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At 9 o'clock, the whole of India was a little to the west of us, and we saw, as in a map, that fertile and populous region, which has been so strangely reduced to subjection, by a company of merchants belonging to a country on the opposite side of the globea country not equal to one-fourth of it, in extent or population.
" Mr. Beaumaroy obediently entered, in the wake of Captain Alec Naylor, who duly presented him to Mrs. Naylor, adding that Beaumaroy had been kind enough to make the fourth in a game with the General, the Rector of Sprotsfield, and himself.
You must speak in one way to employers, in another to employees, possibly in a third to men thrown out of jobs, possibly in a fourth to the general public.
Pier at 8:45, and | | Thirty-fourth at 9 a.m., landing at Yonkers, (Nyack, and | | Tarrytown by ferry-boat), Cozzens, West Point, Cornwall, | | Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Bristol, Catskill, | | Hudson, and New-Baltimore.
The first deals with Germany, the second with Austria, the third with Hungary, and the fourth with Turkey.
"Rats" declared that he meant to conduct what he called a "house-to-house visitation," and accordingly, beginning at the bottom of the form, the first person he called upon was Grundy, a great lout of sixteen, who had been at the tail end of the Lower Fourth for the last twelve months.
It is bounded, on the one side, by the river Savannah, on the other by the sea, on the third by the river Ogechee, on the fourth by the river Ebenezer, and a line drawn from the river Ebenezer to the Ogechee.
And the fourth from the merchants, planters, mortgagees, annuitants, and others concerned in the West Indian colonies.
The fourth on the right of the dun was the black racer.
The enormous sums of money necessary to finance our allies as well as ourselves were promptly oversubscribed in a series of loans, the first and least of which ran into three billion dollars, the fourth into six billions, a sum larger than any single loan ever floated by any other nation.
So!" They found a fourth without difficulty and took possession of a table at the far end of the room.
He died in the year of our Lord's Incarnation, 1100, of his reign the thirteenth, on the fourth before the nones of August, aged above forty years.
The family were collected in one of the parlors on an extremely unpleasant day, the fourth after the departure of John, when the thin person of Johnson stalked in amongst them.
"Amma," says Rebecca, "in the little thatched house, the fourth beyond the school, I saw a boy whose head is covered with sores.
In St. Kitts the decrease for fourteen years had been but three-fourths per cent.; but here many of the observations would apply, which he had used in the case of Jamaica.
To every great man a peculiar mission is given,to one as lawgiver, to another as conqueror, to a third as teacher, to a fourth as organizer and administrator; and these missions, in their immense variety, constitute the life and soul of history.
The first canto of the last was written in November, 1818, the second in January, 1819, the third and fourth towards the close of the same year.
But after seeing that charge of the Twenty-fourth up the San Juan Hill, I should like the best in the world to have a Negro company.
The brazen voice of the bell had just proclaimed the eleven o'clock interval, when the Triple Alliance, hurrying with their companions of the Lower Fourth along the main corridor leading to the schoolroom, found that the passage was nearly blocked by a large crowd of boys standing round the notice-board.
" "His father's only a bookkeeper, too, and they live 'way up on a Hundred and Forty-fourth near Third.