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The snow for a space was as level as a prairie, but in front of us rose the mighty bulwarks which separated us from the neighbouring canton.
[228] CHAPTER XII "THE NEW POLICE" The depth of lawlessness under which London lay submerged, and the deplorable condition of the feeble bulwarks that the richest city in the world had so long been content to rely on, have been considered at some length, because it is only by contrasting the security of recent years with the lawless confusion previously existing, that an intelligent appreciation of the debt we owe to Sir Robert Peel is made clear.
" Again among the tiers of shipping, in and out, avoiding rusty chain-cables frayed hempen hawsers and bobbing buoys, sinking for the moment floating broken baskets, scattering floating chips of wood and shaving, cleaving floating scum of coal, in and out, under the figure-head of the John of Sunderland making a speech to the winds (as is done by many Johns), and the Betsy of Yarmouth with a firm formality of bosom and her knobby eyes starting two inches out of her head; in and out, hammers going in ship-builders' yards, saws going at timber, clashing engines going at things unknown, pumps going in leaky ships, capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen, in and out,-out at last upon the clearer river, where the ships' boys might take their fenders in, no longer fishing in troubled waters with them over the side, and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind.
Even then I was still so much interested, waiting for the ship to touch, that I had quite forgot the peril that hung over my head and stood craning over the starboard bulwarks and watching the ripples spreading wide before the bows.
The pirates respectfully cleared a passage for him, and it was only when he brought up against the bulwarks that he spoke.
Seeing Peter slowly advancing upon him through the air with dagger poised, he sprang upon the bulwarks to cast himself into the sea.
" "Offering themselves to the United States as bulwarks against Islam, they filled their arsenals with old Pentagon stock, which they are now discharging copiously on each other," the article said.
Or that he once ordered his chief of staff to "[b]low the safe" of one of the bulwarks of official Washington, the Brookings Institution.
Yet, above all, Hall raised the standard of discussion on the bulwarks of evidence, and, even when he was captious or carping, he compelled respect.
The Ibicencos fortified the bulwarks and built additional towers and fortresses throughout to help shield themselves against enemy incursions.
The present bulwarks date back to the year 1554, when Charles V, Holy Roman emperor, ordered that the 31/2-metre-thick (6-foot) wall be reconstructed.
Only in this way can be explained the apparition of such fetishes as are beginning to be set up on the Conservative side against the fetish of the Nonconformists:-The Constitution in danger! The bulwarks of British freedom menaced! The lamp of the Reformation put out! No Popery!-and so on.
She learnt to look upon the two Israelite kingdoms as her bulwarks against attack from the East, and it became an acknowledged part of her policy to support them against Assyrian aggression.
These three strong bulwarks of superstition are so hostile to pure reason and the truth it seeks that we must devote special attention to them.
I will only point out that a good deal of science-in fact, the rational sciences with exact mathematical basis-have now been completely won over to monism, and in the semi-dogmatic sciences it is gaining ground from day to day, so that we may hope sooner or later to see the four dogmatic sciences also, the strong bulwarks of dualism-sociology, politics, jurisprudence, and theology-succumb to monism.
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