Out of the tangled scrub on the old overgrown barrow two human faces were looking out at him; the sinking sun glimmered full upon them, showing up every line and feature | His beard, streaked thickly with gray, bristled forward from his chin, and spoke of a passionate nature, while the long, finely cut face and firm mouth marked the leader of men |
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When washed it creases so badly and just will not iron | Yet I would fain have had the feather-bed |
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15I go now to Christchurch with a letter to him from Sir Claude Latour to ask him if he will take the place of Sir John Hawkwood; and there is the more chance that he will if I bring one or two likely men at my heels | Now, John, the sun is over the trees; you must be brisker than this when the bugleman blows 'Bows and Bills |
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Where are your cords, Peterkin? Thank you for your review I am sorry for the disappointment caused to you and your friend as you have not received your very precious order for a special friend | Would it not be a proud day for knight or squire if he could overthrow seven adversaries in the lists? HOW THE YELLOW COG CROSSED THE BAR OF GIRONDE |
Sickerly the one duty may balance the other.
Hast forgotten that the five-and-thirtieth rule of the order is that in the presence of a woman the face should be ever averted and the eyes cast down? He bounded back from his perilous foeman; but the other, heated by the bout, rushed madly after him, and so gave the practised wrestler the very vantage for which he had planned | Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, he was heard by brother Ambrose and others to say that he wished twenty thousand devils would fly away with the said Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, or any other saint who came between a man and his meat |
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Touch not that which is no concern of thine | I swear by my ten finger-bones that there is not one of them that hath not cost its weight in French blood! As regards the maid, too, it is true that I did heft her over the stream, she having on her hosen and shoon, whilst I had but my wooden sandals, which could take no hurt from the water |
Let him take off his plates and delve himself, if delving must be done.
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