Word: painful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maybe this will assuage some of the pain that the knocks you get give...
...fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban; under if, his little black eyes rolled and blazed alternately in pain and fury. His black-dyed beard was partially hidden in the soft, white woolen garments which swathed his bloated body. Third, came four of Raisuli's favorite wives, perched on Spanish mules and attended by three armed and terrifying Negro eunuchs...
This proposal, if formally placed before the Commons, will be greeted by how is of indignation and lacerated pain by the minority, which may be able to force a general election. In that case, it is likely that the electorate will avenge itself upon the offending Tories. The minority intends, at all events, to move slowly in so hazardous a cause, but that so retrogressive a stop is contemplated and even supported by a large section of British political opinion, shows to what straits property and prestige are being driven to maintain their predominance in the civic structure...
...Athens filed past the urns and as they passed each one dropped a white shell or a black. If the black shells were more numerous than the white, then woe be to the man concerning whom the shells were cast, for he was ostracized and for ten years under pain of death must remain an exile from his native city...
...crust of the rain-sodden earth, plainly the footprints of an odd-toed ungulate mammal. Carefully, cautiously, noiselessly the tracks were followed. Several miles they went before the object of their sleuthing was sighted. Crack! spoke the Duke's rifle. With a howl of rage and pain, a rhinoceroes turned and charged at the second son of King George, York reserved his fire. Nearer and nearer the enraged animal came, its head lowered, its two white horns gleaming their deadly significance. Nearer and nearer, 50 yards, 40 yards, 30 yards-crack! a bullet sped from York's rifle...