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...on an eminence, surrounded on all sides by a moat, or rather by deep, wide ditches always full of water, is built in cobble- stones buried in cement, ... ...mbling away of the earth and stones and gravel had ended by filling up the ditch, so that only after heavy rains was the causeway thus con- structed c...

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...o o’clock in the morning. She would not have reared, bolted, fallen into a ditch, upset the cart, and sent Platte flying over an aloe- hedge on to Mrs... ... that, in life as well as racing, all the worst accidents happen at little ditches and cut-down fences. In the same way , you some- times see a woman ...

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... out of sight. And all the nearer parts of the marsh were laced and lit by ditches and canals. The window at which I worked looked over the skyline of... ...d up. Just in front of me the snowdrift had fallen away and made a sort of ditch. I made a step and jumped. I found myself flying through the air, saw...

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...ck smite; and then he was ware of an house closed well with walls and deep ditches, and there he knocked at the gate and was let in, and he alighted a...

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...ng, the sea raging and thundering on its new beach, the attack began. Deep ditches, double drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon... ...arge of the wine shop worked like a manful soldier, Two fierce hours. Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, ... ...n hunger and revenge. Cannon, muskets, fire and smoke; but, still the deep ditch, the single drawbridge, the massive stone wails, and the eight great ... ...nd rattle, and the furious sounding of the living sea; but, still the deep ditch, and the single drawbridge, and the massive stone walls, and the eigh...

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...?” asked Planchet. “This is the matter: be he ever so cunning he shall never say I was his dupe. Stand here, don’t stir, turn your back to the road an... ... it from under his pillow and gave it to Grimaud. Grimaud gave a grim smile. “Well?” asked the duke. “Well, my lord, I sew up the paper in the ball an... ...d nodded the third time. “Come, now,” said the duke, “give some particulars of the plan for our escape.” “That is forbidden me,” said Grimaud, “until ... ...h led to the little inclosure. At last they reached the tennis court. It was completely deserted. No sentinels, no one at any of the windows. The duke... ... you are indeed a nobleman! Whither art thou go- ing, Grimaud?” “To join the Vicomte de Bragelonne in Flanders, your honor.” They were taking the road... ...ad been made in the streets of Paris. The whole city seemed peopled with fantastic beings; silent shadows were seen unpaving the streets and others dr... ... advice of Athos to go straight to the minister. “My friend,” said Aramis, “take care; our safety lies in our obscurity. If we were to make ourselves ...

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...ing but a collection of straw covered huts, hidden in a thick wood, with a ditch all round, and a low wall, made of mud, or the trunks of trees placed... ...efully humiliated. He was outraged, and slighted, and had dirty water from ditches given him to shave with, and wept and said he would have clean warm... ...was struck upon the head with a stone, and was again tumbled down into the ditch; but, she only cried all the more, as she lay there, ‘On, on, my coun... ...he suburb of Saint Honore. In this fight, being again struck down into the ditch, she was abandoned by the whole army. She lay unaided among a heap of... ...he scene of the suffering of these two good Protestant men was in the City ditch, near Baliol College. On coming to the dreadful spot, they kissed the... ...rict search being made, he was found dis guised as a peasant, hidden in a ditch under fern and nettles, with a few peas in his pocket which he had ga...

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...retty well, with a slight struggle. Why is it that he can never get over a ditch without some struggle in his saddle, some scramble with his horse? Wh... ... savagely, and then at some little fence, some ignoble 9 Anthony Trollope ditch, they come down together in the mud, and the ques- tion of any furthe... ...ften thrown into the horror which would arise were a lady known to be in a ditch with a horse lying on her. I own that I like to see three or four lad... ...he hearts of those around her, and go safely through brake and brier, over ditch and dyke, and meet with a score of knights around her who will be wil...

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...he money]. Now, sirrah, I must tell you that you may ride him o’er hedge and ditch, and spare him not; but, do you hear? in any case, ride him not int... ...he will drink of all waters; but ride him not into the water: o’er hedge and ditch, or where thou wilt, but not into the water. Go, bid the hostler de... ...murder, now he has but one leg, I’ll outrun him, and cast this leg into some ditch or other. [Aside, and then runs out .] FAUSTUS. Stop him, sto... .... So, sir, because I knew him to be such a horse as would run over hedge and ditch and never tire, I gave him his money. So, when I had my horse, Doct...

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...man; he rode without sympathy, he was unready and convulsive at hedges and ditches, and he judged dis- tances badly. His white face and rigid seat and... ...et far away from any population as it seemed in a flat wilderness of reedy ditches and patchy cultivation. The distilleries and outbuildings were dese... ... pice. Some of the corners were miraculous, and once they had a wheel in a ditch for a time, they shaved the parapet of a bridge over a gorge and they...

