheld the machi... ... baron’s people had made a sortie on the other, and that they had killed the guards, and set fire to the machine, before the rest of the camp could co...

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...ression, hath miscarried. Trip and go, my sweet; deliver this paper into the royal hand of the king: it may concern much. Stay not thy compliment; I ... ...y love! These numbers will I tear, and write in prose. BIRON: O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid’s hose: Disfigure not his slop. LONGAVILLE: ... ...s grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder, and with his royal finger, thus, dally with my excre ment, with my mustachio; but, sw... ...RMADO .] DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal sweet breath as will utter a brace of words. [Converses apart with... ... as they say, to fortuna de la guerra . I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement! [Exit.] FERDINAND: Here is like to be a good presence ... ..., he was a man. But I will forward with my device. [To the PRINCESS .] Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing. PRINCESS: Speak, brave Hecto...

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... line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infan- try, two Companies... ...ession as to the number of the enemy’s forces north of Strasburg and Front Royal. Are the forces still moving north through the gap at Front Royal and... ...ohnson are pouring through the gap they made day before yesterday at Front Royal, making a dash northward. It will be a very valuable and very honorab... ...00 fell upon one regiment and two com- panies guarding the bridge at Front Royal, destroying it en- tirely; crossed the Shenandoah, and on the 24th (y... ...the Manassas Gap railroad, just now reports that Jackson is now near Front Royal, With 10,000, following up and sup- porting, as I understand, the for... ...ts to cut off his lines, de- stroy his communication, and capture his rear-guards, outposts, etc. The great object is to occupy the enemy to prevent h... ...tance, and her business would be to guard a particular harbor as a bulldog guards his master’s door. A. LINCOLN. 263 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln:...

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...uestioned their right to defend. The intimation is conveyed that the armed guards which we have placed on our merchant-ships will be treated as beyond... ...tly accredited to this Gov- 31 Woodrow Wilson ernment by the Imperial and Royal Government of Austria- Hungary; but that Government has not actually ...

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...a—at least with crowns on their heads—but a generous-minded member of some royal family received my letter of introduction. Ere the day closed I was a... ...hed from the “steel head” and the “silver side.” That is to say, they were royal salmon, and California and I dropped a tear over them, as monarchs wh... ...cle Sam. And that’s just where it is. But you was talking about your Horse Guards now?” 42 American Notes I explained briefly some peculiarities of e...

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... lift- ing up his voice, not exactly in the wilderness but at least in the Royal Institution, against the legal as compared with the creative or futur... ...e Kaiser and his eldest son, and the establishment of constitutional safe- guards for the future, that also would bring about an extraor- dinary modif... ...ntelligent adults if they are to hold against the political scoundrel, the royal adventurer, the fo- rensic exploiter, the enemies and scatterers of m... ...lised Germans and people of German origin in Britain—below the rank of the Royal Fam- ily, that is—and in making enduring bad blood between them and t... ...Germans to the third and fourth generation (save and except the Hanoverian royal family domiciled in Great Britain) are a vile, treacherous, and im- p... ...papers were by no means sugges- tive of an abject worship of authority and royalty for their own sakes. The teaching of all forms of morality and sent...

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... tall, fair-haired man that I afterwards learned was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen wielding spades and pickaxes. Stent was giving ... ...ments of the troops; their idea was that a dispute had arisen at the Horse Guards. The ordinary sapper is a great deal better educated than the common... ...be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won’t be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants. If it’s amu...

