It is a long time to wait before I can write again, for there are no towns beyond Van Buren, and no post to carry a letter.
Above the top of the post appeared the head held stiffly upright.
But for the same circumstance, we might have believed, that they had not yet come down the Obion; and perhaps would have remained at our post a day longer.
The red post is only just now erected; and the war-dance may last for an hour.
The routine of a frontierpost is of itself sufficient to produce the deadliest ennui; and the Californian attraction had "capped the climax.
Had he driven the blade to its hilt, I could not have flinched: I was fixed firmly as the post to which they had bound me.
The travelling carriage andpost horses were at the door.
He refused the Lord-Lieutenancy of his county; he declined every post of personal distinction connected with it.
I had written a note of a few, I dare say, incoherent words by the nextpost after my dear father's death.
I cowered to the ground in my post of observation.
Therefore he sends to know your Lordships pleasure, If you will presently take Horse with him, And with all speed post with him toward the North, To shun the danger that his Soule diuines Hast.
Some light-foot friend postto y Duke of Norfolk: Ratcliffe thy selfe, or Catesby, where is hee?
During the late one, when a sheet of red-hot lava glowed on either side of the ridge and when fiery projectiles fell all about, the post was not deserted.
With them were obliterated the huge retail stores along Post street; St. Luke's Church, the biggest Episcopal church on the Pacific coast, and the priceless Hopkins Art Institute.
It has assumed the post of guardian to the throne it is seeking to usurp; it protects the house of Valois which it means to destroy.
The vast four-post bedstead with its silken curtains was like a tomb.
You seem to me so worthy of confidence that I offer you the post of /connetable/; /you/ will not betray me like the other.
His eldest son, an Argentino, has just been appointed to the post of Under-Secretary of State in the Office of Public Instruction by M.
From St. Vincent to the island of Fernando de Noronha, the advanced post of Brazil, I do not think we were ever more than two days out of range of wireless telegraphy.
If I may speak freely, I do not consider it diplomatic for France to leave so important a post as Rio for more than one year in the hands of a simple charge d'affaires, no matter how experienced.
The chief whose post is at the seventh gate Is thine own brother; hear his direful prayers, His imprecations on our commonwealth.
The scenery from and around the post was of a character totally different from anything we had before seen in the country.
Its proximity to Post Retief, not more than two hours' ride, enabled us frequently to see our friends of the gallant and renowned old corps, and the oftener the more heartily welcome.
All next day we remained in this spot, awaiting a fresh supply of ammunition from Post Retief.
As we returned to the Post with our new acquisition, we put up whole coveys of partridges, though our rifle and pistol practice at them did not add much to the larder.
A mounted party was sent off to Post Retief, to order commissariat supplies to meet us at our halting place the following evening.
Wilson), who had ridden over from Post Retief with a small escort, to perform the last rites for one whom he had known in life, read the beautiful funeral service with unusual feeling.
Having a day to spare, I rode out to Lieuwe Fontein, of whichPost my brother had, some time previously, been appointed Commandant, with a garrison of 74th and Mounted Levies.
The sculptor, Kaffsack, has represented the post and the telegraph as winged female figures.
The cuts given herewith, taken from the Illustrirte Zeitung, represent two statues for the new Post Office at Leipzig.
The party became frightened and beat it in post haste back to Valparaiso, setting sail immediately for Salina Cruz, and spent the time that was scheduled for a tour of Argentina, in snoopin' around the land of the Montezumas.
I remember how I once requested the stage driver to bring me some meat from Megory, there being no meat shop in Calias, and it was to be left at the post office.
We went into Freckles's father's drug store, and Mr. Watson told Freckles to step around to the post office and ask for his mail.
Yes, sir, the biggest blamed monkey you ever seen, trying to crack that football open on a goalpost under the belief that it was a cocoa-nut.
And the clerk in the post office when we come in, looks at Freckles very solemn and says: "Ah, here is Mr. H.
Stealing noiselessly from the room, she glided downstairs like a shadow, pausing abruptly at the hall table, for there lay the evening's mail, just brought in by a servant from the village post office.
At the present crisis, in our Revolution of "Three Days," he comes forward to the post of danger.
Among the last words of warning from the lips of Chatham, as he fell at his post in the British Senate, almost his dying words, were "against co-operation with men who still persist in unretracted error.
He would fain have had my good word to my lord for a post in the household, as comptroller of accounts, clerk, or the like.
There was a steep stair, as the only access, and it could be easily guarded, so Sir Amias directed Humfrey to post a couple of men at the foot, and to visit and relieve them from time to time.
Full of this post hoc argument, Mr. Melbury overlooked the infinite throng of other possible reasons and unreasons for a woman changing her mind.
Then bear to the right at the next fork, where sign-post directs to Loughton (17.
So the sign-post was hardly needed on this narrow road of many rectangles, at one of which my charioteer's friends were happily met.
Our little disaster had come to us half-way on the road passing through a village green, very spacious, fringed on the left with stray cottages, of which one turned out to be the post office.
If such licences were a condition precedent to similar collections now the Post Office would be much the poorer, and some of us might be richer.
In September, 1843, Grant reported for duty at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, the largest military post in the United States at that time.
The winter of 1848 was spent at the post at Sackett's Harbor, New York; the next two years at Detroit, Michigan.
The English also favoured Cauchon, and obtained for him a high post in the University of Paris.
It was he who was made Archbishop of Rouen, which post Cauchon had hoped to gain; and it was for this archbishopric that Cauchon had taken the presiding post during the trial.
In the other, four years later, he fills a post which tallies with what is called in Scotland the Procurator-fiscal.
Apostol was demoted from his position as a first deputy prime minister to his previously held post as chairman of the General Union of Trade Unions.
Following the Soviet pattern he gave up his party post but reclaimed it two years later, coincidentally with the emergence of Nikita Khrushchev as the leading figure in the Soviet hierarchy.
The second, officially adopted in September 1952, had first been made public the preceding July after Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej had assumed the post of prime minister in addition to his position as head of the party.
None the less he was listening and as the dots and dashes fell into letters and the letters into words, he read, as if from a book, this message: "Woman starts out in morning with bundle by way of Crabapple post office.
About the post office loitered a small crowd drawn together by the instinct for companionship and to that gathering place Brent turned first in search of Bud.
That would indicate that Wicks had either deserted his post at Coal City, or left it in charge of a relief man, and that he had come to Wolf-Pen to operate a disused key nearer the scene of action.
But he was not a young man and the prospects of a long ride back to the nearest militarypost were not alluring.
He brought the prisoner back to Julesburg, and bound him to the snubbing-post in the middle of the stage company's corral.
In Camp Grant, where he arrived at sundown, he found his fellow-trooper, badly wounded but expected to live, under care of the post surgeon.
But most often it was the droning monotone of the post interpreter, uttering his translations in English or in the tongue of the Apache.
Before you go to your new post they must give you an interval here.
They sat in the garden, the morning being warm, and the old man had a table beside him covered with the letters and newspapers the post had poured forth.
Nick replied that he described his post as beastly but didn't seem to have suffered from it.
