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...Shouldn't that quotation be 'Nor his servant, nor his maid?' Ah, but of course, I am thinking of the Prayer Book and not the Authorized Version. Proceed...
...fence. The regularity of it intrigued him. After a feverish search about the sidewalk he found a small stick. Now he walked along the other side of the walk, tapping every other bar with his stick. The metallic clicking brought a gleam of satisfaction to his deep, intelligent eyes. Ah, this indeed is pleasure...
...June 26, 1933, Captain Taudien & friends boarded the stinking but seaworthy Chinese cargo steamer Sheng An near Tientsin. Cried her Russian master Captain Boris Vikhmann, "Ah, my good friend Captain Taudien, this voyage will be a joy!" In five minutes the German had persuaded the Russian to trust him and his friends for their passage money to Foochow (1,500 miles), where the Sheng An was to deliver a cargo of coal...
...Perken's philosophy of death Author Malraux seems to voice his own: "It seems to me sometimes that I am staking myself, all that I am, on a single moment -my last." As Claude watches his dying friend he thinks: "Ah, if only they existed, those gods of theirs, and he might, even at the cost of never-ending torment, howl in their faces, like the baying dogs, the bitter truth-that no hope of heaven, no promise of reward, nothing can justify the end of any human life...
...very hands that formerly fed him-cannot be expected to do justice as between the interests of those placed before him for adjudication. That fine sense of fairness common to and inherent in minds of splendid judicial poise is obtuse in him, and cannot therefore point its way to ah unerring decree...