At last he said, "Well, I have that mummy rat, the relic of the Heart of Midlothian, safe in a cabinet of curiosities in my house at Redhill to this day.
The vulgar, churn-like monument was thus thrust on the public and actually erected; and there it stands to this day, a piteous sight to beholders.
I may briefly say that the engine gave every satisfaction, and I believe that it continues working to this day.
His armorial bearings consisted of a hand dexter with a dagger, between two broken hammer-shafts, and there they remain to this day.
I also regarded them as a proof that I had hit the mark in so arranging my mechanical combinations as to cause their general adoption, and many of them remain unaltered to this day.
And the intimate profundity of that look he gave me when he received his hurt remains to this day in my memory--like a claim of distant kinship affirmed in a supreme moment.
I had no reason to doubt his statement; and to this day I am unable to say what was Kurtz's profession, whether he ever had any--which was the greatest of his talents.
I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone--and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience.
And thinkest thou the evil to repair With her whom thou hast given to me this day?
About this period, in almost every part of the group, the kings were murdered; and on Tapituea, the skeleton of the last hangs to this day in the chief Speak House of the isle, a menace to ambition.
Even to this day, in certain outlying islands, danger lingers; and the civilized Paumotuan dreads to land and hesitates to accost his backward brother.
If famine came, the men must out to the woods to gather chestnuts and small fruits; even as to this day, if the parents are backward in their weekly doles, school must be broken up and the scholars sent foraging.
Mr. Snodgrass, being occasionally abstracted and melancholy, is to this day reputed a great poet among his friends and acquaintance, although we do not find that he has ever written anything to encourage the belief.
Even had Christendom retained it to this day, the advantage, if confined to that, would have been too dearly purchased.
This is a summary of the belief which prevailed for many centuries nearly all over Europe, and which is far from eradicated even at this day.
Still, for many years after this, the superstition lingered both in England and Scotland, and in some districts is far from being extinct even at this day.
Stone Boy himself could not be entirely destroyed, but he was overcome by his enemies and left half buried in the earth, condemned never to walk again, and there we find him to this day.
Presently he felt something move and pulled in a huge rattlesnake; and to this day, his name is "Caught-the-Rattlesnake.
He was known at that time as one of the best hunters and bravest warriors among the Sioux in British America, where he still lives, for to this day we have failed to persuade him to return to the United States.
She said these things so thoughtfully and impressively that I cannot but feel and remember them even to this day.
This day's visit to an English lighthouse convinces me of this, as the lightkeeper was walking on a staff with the gout, and the business performed by one of his daughters, a girl of thirteen or fourteen years of age.
And to this day, looking in these stitched sheaves of letters, we hear the sound of many soft-hearted women sobbing for the lost.
And I am glad the broad seas are between us this day, for I shall never forget how frightened I was when I took him for the picture of old Sir Malise walked out of the canvas.
The head is as clean taen aff the Ravenswood family this day as I wad chap the head aff a sybo!
Often has it been called a place fatal to the race of Ravenswood--often has it proved so; but never was it likely to verify old sayings as much as on this day.
So those narrow straits are called 'Hellespont,' after her; and they bear that name until this day.
And we call such a man a hero in English to this day, and call it a 'heroic' thing to suffer pain and grief, that we may do good to our fellow-men.
And Zeus took that land in exchange, a fair bargain, much bad ground for a little good, and to this day it lies waste and desert with shingle, and rock, and sand.
And as he went the blood-drops fell to the earth from the Gorgon's head, and became poisonous asps and adders, which breed in the desert to this day.
And Proetus and his Cyclopes built around Tiryns great walls of unhewn stone, which are standing to this day.
Mad with excitement as I was, ruined, dishonored, and now finally determined to make an end of my misspent life, my only surprise to this day is that I did not do so then and there.
Raffles on this day, as, indeed, all the cricket world remembers.
To this day no Protestant prince has been raised to the imperial throne.
It is probable that he had not expected the attack on this day, since he had ordered an entertainment for it.
The disgrace of this day is to be ascribed principally to three mistakes; his planting the cannon on the hills behind him, his afterwards abandoning these heights, and his allowing the enemy, without opposition, to form in order of battle.
People talk of it to this day; but none can tell what the labour was, who have not felt that snow and wind.
Likings will not come to order; otherwise I should not be where I am this day.
And the weather growing quite beautiful, and so mild that the trees were budding, and the cattle full of happiness, I could not but think of the difference between the world of to-day and the world of this day twelvemonth.
He had another house upon the Mount Quirinalis, the site of which they show to this day.
At first, they say, they sacrificed no living creature on this day, thinking it fit to preserve the feast of their country's birthday pure and without stain of blood.
Yet before ever the city was built, there was a feast of herdsmen and shepherds kept on this day, which went by the name of Palilia.
It was never my forte, as you know, yet to this day I cannot conceive what I did to excite the treacherous corporal's suspicions.
Yet to this day I cannot account for my inspiration, that proved nothing less.
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