But, ye see, the boat'll
set ye ashore at the town pier, and that's but a penny stonecast from Rankeillor's house.
Then I
set my foot upon him, drew my spear from the wound, and laid it down; I also gathered rough grass and rushes and twisted them into a fathom or so of good stout rope, with which I bound the four feet of the noble creature together; having so done I hung him round my neck and walked back to the ship leaning upon my spear, for the stag was much too big for me to be able to carry him on my shoulder, steadying him with one hand.
Beneath the second dial he found the steel pin severed as in the other, but the controlling mechanism had first been
set for a point upon the western hemisphere.
And this will now plainly appear, if, instead of serious and comic, we supply the words duller and dullest; for the comic was certainly duller than anything before shown on the stage, and could be
set off only by that superlative degree of dulness which composed the serious.
He had taken the lady as far as Fromelles; and from Fromelles she had
set out for Armentieres.
To this place caravans of Abyssinia are continually resorting, to carry salt into all parts of the empire, which they
set a great value upon, and which in their country is of the same use as money.
Almost each morning a letter from my owners would arrive, directing me to go to the charterers and clamour for the ship's cargo; to threaten them with the heaviest penalties of demurrage; to demand that this assortment of varied merchandise,
set fast in a landscape of ice and windmills somewhere up-country, should be put on rail instantly, and fed up to the ship in regular quantities every day.
Time passed on; and as the eldest son did not come back, and no tidings were heard of him, the second son
set out, and the same thing happened to him.
In 1855, Brun-Rollet, a native of Savoy, appointed consul for Sardinia in Eastern Soudan, to take the place of Vaudey, who had just died,
set out from Karthoum, and, under the name of Yacoub the merchant, trading in gums and ivory, got as far as Belenia, beyond the fourth degree, but had to return in ill-health to Karthoum, where he died in 1857.
She at once
set to work afresh and they now trusted her completely.
And now there's a mean, petty feud
set up against the thing in the town, by certain persons who want to make it a failure.
After a time, however, both prisoners were
set free, though they were banished from court.