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...d, let me begin the psalme. GUISE. Come dragge him away and throw him in a ditch. [Exeunt omnes .] Scene vi: Enter Mountsorrell and knocks at Serouns ... ...sh, and the fish our selves when we eate them. 1. Then throw him into the ditch. 2. No, no, to decide all doubts, be rulde by me, lets hang him upon ... ...et. GUISE. No by my faith Madam. Sirs, take him away and throw him in some ditch. [Carry away the dead body .] And now Madam as I understand, There an...

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...hem slope the sides of their dyke, but the owl Kitson says no Yorkshireman ditcher ever went but by one fashion, and none ever shall; and when I lifte... ...ing more than this dyke.’ He rode on, and did his best by leaping into the ditch, taking the spade, and showing the superior security of the angle of ... ... but obstinately scouted the no- tion that any king should know more about ditches than themselves. ‘See,’ cried Percy, starting up, ‘here’s other wor...

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...inute oblongs of ruddy brown, inter- sected by shining threads, the sewage ditches. His exhilaration increased rapidly, became a sort of intoxi- catio... ...ed away, shining greasily under a few distant lights, into a circumambient ditch of darkness. Out between the bars he looked upon the wind-clear north...

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...he very people whose aim is to drive them out of their houses to starve in ditches. And they have the political power still, if they only had the sens... ... “A venomous beast,” he began again from the doorway. “Drive me out into a ditch to starve for a joke. I could see he thought it was a damned good jok...

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...f catching him would necessarily involve that. They kicked my cap into the ditch at the end of the field, and made off compactly along a cinder lane w... ...contagion in the Gothic build- 78 The New Machiavelli ings, in the narrow ditch-like rivers, in those roads and roads of stuffy little villas. Those ... ...ling locusts that men sweep up by the sackload and drown by the million in ditches… . Grotesquely against it came the lean features, the sidelong shy ...

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...s of dry-stone, and traversed in its whole length by a very broad and deep ditch, circumstances which must have given the musketry of the regulars dre... ...eir arms. Their advanced posts were pushed as far as the side of the great ditch at the bottom of the descent, and had kindled large fires at differen... ... Ensign Maccombich waiting to make report of his turn of duty in a sort of ditch which they had dug across the Castle- hill, and called a trench. In a... ...mokes and thunders down, taking a rood at every spring, clearing hedge and ditch like a York- shire huntsman, and becoming most furiously rapid in its... ...k that it was not possible to view or number the slain, who filled all the ditches which happened to be on the ground where they stood. But it was com...

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...k of being plundered and burnt before the next morn- ing. A deep fosse, or ditch, was drawn round the whole build- ing, and filled with water from a n... ...n the opposite side of the moat with the mules. The travellers crossed the ditch upon a drawbridge of only two planks breadth, the narrowness of which... ...land, and on a mount, ascending from the river, well defended by walls and ditches, rises this ancient edifice, which, as its Saxon name implies, was,... ...ange for their prayers—the nest of foul ungrateful vipers—barley bread and ditch water to, such a patron as I had been! I will smoke them out of their... ... the outer wall the entrance has piers of a gate, and on the east side the ditch and bank are double and very steep. On the top of the churchyard wall...

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...lexity of narrow streets of water, which the same lady disparaged as ‘mere ditches.’ The house, on a little desert island, looked as if it had bro- ke... ...with the mistrust that the brigand moment was come for twisting him into a ditch and robbing him; until, letting down the glass again and looking out,... ...any Calais left, and that its low gates and low wall and low roofs and low ditches and low sand-hills and low ramparts 221 Little Dorrit – Book Two a... ...k at, and I am not at all so. He is as sweet as honey, and I am as dull as ditch-water. He provides the pitch, and I handle it, and it sticks to me. N...

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... books unnatural to her gay white littleness: volumes of anthropology with ditches of foot-notes filled with heaps of small dusty type, Parisian imagi... ...r to resist every attack on the integrity of American industry to the last ditch. Yes—sir!” Mr. Elder wiped his brow. Dave Dyer added, “Sure! You bet!... ...l competition. It was too easy to go on making out conveyances and arguing ditching cases. So— That’s all of the biography of a living dead man, excep... ... a terrifying bump they were off the road, slanting with two wheels in the ditch, but instantly they were jerked back as the horses fled on. She gaspe... ...scared. Would I mind it if you and I went off to poverty, and I had to dig ditches? I would not! But you would. I think you would come to like me, but...

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...here were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the... ...e crushed remains of a bonnet that had prob- ably been picked up from some ditch or dunghill. In this dainty raiment, she instructed Florence to dress... ...uprearing themselves from among the scarlet 126 Dombey & Son beans. Then, ditches. Then, pollard willows. Then, more ditches. Then, unaccountable pat...