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The very soldiers of the rebellious general fell away from him; and, after he had been a nominal Emperor for only three months and six days, he was assassinated by some of his own officers.
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In the first place, Love's young dream--he was barely thirty--came to a rude awakening, for, once married, it was impossible --though he had, in common with the majority of little men, a tolerably good opinion of himself--but that he should perceive that his wife did not care one brass farthing about him.
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Having been, for several years, a director on the Birmingham and London Railway, I felt some interest in these inquiries, and came to the conclusion, that there are several arrangements of economy, and some of convenience, in the construction and working of railways, which the English might borrow with advantage from the United States.
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He has, probably, escaped many such pangs as you are now feeling.
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If we put the animal on its back in a rock-pool we shall see the tube-feet at work.
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On the 10th, a great battle will be fought, which will begin at four of the clock in the afternoon, and last until nine at night, with great obstinacy, but no very decisive event.
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It was a small story-and-a-half frame building, on the western edge of the town, with a locust-tree in front, two lilacs inside the paling, and a wilderness of cabbage-stalks and currant-bushes in the rear.
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Religion is the force that relates action to life.
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So long as we remained in France his humour was like this, delicate and expansive, but an accidental allusion led us across the Channel when he changed.
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Simpson, puzzled, amazed, and a little scared at last, had barely time to notice the position before it dissolved.
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My friend, how long since did you sell that bag?
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On the evening of the day when she was buried, a rich man went, not to Pilate, but to the cure of the place.
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Gloom deepened and had no light to relieve it, men supped full of horrors--there was no slackening of the tension, no concession to overwrought nerves, no resting-place for the overwrought soul.
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And then he followed them with his swift, light step, and pausing upon the threshold, looked into the open room, his gaze first seeking Ruth.
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I have not said a word of that kind.
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The time of our visit was in the dry season, which lasts from October till April, and alternates with the wet one, from May till September.
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So the two installed themselves on each side of the stone knight's armed feet, which helped to support the tea-basket, and Lady Maud took out her spirit-lamp and a saucepan that just held two cups, and a tin bottle full of water, and all the other things, arranging them neatly in order.
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On other occasions he saw big scorpions and big hairy spiders trying to escape in the same way, and showing the same helpless inability to injure their ravenous foes, or to defend themselves.
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He then had recourse to the genie, who gave him another set of plates, and thus they lived for many years.
