...hire to leave the plough for the Pike, and despatching, from time to time, small detachments of recruits to extend Marlborough’s lines, and to act as ... ...orses, hunting wild boars, swindling tenants, living in a great house with small means; obliged to be sordid at home all the year, to be splendid for ... ...step the events of his history. Here, however, was Gustavus Adolphus, in a small inn, in a small village of W arwickshire, on an autumn evening in the... ...ted 8 Catherine: A Story at a round table before the kitchen-fire while a small groom of the establishment was leading up and down on the village gre... ... minx with whom either had ever had to do, she was, after receiving a very small portion of literary instruc- tion (indeed it must be stated that the ... ...houghts in her bosom: it was a sad task to her to look either backwards or forwards. Whither was she to fly? How to live? What good chance was to be- ...

...an honest and pain dealing Man, I went the V oyage with him, and carried a small Adventure with me, which by the disinterested Honesty of my Friend th... ...ade him sheer off again, after returning our Fire, and pouring in also his small Shot from near 200 Men which he had on Board. However, we had not a M... ...tely fell to cutting and hacking the Decks and Rigging. We ply’d them with Small shot, Half Pikes, Powder Chests, and such like, and clear’d our Dec... ...Room for him to lye, with a Slave or two, and a Table to eat on, with some small Lockers to put in some Bottles of such Liquor as he thought fit to dri... ...ith two Bullets, and the third, for we had three Pieces, I loaded with five smaller Bullets. I took the best aim I could with the first Piece to have sh... ...n after me again, and twice more I was lifted up by the Waves, and carried forwards as before, the Shore being very flat. The last Time of these two ha... ...e more of the rest made the same way; I turn’d to Friday, and bid him step forwards, and fire at them; he understood me immediately, and running about ...

...xford with the Court, or in quarters in the remoter parts of the country , small detachments excepted, who did duty at the T ower and at Whitehall, an... ... full of vinegar, which he kept for that purpose. The buyer carried always small money to make up any odd sum, that they might take no change. They ca... ...had opened a door belonging to the office. In the middle of the yard lay a small leather purse with two keys hanging at it, with money in it, but nobo... ...est men, he gave them the horse for the carrying their baggage; also for a small matter of three days’ work that his man did for him before he went, h... ...w he said he was no more a biscuit- baker, but a trooper. The joiner had a small bag of tools such as might be useful if he should get any work abroad... ...And now they had thoughts of going over the river in the marshes, and make forwards to Epping Forest, where they hoped they should get leave to rest. ... ...her end; so, while the plague went on raging from west to east, as it went forwards east, it abated in the west, by which means those parts of the tow...

...tly made up the packet, and placed it in the little hand. She paid for her small purchase, and with a farewell glance of her lustrous eyes, she left h... ...raised, not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vesp... ...hat boat—slim, shining, and shooting through the water like a pike after a small fish—was a caique from Tophana; it had distanced the Sultan’s oarsmen... ...f the ancient race. Y ou have your vulgar measurement for great things and small. Y ou call a thousand pounds respectable, and a shekel despicable. Ps... ...ily. “Is she dead? Is she ill? Hath she the measles? Nay, hath she had the small-pox, and lost her beauty? Speak; speak, boy!” cried the knight, wroug... ... up—then made as if she would sit down—then moved backwards— then tottered forwards—then tumbled into my—Psha! why recall, why attempt to describe tha... ...Vizier, who lay on the plain, howling. “Whish! bang! pop! Hurrah!—charge!— forwards!—cut them down!—no quarter!” I saw—yes, no, yes, no, yes!—I saw re... ...ost dreadful howl that ever was heard, the National Guard was seen to rush forwards wildly, and with immense velocity, towards the foe. The fact is, t...