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...votre gant. Je suis Anglais. La raison est suffisante.’ And imagine French Guardsmen reading it! Mr. Beauchamp knew the virtue of punctiliousness in e... ...have given him anything— the last word in favour of the Country versus the royal Mar- tyr, for example, had he insisted on it. She gathered, bit by bi... ...h face con- cerning the declaration of war, and told with approval how the Royal hand had trembled in committing itself to the form of signature to wh... ...sin, Cecil Baskelett, a captain in England’s grand reserve force—her Horse Guards, of the Blue division—helped Everard Romfrey to laugh over them. It ... ...What writing! He was uplifted as ‘The heroical Commander Beauchamp, of the Royal Navy,’ and ‘Commander Beauchamp, R.N., a gentleman of the highest con... ...f! I had to persuade our constituents that you, Commander Beauchamp of the Royal Navy, and the great family of the Earls of Romfrey, one of the heroes... ...the Earls of Romfrey, one of the heroes of the war, and the recipient of a Royal Humane Society’s medal for saving life in Bevisham waters, were some-... ... Nevil Beauchamp save a man from drowning, 118 Beauchamp’s Career off the guardship, in exactly the same place?” And next day she sent me a cheque fo...

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..., and after dinner a man named Atkins called in. He is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and a pleasant, talkative man. He was on friendly terms with my... ... open question in entomology. There were memorable occasions. At times the Royal Entomological Society meetings resembled nothing so much as the Chamb... ...r for fear their bright newness should be tarnished, and she tacked little guards over the cuffs and elbows, and wherever the suit was most likely to ... ...t, and of the supreme occasions when some day it might be worn without the guards, with- out the tissue paper on the buttons, utterly and delightfully...

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...ement of political intrigues; they were a part of the fatal inheritance of royal houses; and in the family of Herodias nothing was more common. Then s... ...nann then poured forth invectives against him for pre- suming to aspire to royalty. “There is no other king than the Eternal God!” he cried; and he cu... ...ng him to the impious Ahab. Antipas broke the slender cord attached to the royal seal that he wore around his neck, and throwing the seal into the pit... ... slowly through the court, and calling him to his side, he pointed put the guards established by Vitellius, saying: “They are stronger than I! I canno... ...great sword, glowing and quivering like a flame. He appealed to two of the guards, who had entered the hall with him, to corroborate his words. But th...

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.... At the Great Slave, Hudson Bay dogs were purchased, and the fleet sank to the guards with its added burden of dried fish and pem mican. Then canoe an... ...azes countered as they shook beneath their blankets with fingers on the trigger guards. What with the Fear of the North, the mental strain, and the rav... ...when we who hailed from Yeddo Bay rose in the night and took the guns from the guards, we went to the north. And the land was very large, with plains,... ...w from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman. “Mebbe they’ll bite in the early morning,” he muttered,... ...h kindly eyes and masterful ways, and strid ing with a consciousness of crude royalty in his carriage. “Tell him that I will come,” was El Soo’s answ... ...pressed by her. She was not Freddie Drummond’s sort at all. What if she were a royal bodied woman, graceful and sinewy as a panther, with amazing blac... ...ke a modern working man going to his machine grind, but in the old, primitive, royal, animal way, by 318 JACK LONDON fighting for it. “I gotter do ’im... ... the others ran after them. “So it was that the tribe was left without eyes or guards. We had not the strength of sixty. We had no strength at all. So... ...tting food for the feast. And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar cane joints for the roasting, from opihis to limu, ...

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... manhood, nor good fel lowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings. PRINCE HENRY : Well the... ...omes from your father. PRINCE HENRY : Give him as much as will make him a royal Henry IV, Part One , Act II, scene iv 32 man, and send him back agai... ...h, and leave ‘in sooth,’ And such protest of pepper gingerbread, To velvet guards and Sunday citizens. Come, sing. LADY PERCY : I will not sing. HOTS... ...ash bavin wits, Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state, Mingled his royalty with capering fools, Had his great name profaned with their scorns ... ...ise, when to pay. My father and my uncle and myself Did give him that same royalty he wears; And when he was not six and twenty strong, Sick in the wo...

