Rezanov, raising his glass, saw that what he had taken to be a pile of fallen rocks was a fort, and that a group of excited men stood at its gates.
He was annoyed and mortified at the discovery-- made over the punch bowl--that the girl he had taken to be twenty was but sixteen.
After the dinner, in the seclusion of the sala, he had taken pains to explore for the causes of her mental ma- turity.
Yes--but ithad taken two to build the nest; the man's faith as well as the woman's courage.
It was, apparently, the first notice which the Arab had taken of the girl; but many times during these two days had his cunning eyes peered greedily from beneath the hood of his burnoose to gloat upon the beauties of the prisoner.
Alma 56:8 8 But I would not suffer them that they should break this covenant which they had made, supposing that God would strengthen us, insomuch that we should not suffer more because of the fulfilling the oath which they had taken.
After first apologising--in an excellent selection of English words--for the liberty which he had taken in disturbing me, the Indian produced a small parcel the outer covering of which was of cloth of gold.
He dropped my arm as suddenly as he had taken it--and looked at me with the air of a man whose mind was relieved of the last doubt that rested on it.
He suddenly stopped in his walk, and looked at me as if he thought I had taken leave of my senses.
I put the letter into my pocket--and then asked for the Sergeant's opinion of the measures which we had taken at the bank.
Finding the bottle still well filled, I have resolved to use it, in preference to employing either of the two preparations with which I had taken care to provide myself, in case of emergency.
At last she executed the resolution she had taken to go out of her husband's room, whenever he was there, though this was doing the utmost violence to herself: the Duke perceived she avoided him, and the thought of it touched him to the heart.
The Duke's person was turned in so delicate a manner, that it was impossible not to express surprise at the first sight of him, particularly that evening, when the care he had taken to adorn himself added much to the fine air of his carriage.
The petition concluded with stating, that the Earl, under pretence of the deeds thus iniquitously obtained, had taken possession of the whole place and living of Crossraguel, and enjoyed the profits thereof for three years.
Seward It was in the twilight of the day when her trial, if it could be called such, had taken place, that a low knock was heard at the door of Rebecca's prison-chamber.
Gunnar rode home, and gave Njal good gifts, and thanked him for the care he had taken of his goods.
They asked Gunnar about the fight, but he told them all about it, and was just in all he said; he told them, too, what steps he had taken since.
Now Gudmund rides home north and had praise from every man for the part he had taken in these quarrels.
He had taken up a first position behind the little tree, with a direct determination to hold it against the world.
The squirrel, immediately upon recognizing danger, had takento his legs without ado.
In the afternoon, the regiment went out over the same ground it had taken in the morning.
Apparently it had taken a lump of coal to examine.
It was the landlord of the Spotted Dog, whose conveyance I had taken.
In 1859 he had taken to wife a widow of the name of Hannah Ward.
As a boy he had spent his life farming in Vermont, after which he had taken up medicine and acquired some kind of medical degree.
Castaing replied that it had commenced shortly after he had taken a spoonful of the draught which the doctor had prescribed for him.
Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.
And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war.
He had taken part in long-forgotten agitations, and had suffered eviction in some ancient landlords' quarrel farther north.
I was determined to see Mary before I left, and I had a good excuse, for I had taken my orders from her.
As I lit the candles on my dressing-table I observed that the stack of silver which I had taken out of my pockets when I washed before supper was top-heavy.
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