For want of understanding their language I could come at no knowledge of their religion or worship; nor did I see any idols among them, or any adoration paid to the sun or moon.
At the place where she usually sat, however, had been laid down a letter, and Lady Malcolm, who entered the room first, wondered from whom it could come.
He wondered how nearly he could come to breaking them and escape.
In "Life on the Mississippi" we read that the author ran away, vowing never to return until he could come home a pilot, shedding glory.
He could come back to his people with a good account of his absence and a good heart for the future.
He could come and go as he chose; he never had to work or go to school; he could do all the things, good and bad, that other boys longed to do and were forbidden.
Lee, if he did not choose to follow me, might, with his shorter distance to travel and his bridges over the Chickahominy and the James, move rapidly on Butler and crush him before the army with me could come to his relief.
Sherman was anxious that I should wait where I was until he could come up, and make a sure thing of it; but I had determined to move as soon as the roads and weather would admit of my doing so.
Heaven forgive me to hear this, I am inspir'd with horrour: now I hate thee Worse than my sin, which if I could come by Should suffer death Eternal ne're to rise In any breast again.
Goto, where we arriued the 20 of February, the foresaid Goto being the neerest place that we could come to by water, to go for Benin.
Lord de Versely had nothing to leave; I could come to no conclusion that was at all satisfactory.
The next day I was standing at my window, when the Marquis Caraccioli, who was passing by, greeted me, and asked me if he could come in.
Bernis, in which he said that if I could come to Versailles the next day he would present me to Madame de Pompadour, and that I should have an opportunity of seeing M.
The abbess told her that she would send two lay-sisters to bring her back to the convent, and that as she had recovered her health she could come on-foot, and thus save money which could be spent in better ways.
I could come too, for the pastor makes much of everyone who loves his niece.
But for you Sandy would have been killed, and the governor had just cause to imprison every Regulator he could come at.
He answered with a little irritation, for he understood that Concetta wished to see her dead lover's brother, and he could not understand how any good could come of the meeting.
Had he been sure that any immediate good could come of it, he would have spoken; but it seemed to him, on the contrary, that to speak of Vittoria might make matters worse.
She knew that she must finish the dance before he could come to her.
But, before he could come, the mother had breathed her last breath.
We could come in, they said, but our teams would be taken by the Indians.
The doctor and his folks, they said, could come to the soldiers' camp.
The day stole on; Leon Ramon lay very quiet; the ice for his chest and the song for his ear gave him that semi-oblivion, dreamy and comparatively painless, which was the only mercy which could come to him.
He looked at her, astonished at the grandeur and the courage which could come on this child of razzias and revelries, and give to her all the splendor of a fearless command of some young empress.
Perhaps this was as near as he could come to getting back to sea.
There had been times when everybody round there worked for the Doanes, but now the closest his boys could come to the government was beddin' down the Cadaras' government goat!
I wish we could find a quiet place, not too far from the city so that I could come in and out during term time, and stay out altogether during the summer vacation.
Gear remarked to me that he wished I would let him know when we got a parson so that he could come to church again; for said he, "I have no inclination to serve as a parson tester.
If we did not like it we could come back to the city in the fall, and get a house here; if we did we could stay later and come in to board for three or four months.
It was not my desire to fall upon this villain, at a time when he could not defend himself, for I did not intend to mince matters with him, if once I could come to close quarters.
Before he could come up to strike me, as his first intention seemed to be, I ran across the timbers, which were bowing and trembling with the strain upon the upright posts, as well as the wash upon their nether sides.
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