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... proofs and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contem... ...d been merely bringing stores to the station of Paita; and no corps of the royal armies was readily to be reached, whilst some- thing must be done at ... ...yours and mine. Bless you, Sir, she would scorn to look at us. I tell you, royalties are languishing to see her, or soon will be. But how can this com... ...the ship’s barge, she was rowed to the piers of Cadiz by barge- men in the royal liveries—when she saw every ship, street, house, convent, church, cro... ...ts, spurs, sabre, and sabretache; in fact, anything that she and the Horse Guards might agree upon. Consequently, reader, remember for your life never... ..., with equal pretensions. Zebek-Dorchi was a direct descendant of the same royal house as himself, through a different branch. On public grounds, his ... ...diminishing the chances of escape, and perhaps, also, as the misery of the guards gradually withdrew their attention from all minor in- terests to the... ...pose. But his resignation to the appointments of Heaven, in dismissing his guards, as feeling that against a danger so domestic and so mysterious, all... ...ounds shall have ceased except those from female eyes— for which the Horse Guards is too little advanced in civiliza- tion to make any allowance at al...

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...he same. But he had turned right about, and appeared transfixed and like a royal beast angry, with his wound. If ever there was love at first sight, a... ...ey had been collectors of beetles and butterflies, and the flying by of a ‘royal-mantle,’ the purple butterfly grandly fringed, could still remind Car... ...s resolving to have a residence here, to buy up half the valley—erecting a royal palace—and mark- ing out the site—raving about it in the wildest lang... ...n. We slept here last night, you know. It ‘s a mile and a quarter from the Royal Sovereign to the field of glory. Pretty well time to start. Brailston... ...er elbow. After, giving hurried directions to Rundles, the landlord of the Royal Sovereign, Fleetwood took the reins, and all three gentlemen touched ... ... to speak of lady. He and a mate guard the house. An old woman cooks.’ ‘He guards the house, and he gave you a pass?’ ‘Not he. His pride’s his obedien... ...sunrise, driving back to town out of Windsor,—a dance, the officers of the Guards,— and my lord’s trumpeter at the back of the coach blowing notes to ...

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... pierc’d facades! you roofs! You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards! You windows whose transparent shells might expose so much! You do... ...o England, They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault, Dig out King George’s coffin, unwrap him quick from the grav... ...orming from his simplicity the poor man’s wages, For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh’d at in the breaking, Then in their power... ...e hair drooping dishevel’d round her shoulders, At her feet fallen an unused royal harp, Long silent, she too long silent, mourning her shrouded hope ... ... the like whereof was never heard, Reaching the far off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas’d their pacing, Making the hearer’s pulses stop for ecst... ...iest great companions, Venerable priestly Asia sails this day with thee, And royal feudal Europe sails with thee. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 469 ... ...!) Put on the old ship all her power to day! Crowd top sail, top gallant and royal studding sails, Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting penn...

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...s—the set of public buildings which is now being erected on the rock which guards, as it were, the town from the river. How much of the excellence of ... ... possible danger; whereupon those who accompanied the prince requested his Royal Highness to forbear. I fear that, in these careful days, crowned head... ...ortation of slaves, her breaches of treaty, and the bribery of her all but royal governor, are known to all men. But Canada is not dishonest; Canada i... ...illed less respectably. It is but an industrious idleness, an attempt at a royal road to information, that habit of attending lectures. Let any man or...

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...isted that he fly 'First Class'. He felt as though he were being treated like royalty. The Embassy had sent a black limousine to pick him up at the ... ...ou to catch the next plane back to Rome. Come to the rear of the Vatican, the guards will let you in, use the private elevator and come to my quarter... ...ooked out over the city of Rome, it's lights shimmered like jewels set into a royal crown of seven diadems against a black, velvet night. Others on ... ...streets that led to the rear of the Vatican. After identifying himself to the guards, he was shown to a door that led to the Pope's private elevator... ...rying Lupos, a special kind of sawed-off shot gun, guarded the perimeter. The guards were courteous to Antonio, tipping their hats as he drove throu... ...o it like a drowning man would a lifeline. Antonio wondered why none of the guards had burst into the room. The roar from the face of death had be... ...tonio nodded his understanding. When they arrived at the Vatican, the Swiss Guards quickly ushered them into the Pope's private elevator. "I feel ...

