Every year it crumbles into the sea more and more; and in a few years it will be all gone, and nothing left but the great round boulder-stones which the ice brought down from the glaciers behind us.
I could tell you many stories of fish being killed in thousands by earthquakes and volcanos during the last few years.
It flows round the trunks (it did so in a wood in the Sandwich Islands a few years ago), and of course sets them on fire by its heat, till nothing is left of them but blackened posts.
We were greatly troubled a few years ago, by the innovation of a new kind of knocker, without any face at all, composed of a wreath depending from a hand or small truncheon.
The interruption of that public exercise may consummate, in the period of a few years, the important work of a national revolution.
The villa of Marius was purchased, within a few years, by Lucullus, and the price had increased from two thousand five hundred, to more than fourscore thousand, pounds sterling.
I have a gentleman for my husband, and an Earl's daughter for my sister, in the very house where I was little better than a servant a few years ago.
She had counterpanes in the course of a few years to all the beds in Crawley.
The learned Rudbeck allows the family of Noah a few years to multiply from eight to about twenty thousand persons.
Galerius, alone, appears to have survived, for a few years, his father's coronation.
In the course of a few years, the riches of Syracuse, of Carthage, of Macedonia, and of Asia, were brought in triumph to Rome.
Footnote 19: Pertinax, who governed Britain a few years before, had been left for dead, in a mutiny of the soldiers.
No wonder doctors, after they've been in practice a few years, stop talking food and digestion to their patients.
A few years before, the most notable citizens, market basket on arm, could have been seen three mornings in the week, making the rounds of the stalls and stands, both those in the open and those within the Market House.
But Martha, being lazy and self-indulgent and not imaginative enough to foresee to what a pass a few years more of lounging and stuffing would bring her, regarded exercise as unladylike and dieting as unhealthful.
Oddly enough, a few years later, some inventor actually took out a patent for making incandescent lamps with carbonized hair for filaments!
There was in the reign of Philip and Mary a very unhappy murder committed by the then Lord Sturton, or Stourton, a family since extinct, but well known till within a few years in that country.
I have been told that a few years ago a Chinese gentleman took some Chinese ladies into the grand-stand and that they misbehaved; hence this discriminatory treatment of Chinese.
In England, until a few years ago, a man could not contract a legal marriage with his deceased wife's sister, although he could marry the betrothed wife of his deceased brother.
A man may become the chief ruler for a few years, but after leaving the White House he reverts to private citizenship; if he is a lawyer he may practise and appear before a judge, whom he appointed while he was president.
There are cases where men who started as petty dealers have, after a few years, become millionaires.
The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the Conservateur articles side by side with Chateaubriand; M.
The clock-tower of what had been their village forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot them.
A few years ago, a shell of sixty pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, was unearthed.
But, as I may not have occasion again to mention the other two, I shall just remark here, that Watson died in my arms a few years after, much lamented, being the best of our set.
This I accordingly perform'd, sending him a few years to school before I took him into the office.
There, by a close application to business as a merchant, he acquir'd a plentiful fortune in a few years.
The person that bought them employ'd Keimer to use them, but in a few years he died.
Queen Elizabeth--a fact which was notorious enough then, though it has been forgotten till the last few years--was doing her utmost to shield Mary.
After a few years of bloody anarchy it will be necessary to establish a power whose tyranny will inevitably be far severer than that which was overthrown.
That the latter was effected in a few years, while the first required many, was due to the fact that the French Revolution promptly had an armed force at its disposal, while Christianity was long in winning material power.
After a few years of American rule the country was entirely transformed: malaria, yellow fever, plague and cholera had entirely disappeared.
We know in what anarchy and poverty Cuba existed under Spanish rule; we know, too, to what a degree of prosperity the island was brought in a few years when it fell into the hands of the United States.
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