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THE ACCIDENTS OF LIFE"SOME MEN ACHIEVE GREATNESS, AND SOME HAVE GREATNESS THRUST
As old age creeps on, the bark becomes rougher and grayer, the branches lose their exact regularity, many are snow-bent or broken off, and the main axis often becomes double or otherwise irregular from accidents to the terminal bud or shoot; but throughout all the vicissitudes of its life on the mountains, come what may, the noble grandeur of the species is patent to every eye.
Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization.
While a scholar there he met with a severe accident on the 27th January, 1890.
Will Rose, looking by accident at his feet, saw him scowling furiously; but on his showing no consciousness, his lordship resumed his easy manner.
The story told of the accident by which the discovery was made is as follows: Koster, as he was one day walking in a wood adjoining the city, about the year 1420, cut some letters on the bark of a beech tree, from which he took impressions on paper for the amusement of his brother-in-law's children.
"All the same it was an accident with an ugly look about it, and I quickly realized that I was in an equivocalnot to say dangerous, situation.
That did not surprise me, but I was not prepared to hear that the women do not have so many accidents as men, or break the machines so often.
Doubtless, we answer, the American organization is more easily disordered than the English,just as a railway-train running at forty miles an hour is more liable to accident than one proceeding at twenty.
All the same, it might be worth while to get some particulars about the accident from the Ardrigh's owners.
"An accident for which he was in no way responsible," said Godfrey promptly.
She seemed to him a native violet, that had been transplanted by some rude accident into that exotic and artificial hotbed.
Mrs. Monroe was excessively agitated,her faculties lost in a maze, like one beholding an accident without power of thought or motion.
I had a slight accident after my last letter; but it produced no bad consequences: it only made a little more care necessary.
The rapidity and the order with which this torch-light scene was acted, without a single accident among the numerous doers, has excited the wonder of almost all its early historians.
She goes for a sail on the river and the party meets with several accidents before finally having a wreck.
Just as the last of this work was being done Pennington, as an apparent accident due to excess of zeal, dropped the red-hot end of his implement across the toe of Darrin's left shoe.
This is the best treatment for these accidents during the first three or four days.
Several village people having heard of the accident through Hollis and the doctor had stopped at the door to inquire with a sympathetic modulation of voice if she were any better.
And therefore, it must show and mean not merely some outward accident about Him, something which He seemed to be, or looked like, in men's eyes: no, the Name of Jesus must mean what the Lord was in the sight of His Father in Heaven; what He was in the eternal purpose of God the Father; what He was, really and absolutely, in Himself; it must mean and declare the very substance of His being.
I have sent home more than $4000 worth of oil, and I hope my owner will forgive the accident off Currituck, on account of this run of good luck.
But she wasn't home when I got to her house, so I started right down here; an' they was an accident up on the road, an' the train couldn't go no further, an' so I walked inI was afraid I wouldn't get here in time 'less I did.
We had accidents between wind and water, enough to have made me considerate for others, Lu said; but I don't see that I'm any less careful not to have my bones spilt in the flood than ever I was.
"I do not think we ought to take advantage of an accident like this....
The hurry of the scene had driven the circumstance entirely out of my mind, till, going by accident near the apartment, the whole affair, together with the singular and equivocal behaviour of Williams, rushed at once upon my recollection.