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With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate-with every villainy of life in action close on death and every poisonous element of death in action close on life,-here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two; here sow him in corruption, to be raised[123] in corruption; an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside; a shameful testimony to future ages that civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.
By long-established usage, originating from the time when the blood-feud was the recognised agency for avenging murder, the custom had arisen of postponing royal interference until the relatives or friends of the deceased had been allowed ample time in which to bring the criminal to justice, and, by ancient consent, those parties who were interested acted the rôle that our [91]police detectives are now charged with, and, so to speak, had to "get up" the case against the alleged offender.
For the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.
This avenging phantom was ordered to be on duty at eight on Tuesday morning in the hall, (it was two feet square, as charged for floorcloth,) and Herbert suggested certain things for breakfast that he thought Joe would like.
Finally he gave a faint single rap, and Pepper-such was the compromising name of the avenging boy-announced "Mr.
He married her after having killed his father, but the gods proclaimed the whole story to the world; whereon he remained king of Thebes, in great grief for the spite the gods had borne him; but Epicaste went to the house of the mighty jailor Hades, having hanged herself for grief, and the avenging spirits haunted him as for an outraged mother-to his ruing bitterly thereafter.
Still, if the poor have gods and avenging deities at all, I pray them that Antinous may come to a bad end before his marriage.
With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate-with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life-here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two, here sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside, a shameful testimony to future ages how civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.
'Without more directly referring to any latent ability that may possibly exist on my part, of wielding the thunderbolt, or directing the devouring and avenging flame in any quarter, I may be permitted to observe, in passing, that my brightest visions are for ever dispelled-that my peace is shattered and my power of enjoyment destroyed-that my heart is no longer in the right place-and that I no more walk erect before my fellow man.
Micawber's letter, and returned the elevation of eyebrows with which he said "'Wielding the thunderbolt, or directing the devouring and avenging flame!
The New York Times ' Maslin says that Mira Sorvino ( Mighty Aphrodite ) and Lisa Kudrow ( Friends ), in their roles as bimbettes avenging the wrongs of high school, "elevat[e] bubble-headedness to new levels of comic ingenuity.
" As Branch notes, "King and the movement's established leaders sounded ponderous against Malcolm's avenging swagger.
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