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...erils of childbirth”; and the sparrows who had found their way through the guards behind the glass windows chirped above the faded gilt and alabaster ... ...ouring for vir- gin stuff. “Anything to finish the job!” said the badgered Guards. “Hang up, some of you, and make wax for these slack-jawed sisters.”... ...e truth,” said the Queen’s voice behind them. They had not heard the heavy royal footfall which sets empty cells vibrating. Sacharissa offered her foo... ..., and, worst of all, through the babies in their cradles, till the Sweeper Guards spent half their time tossing out useless little corpses. The lines ... ... very shame, the bees never went there. How in that ruin she blocked out a Royal Cell of sound wax, but disguised by rubbish till it looked like a kop... ...g bees to educate certain new-born bees in the almost lost art of mak- ing Royal Jelly. How the nectar for it was won out of hours in the teeth of chi... ...teeth of chill winds. How the hidden egg hatched true— no drone, but Blood Royal. How it was capped, and how des- 63 Kipling perately they worked to ... ...-comb. “Down and out!” she called across the brown breadth of it. “Nurses, guards, fanners, sweepers—out! Never mind the babies. They’re better dead.—... ...s just the right stamp for cotton-growers. What’s Mother playing?—’Once in royal’?” The organ that had been crooning as happily as a woman over her ba...

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... trait, but the condition of it seems to be justified by hints in the Port Royal memoirs, respecting Maubuisson and others which Mere Angelique reform... ...Merle, belonging to an unfortunate Angevin noble, who had fallen under the royal displeasure, and they had enjoyed court favour up to the present gene... ...uguenot errors. All that could be done was to hasten the departure ere the royal mandate could arrive. A little Norman sailing vessel was moored two e... ...dderley,’ said Berenger; ‘but there will be rare doings to be seen at this royal wedding, and maybe I shall break a lance there in your honour, Lucy.’... ...o enter at once into what caused so much excitement, gesture, and wit. The royal marriage seemed doubtful—the Pope refused his sanction; nay, but mean... ...n stair- cases and in passages; and to Berenger it seemed as if the King’s guards and Monsieur’s gentlemen must have come in in equal numbers to balan... ...nce will be that I shall unwillingly be forced to let Captain Delarue post guards at the outlets of this tower. A room beneath is prepared for your gr... ...in to her, and those— those, she says, are heirlooms; and, poor child, she guards them almost as jealously as her infant, around whom she has fas- ten... ...ear ourselves upon oath over the corpse, and all the household and our own guards can bear witness.’ ‘The witnesses are here,’ said Narcisse, pointing...

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...And then you shall be taught obedience to my reign. Hence! to your lord my royal mandate bear The realms of ocean and the fields of air Are mine, not... ...n time, with kindly throes, Shall at a birth two goodly boys disclose. The royal babes a tawny wolf shall drain: Then Romulus his grandsire’s throne s... ...wonder and surprise, The beauteous Dido, with a num’rous train And pomp of guards, ascends the sacred fane. Such on Eurotas’ banks, or Cynthus’ height... ...h wand’ring foliage and rich flow’rs entwine. But, far above the rest, the royal dame, (Already doom’d to love’s disastrous flame,) With eyes insatiat... ... the light, And on the shaded ocean rush’d the night; Our men, secure, nor guards nor sentries held, But easy sleep their weary limbs compell’d. The G... ...8 Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam’s royal name, More than enough to duty and to fame. If by a mortal hand my fa... ... can be made, When heav’n’s propitious pow’rs refuse their aid! Behold the royal prophetess, the fair Cassandra, dragg’d by her dishevel’d hair, Whom ... ...s, come tumbling from on high, The marks of state and ancient royalty. The guards below, fix’d in the pass, attend The charge undaunted, and the gate ... ...hus plies, And all his father sparkles in his eyes; Nor bars, nor fighting guards, his force sustain: The bars are broken, and the guards are slain. I...

