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Though I experienced somewhat of my former sensations, when I again found myself off the solid ground, yet I soon regained my self-possession; and, animated with the hope of seeing my children and country, with the past success of our voyage, and (I will not disguise it,) with the distinction which I expected it would procure me from my countrymen, I was in excellent spirits.

A few wise and noble spirits, true Faithfuls and Great Hearts, led a despondent people out of the Slough of Despond till their feet were again on firm ground and their faces turned towards the Delectable Mountains of peace, justice, and liberty.

Let others think as they will, for me the monastery of St Hugh in the Weald is holy ground.

But that Sequoia can and does grow on as dry ground as any of its present rivals, is manifest in a thousand places.

After so many encounters of a decidedly hostile nature, it was difficult to meet their old enemy on neutral ground without some feeling of embarrassment.

She certainly found him strike the hour again, with these vulgarities of toneforms of speech that her mother had anciently described as by themselves, once he had opened the whole battery, sufficient ground for putting him away.

Like Tortulf the Forester, they learned "how to strike the foe, to sleep on the bare ground, to bear hunger and toil, summer's heat and winter's frost,how to fear nothing but ill-fame."

There were many discussions, both public and private, before the plenipotentiaires were named, and a great unwillingness on the part of many very intelligent and patriotic Frenchmen to see the country launching itself upon dangerous ground and a possible conflict with Bismarck.

They stumbled along as best they could, over the rough ground, and through the tangle brush, towards the river.

As he stumbled up the slope he came to a little burial-ground.

Beyond, and extending over all the middle ground, are somber swaths of pine, interrupted by huge swelling ridges and domes; and just beyond the dark forest you see the monarchs of the High Sierra waving their magnificent banners.

I could not see anything to shoot atonly lithe shades and mottled shadows, for the torch lay on the wet ground, and was sputtering to its end.

The surmise of Bacon, grounded upon the error of Speed, is clinched into the positive assertion of Hume as to a popular belief for which there is not the slightest ground.

He made a final tour about the broken ground, but there was no sound or suspicion of Dick.

It was heavy work, too, for infantry who not only had to carry the weight of mud-caked boots, but were handicapped by continual slipping upon the rocky ground.

But there is one circumstance not so easy to be accounted for: it is pretended that Richard, displeased with the indecent manner of burying his nephews, whom he had murdered, gave his chaplain orders to dig up the bodies, and to inter them in consecrated ground; and as the man died soon after, the place of their burial remained unknown, and the bodies could never be found by any search which Henry could make for them.

Ferns upon the hills abound; Ke and e in marshy ground.

There twines a joy with every care That springs within this sacred ground; But, oh! to give what I have found Doth thrill me with divine despair.

I said as much to Tonnison, and he agreed that there certainly seemed reasonable grounds for my belief.

Will you do this?" "Oh, yes, sah; 'deed, 'deed I will, sah!" Jack crawled up the bank, keeping in the shadow of the uneven ground, until he reached a point whence he could make out the blockhouse.

and so braw he will bundle the straw The Little Old Man of the Barn. YON FAIRY DOG. 'Twas bold MacCodrum of the Seals, Whose heart would never fail, Would hear yon fairy ban-dog fierce Come howling down the gale; The patt'ring of the paws would sound Like horse's hoofs on frozen ground, While o'er its back and curling round Uprose its fearsome tail.

Jack would have written with better grounds for his solemnity if he had waited until this evening; but now there was no chance.

Troops had no other protection from the damp ground than a single wet blanket."

Presently it ceased, and with labouring breath we walked a step or two in flat ground.

It is not my intention to wander over all the debatable ground of the Cabot voyages, where every circumstance bristles with conflicting theories.

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