Then followed some pleasant experiences, for the Colonist played the host to a distinguished multitude.
What, Eileen Russel, daughter of the colonist whose house was bombarded at the commencement of the war!
And in the centre of the group of horsemen was the English colonist who had made himself so agreeable to them the night before.
But they had never met one before, and to find him in the guise of a loyal colonist was a surprise, though, if they had only given the matter a thought, they would have seen that that was the most probable appearance he would assume.
He was a colonist made prisoner at the taking of Poblacion del Sur; indeed the pulquero in whose shop the gauchos were accustomed to drink their chicha.
Yes," a colonist remarked, "the communications are becoming so difficult that nothing can be sent by land.
You can't take my farm unless my fields are neglected," the colonist said comfortably.
It occurred to him that this colonist was a close neighbor of Lon Simpson.
Everybody was happy--except Carson--Because every colonist had already acquired enough thanar leaf to pay himself out of debt, and was working on extra capital.
Then he'd bought farm machinery from the Company--and a house--and very painstakingly had set out to be a coloniston his own.
It looks like every colonist on the planet will be able to pay off his debt to the Company and have credit left over.
Any time a colonist got obstinate he could be required to pay all he owed, on the dot.
The colonist who is permanently content with less has lost no small part of the spirit of his ancestors.
Yet, when all this allowance has been made, we may say that a colonist is perhaps the last man in the world to sneer at the public debt of England.
Scarcely could it be expected that the courts of worship themselves would escape defilement, from imperfections in the offerings, or unconscious disqualification in people or in priest.
The Noctian scheme Caius was going to discuss further on in this very book: and it is evidently to this later chapter, not to any separate work against Montanism, that he alludes.
He thinks that, in this and some other parts, our work is but a clumsy abstract of Hippolytus's original, which the citations of Peter enable us to recover and complete.
The answer will be found at length in the Lecture on the Atonement, where the Scriptural conceptions of Christ's death are expounded in detail.
Provisions and rents are cheap, and, under all circumstances, the work might be completed at half the expense it would cost in Europe.
Yes, they were telling us about that affair at Plymouth," the colonist said, quietly.
While mutually interrogating, one starts the suggestion that the whole affair may be a travestie--a freak of the younger, and more frolicksome members of the colonist fraternity.
He might be supposed on a visit to some of the huts appropriated to the humbler families of the colonist fraternity.
The colonist detested him for his exactions, while his soldiery were a scourge to every district they were quartered upon.
One day, as Champlain {46} worked in his garden, a colonist begged to speak with him.
To the British colonist it seemed natural and proper that all the southern end of the "Dark Continent" should some day federate itself under the Union Jack.
This was George Washington, a Virginian planter, who had seen much service in the last French war, and was almost the only colonist who possessed a good military reputation.
The colonistis only liable to be called out for active service during four months in the year; the other eight he has at his own disposal for the cultivation of his lands.
We were in the Perie bush, which had been a stronghold of Sandillis' men for months in 1878, and many a colonist was killed before the savages were dislodged.
The opinion they have of themselves is not to be crushed out by anything a colonist may have to say to them, and it is best for the newcomer to let them alone.
The Finn--a creature of a very different kind-- here meets him; constantly encroaching as a colonist on that territory which once belonged to the Laplander alone.
All admit this right; and just such a title has the Texan colonist to the soil of the Comanche.
The Indian ranges through and around them, wherever and whenever his inclination leads him; and only when some humiliating treaty has secured him a temporary respite from hostilities does the colonist enjoy tranquillity.
The average colonist regards a Mongolian with repulsion, a Negro with contempt, and looks on an Australian black as very near to a wild beast; but he likes the Maoris, and is sorry that they are dying out.
Nor has the colonist to consider how the making of chance acquaintances may affect his own social standing.
Just then a poor Italian colonist came up, hat in hand.
The colonistbrings his agricultural tackle along with him, and establishes his house (usually a most primitive affair), digs his well, and then proceeds to plough.
Until recent years land in the Argentine Republic has been ploughed in small areas by animal labour, the farmer or colonist often employing the members of his family to assist him, and thus saving expense.
Every colonist knows the value of alfalfa for feeding his animals, but it is not every colonist who knows why this plant occupies such a high place amongst feeding stuffs.
The colonist had begun to look quite pitifully at the buildings around him and the scurrying people.
The colonist took off his gloves, lit a cigarette.
The colonist put one hand to his mouth, his eyes wide and white.
To the colonist of the East and pioneer of the West, the white-tailed deer was an ever present help in time of trouble.
Thus, an original settler on the eastern bank of the Rhine was probably as cultivated and intelligent as a Roman colonist on the other side; but farther up, at the Weser and the Elbe, the old ferocity and roughness remained.
The peaceful colonist saw, in the suddenness of his deliverance, the foresight and benevolence of a divinity.
You see, there's no explaining to a dozen natives, who jump up and begin to throw spears and boomerangs at you, that you are a bad white fellow, and not a colonist on the search for fresh runs.
Certainly, if I were a colonist living in a lonely part of the country, I should object to transportation for, what with the natives and bush rangers and bad characters generally, no one can say their life is safe.
Godunof could not have played him false; the colonist had not returned to the junk with him the night before, but since he had received only a portion of the reward promised him, it was unlikely that he had betrayed the secret.
One of the few people Jack met along the unfrequented road he had chosen was a Russian colonist riding behind a cart laden with pine logs and driven by a coolie.
I doubt whether the launch would venture far into the open," said Godunof, the colonist who had carried the letters between Gabriele and her father.
Acting on the knowledge that Jack had bribed a Russian official, she succeeded in persuading a colonist about to re-embark for Sakhalin to carry a letter from her to Count Walewski.
It would be supposed that almost every colonist who has seen the rata in bloom would desire to possess a plant.
Every New Zealand colonist is familiar with this little owl, under the name of `morepork.