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...Esmond, on his part, was conspicuous for his attachment and loyalty to the Royal cause and person: and the King being at Oxford in 1642, Sir George, w... ...e to call his infidelity; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, wh... ...y; Jack Churchill, Frank Esmond’s lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot-guards, getting the company which Esmond vacated, when he left the Court an... ... of honor in those days; and gentlemen of good birth and lineage thought a royal blot was an ornament to their family coat. Frank Esmond retired in th... ...g, whilst his daughter was in favor, Lord Castlewood, who had spent in the Royal service his youth and fortune, did not retrieve the latter quite, and... ...t of which rumor had very much exaggerated. Madame Isabel was said to have Royal jewels of great value; whereas poor Tom Esmond’s last coat but one wa... ... sir, if you please. When you address a gentle- man of his Majesty’s Horse Guards, be pleased not to be so familiar.” “I didn’t know, sir,” said the l... ...t, I wish Joseph Addison was here!” Though the troopers of the King’s Life-Guards were all gentlemen, yet the rest of the gentlemen seemed ignorant an... ... old friend Dick the Scholar, who had got promotion, and was Cornet of the Guards, and had wrote a book called the “Chris- tian Hero,” and had all the...

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...arevo-Zaymishche he rode his light bay bobtailed ambler accompanied by his Guards, his bodyguard, his pages, and aides-de-camp. Berthier, his chief of... ...low me to act as your escort.” And bowing respectfully, as if to a lady of royal blood, he moved toward the door. Rostov’s deferential tone seemed to ... ...wo valets rapidly dressed His Majesty, and wearing the blue uniform of the Guards he went with firm quick steps to the reception room. De Beausset’s h... ...usset had to mount. When Napoleon came out of the tent the shouting of the Guards before his son’s portrait grew still louder. Napo- leon frowned. “Ta... ...my’s battery, against which will operate: 24 guns of the artillery of the Guards 30 guns of Campan’s division and 8 guns of Friant’s and Dessaix’s d... ..., Rapp. I have always said so and I am beginning to experience it. But the Guards, Rapp, the Guards are intact?” he remarked inter- rogatively. 132 W... ...d age, would have been devoted, in company with the Empress and during the royal apprentice- ship of my son, to leisurely visiting, with our own horse...

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...ou to say a word to the Em- peror, and then he would be transferred to the Guards at once?” said she. “Believe me, Princess, I am ready to do all I ca... ...nnections. She had now come to Petersburg to procure an appointment in the Guards for her only son. It was, in fact, solely to meet Prince V asili tha... ...er’s memory, I will do the impossible—your son shall be transferred to the Guards. Here is my hand on it. Are you satisfied?” “My dear benefactor! Thi... ...” He turned to go. “W ait—just a word! When he has been transferred to the Guards...” she faltered. “Y ou are on good terms with Michael Ilarionovich ... ...the arms of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the royalist emigrant. “That is doubtful,” said Prince Andrew . “Monsieur le Vi... ... desperate efforts to com- bat it. Since the intimacy of his wife with the royal prince, Pierre had unexpectedly been made a gentleman of the bedchamb... ...k his head, with its long hair curling to his shoulders, in a majestically royal manner, and looked inquiringly at the French colo- nel. The colonel r... ...kingly condescension. As soon as the King began to speak loud and fast his royal dignity instantly forsook him, and without noticing it he passed into... ...mes he had spent with him in Naples. Then suddenly , as if remembering his royal dignity, Murat solemnly drew himself up, assumed the pose in which he...

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...k his head, with its long hair curling to his shoulders, in a majestically royal manner, and looked inquiringly at the French colonel. The colo- nel r... ...kingly condescension. As soon as the King began to speak loud and fast his royal dignity instantly forsook him, and without noticing it he passed into... ... their masters. And he went on to inquiries about the Grand Duke and the *”Royalty has its obligations.” 18 War and Peace – Book Nine state of his he... ...imes he had spent with him in Naples. Then suddenly, as if remembering his royal dignity, Murat solemnly drew himself up, assumed the pose in which he... ... disillusionment at Austerlitz, where he had ridden out at the head of the Guards, in his casque and cavalry uniform as to a review, expecting to crus... ... rapturous exclamations were heard from all sides. “Y es, most precious… a royal word,” said Count Rostov, with a sob. He stood at the back, and, thou...

