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Page 277 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 81 - ... letter to her sister, and never got an answer. It was in that letter I made the appointment, and there can be no doubt she got it, for she kept the appointment, kept it with a vengeance, by bringing him to the spot to point me out to him. I was blinded by the sight— there was no time to think—it didn't occupy a second: they drove past and were gone before I could recover myself. Had I known as much then as I know now, I should have taken my revenge upon the spot."
Page 10 - ... gas escapes, and the gaudy structure comes tumbling to the earth. It is of little consequence whether that fatal rent was made by a bolt launched from the hand of the Thunderer, in Printinghouse Square, or by the inevitable action of other influences, for certain it is that the aforesaid balloon, being composed of remarkably flimsy materials, must have burst at last, under any circumstances; but history will justly ascribe to the Thunderer the glory of having anticipated its fall, and brought...