About this time a robbery was committed in his house; he suspected one of the servants, and on his own authority put the man to the torture.
We had another instance, about this time, of the perfidy of Harlay.
About this time, the rains having set in heavily in Tennessee and North Alabama, making it difficult to move army transportation and artillery, General Thomas stopped the pursuit by his main force at the Tennessee River.
About this time (May and June, 1848), far more importance was attached to quicksilver.
When I assumed command of all the armies the situation was about this: the Mississippi River was guarded from St. Louis to its mouth; the line of the Arkansas was held, thus giving us all the North-west north of that river.
About this time, too, the men we had driven over the bank were seen in line up the river between us and our transports.
But, about this time, I was advised by General Grant (then investing Richmond) that the rebel Government had become aroused to the critical condition of things about Atlanta, and that I must look out for Hood being greatly reenforced.
About this time (January 25th), the weather cleared away bright and cold, and I inferred that the river would soon run down, and enable Slocum to pass the river before February 1st.
About this time we detected signs of activity on the part of the enemy.
I think Mr. Murdstone's means were straitened atabout this time; but it is little to the purpose.
By way of going in for anything that might be on the cards, I call to mind that Mr. Micawber, about this time, composed a petition to the House of Commons, praying for an alteration in the law of imprisonment for debt.
About this time, the enemy, having been at work on a mine for nearly a month, exploded it, and attacked our lines with a large force.
About this time Ex-President Davis was freed from the confinement of his prison at Fortress Monroe, where he had been for about two years.
About this time, I saw my father for the last time until after the surrender.
About this time I was given a gun of my own and was allowed to go shooting by myself.
About this period a song, which I admired greatly, was circulated abroad.
About this period I was the happy instrument in saving from death a young girl whose judges (as will be seen) were about to sentence her to be hanged without fully understanding whether she were innocent or guilty.
I think I must try and get down to the store to-morrow," he said, to his wife, about this time.
About this time, however, two or three of his temperance friends, who had heard of his fall, came to see him.
I met his wife one day, about this time, and, really, her distressed look gave me the heart ache.
Well, about this time, a man and an old woman came in the door.
About this time a blind man came by and stayed at the inn.
About this point (even though it lies outside of what I am dealing with now) I will tell of something that occurred to a farmer from my region.
About this business of beards, I remember what a friar told me once: In his order, and even in the most reformed orders, they wouldn't make anyone a Superior unless he had a good beard.
The dead face of the fog looking in at all three windows unreasonable increased a sense of riddle, and even terror, about this tall, narrow house we had entered out of the sky.
Nor is such a poetic fancy inappropriate, for there was something oddly romantic about this inrush of air and light after a long, leaden and unlifting day.
Something again far off, and yet familiar, pleased me about this way of invading the houses of men.
About this time my shoulder commenced to pain me fearfully, and it was a hard matter for me to lie still.
About this time I saw Jim coming, with six or eight men following him closely.
About this time it was that the Philistines made war against the Israelites, and pitched their camp at the city Aphek.
He was, about this time, invited both by Henry VIII.
About this time, there was a dreadful plague in Paris, which interrupted all intercourse between man and man, and left me as much to myself as I could desire.
Isaac of Holland wrote, it is supposed, about this time; and his son also devoted himself to the science.
He seems at about this time to have reached the conclusion that resistance could not last much longer; in fact, the greater part of the Sioux nation was already under government control.
About this time we young warriors began to watch the trails of the white men into the Black Hills, and when we saw a wagon coming we would hide at the crossing and kill them all without much trouble.
At about this time, the United States government took it upon itself to put an end to warfare between the Sioux and Ojibways.
They do so about this matter in order that the embalmers may not abuse their women, for they say that one of them was taken once doing so to the corpse of a woman lately dead, and his fellow-craftsman gave information.
As to the reason why the figure has this member larger than is natural and moves it, though it moves no other part of the body, about this there is a sacred story told.
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