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...And thoughtest thou to fare Home from the war alive, to bear with thee Right royal gifts from Priam the old king, Thy guerdon for slain Argives? Ha, ... ...fraid, and, though the shaft Stands in his heart, yet faileth not in him His royal courage, but with terrible glare Roll his fierce eyes, and roar his... ...de Eurypylus. That hero’s host encamped Without the city, where the T rojan guards Kept watch. Their armour laid they on the earth; Their steeds, ye... ...re poured. The Greeks slept in the plain Before the ships, by ever changing guards Quintus Smyrnaeus The Fall of Troy 130 Watched; for they dread... ...herein thine heart may joy Through all thy days; and always in my tent Shall royal honour at the feast be thine.” He spake, and gave the hero those fa... ...alace. Onward then to the gates Sped they,] and swiftly slew the slumbering guards, [Then held the gate towers till their friends should come.] Fast ... ... Of husband, child, and father, Andromaehe Longed sore to die. Yea, for the royally born Better it is to die in war, than do The service of the thral... ...le ‘Wildered from war and fire she fled. They saw In that red glare a woman royal tall, Imperial moulded, and they weened that this Was Priam’s queen...

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... two decorations for the Finnish war also. In 1809 he was a captain in the Guards, wore medals, and held some special lucrative posts in Petersburg. T... ...er, Anatole Kuragin,” she said, indicating a handsome officer of the Horse Guards who passed by them with head erect, looking at something over the he... ...de desperate efforts to combat it. Since the intimacy of his wife with the royal prince, Pierre had unex- pectedly been made a gentleman of the bedcha...

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...unity of gratifying it was not long wanting. 71 Friedrich Schiller In the Royal Letter which the Bohemians had extorted from Rodolph II., as well as ... ...towns, because they looked upon the ecclesiastical property as part of the royal demesnes. In the little town of Klostergrab, subject to the Arch- bis... ... of May, 1618, the deputies ap- peared armed, and in great numbers, at the royal palace, and forced their way into the hall where the Commissioners St... ...of state, and all the impe- rial revenues, took into their own service the royal functionaries and the soldiers, and sum- moned the whole Bohemian nat... ...al manifesto. These various steps were taken for the preser- vation of the royal authority and the laws — the language of all rebels till fortune has ... ...tructed by the ablest masters. His antichamber was protected by fifty life guards. His table never consisted of less than 100 covers, and his senescha... ...nstein. Not content with sparing his es- tates on his march, he now placed guards over his palace, in Prague, to prevent the plunder of any of his eff... ...nd death! To seize such a man, like a common criminal, in the midst of the guards by whom he was surrounded, and in a city ap- parently devoted to him...

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...eel how it is; but what’s all this—sheer robbery! If you please, could not guards be placed if only to let us close the shop….” Several shopkeepers cr... ...rb to the Kremlin, and was now sitting in a very gloomy frame of mind in a royal study in the Kremlin, giving detailed and exact orders as to measures...

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... things, taking away his passport.With help from a dissident member of the royal family, he managed to get out of the country under the pretext of att... ...rough the basic plan on February 13. One group of tribals would subdue the guards, enter Tarnak Farms stealthily, grab Bin Ladin, take him to a desert... ...their friends can help them change. 20 There are signs that Saudi Arabia’s royal family is trying to build a consensus for political reform, though un... ... ouchstone, 2001), pp. 80–82. On aid provided by a dissident member of the royal fam- ily , see Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, Sept. 27, 2... ...ebarked from the plane and were met by local police.Their private security guards were paid, and the police then escorted the three Saudi passengers t... ...a role as well in flights involving government officials or members of the royal family. State coordinated with the FBI and FAA to allow screening by ...