They are fleeter than springboks, and also more shy and wary, as though they knew that their spoils are more valuable to the hunter, and therefore required greater skill and speed to preserve them.
Hendrik--ardent hunter though he was--was equally desirous to get back, and lay hisspoils at the feet of the blushing Wilhelmina.
To conclude; It expels both birth and after-birth; and as it helps the deficiency of Venus in one kind, so it spoilsall her actions in another.
When the Franks, after the last day's fighting, wished to renew the struggle, they found that the enemy had fled, leaving a camp filled with the spoils of war.
Still Jack continued to swing around in a short circle, showing how even with the spoils of victory close within their reach he could keep to his standard maxim of "watch your step!
We'll soon have a chance to put that to the test, for it's our only way to hang on to our spoils and have something to turn in for the night's work.
There's only one way we can arrange things so as to keep our clutch on the spoils we've rustled so far and do our duty according to orders.
Much would depend on just how those who were struggling like mad wolves on the deck of the schooner to gain or retain possession of the spoils took the attack from the air.
He had taken advantage of the absence of a Tarentine gunner, named Lamarrone, to make this communication to General Manscourt; Lamarrone was his accomplice, but the doctor did not mean to share the spoils with him if he could help it.
I found a book which had dropped out of Bligny's waistcoat when he staggered from my blow; and, as I considered that the spoils of the conquered belonged by right to the conqueror, I picked it up and carried it off.
The Spoils of Sacrilege There was one deed of those days which deserved a place in our original annals.
On the one side they struck at the spoils system; at the right of the politicians to use public offices as mere rewards for partisan work.
The purification of the ballot, the restriction of the spoils system, the enlargement of direct popular control over the organs of government were not the sole answers made by the reformers to the critics of American institutions.
In the lower ranges of official life, the spoils system became more virulent as the number of federal employees increased.
At the same time there were undoubtedly some men of the baser sort who looked on politics as a game and who made use of "carpet-bagging" in the South to win the spoils that might result from it.
In the winter of 1904 there broke out between Japan and Russia a terrible conflict over the division of spoilsin Manchuria.
The spoils system, inaugurated by Jacksonian Democracy, in turn placed all the federal offices in Republican hands, furnishing an army of party workers to be counted on for loyal service in every campaign.
The famous slogan, "to the victor belong the spoils of victory," became the avowed principle of the national government.
It approved his policy of parceling out government offices among party workers--"the spoils system" in all its fullness.
Old soldiersFleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.
The spoils which will be taken there will be sufficient to silence every murmur in Carthage.
There are spoils enough stored up to clothe all the women of Rome.
Malchus pointed out that, with the rewards and spoils he had obtained, he had now sufficient money to become a man of importance among his own people.
These also were furnished from the abundant spoils which had fallen into the hands of the Carthaginians.
He loves me dearly, and, although he had intended returning with the bey to collect the spoils from the field, he is, nevertheless, ready to accompany you if you will permit him.
But I hope to bring you rich spoils in two days, and Osman Bey has promised to reward me well for my work.
All this lordly game is to be chased and driven to bay to-day, and then there are rich spoils to be gathered.
If we are victorious, you shall collect all the spoils you may desire from the field of battle, and no one shall hinder you.
Let them rob the dead; for me and mine, who scorn to do this, spoils enough still remain; we have captured all their artillery, and munitions of war in abundance.
Many fine young men have wooed her, for she has been made rich by the spoils her father gathered on the plain of Damanhour.
You shall, however, have thespoils of the battle-field if you will perform the service I require of you.
It is in accordance with the military character of the Romans that the first considerable collections of which we hear in Rome were brought there as the spoils of war.
Asinius Pollio, who erected a library in the Atrium Libertatis on Mount Aventine, defraying the cost from the spoils of his Illyrian campaign.
Weary of the restraints of home, he joined a band of Danish marauders, and shared their victories, enriching himself with the spoils of his own countrymen.
In the course of the morning they saw Redwald return, laden with the spoils of the Grange farm--oxen and sheep, waggons containing corn, driven before him.
A silent Orpheus wrought the charm From riven rocks their spoils to bring; A nameless Titan lent his arm To range us in our magic ring.
The most important of these spoils is the silver-gilt reredos taken in the Spanish king's travelling chapel.
Besides building Batalha, King João dedicated the spoils he had taken at Aljubarrota to the church of Nossa Senhora da Oliviera at Guimarães, which he rebuilt from the designs of Juan Garcia of Toledo.
To the different sections of the Union he wore a different face, and each section seemed confident that the other would be duped, while cordially joining in a common struggle for the spoils of office which constituted the sole bond of union.
The power of party discipline and the tempting bait of the spoils were to be employed as never before in swerving men from their convictions.
On this issue they were perfectly united and thoroughly in earnest, and it was idle to deny that on their own showing the spoils alone divided them from the Democrats and inspired their zeal.
The Whigs, now that they were in power, saw nothing amiss in the spoils system inaugurated by Gen.
A rumor had reached them that a large number of Spaniards were in Mexico, not very far to the westward; that they were powerful in numbers, conquering all before them, and enriching themselves with the spoils of a majestic empire.
He returned to San Miguel with the report of his discoveries, and quite richly laden with the gold which he had received as a present from the natives, or which he had seized as what he considered the lawful spoils of war.
All their possessions and especially the magnificent animals they rode, were to be divided as the spoils of the conqueror.
The accumulation of wealth and spoils gave the people more leisure, increased their means of enjoyment, and educated their taste in luxuries.
This time not only the 120 companions of Ponce came in for their share of the living spoils of war, but the followers of Ceron claimed and obtained theirs also.
The spoils were equally divided, the captain's share being double that of the men.
They did not count the enemy in time of war, and only interested themselves in the number of prisoners which to them constituted the spoils of conquest.
My little love isn't going to do anything that spoils her Everard's plans after all the trouble he has taken?
How my own Love spoils things,' he said, shaking his head at her with fond solemnity when they were settled in the chair.
We were here met by fourteen Indians loaded with oil and blubber, the spoils of the whale, which they were carrying in very heavy burdens over this rough mountain.
But they came with high-raised hopes, only repining at their ill luck in not having been in the first expedition, by which they supposed the first spoils of Eldorado had already been shared.
Then were displayed the crowns and rewards the deceased had been honored with and the spoils and standards he had taken in war.
