The
holes are circular.
A French artillery-man being buried in his military cloak on the
ramparts, a shell exploded, and unburied him.
In the Netherlands, to form hedges, young trees are interwoven into a
sort of lattice-work; and, in time, they grow together at the point of
junction, so that the fence is all of one piece.
To show the effect of gratified revenge. As an instance, merely, suppose
a woman sues her lover for breach of promise, and gets the money by
instalments, through a long series of years. At last, when the miserable
victim were utterly trodden down, the triumpher would have become a very
devil of evil passions,--they having overgrown his whole nature; so that
a far greater evil would have come upon himself than on his victim.
Anciently, when long-buried bodies were found undecayed in the grave, a
species of sanctity was attributed to them.
Some chimneys of ancient halls used to be swept by having a culverin
fired up them.
At Leith, in 1711, a glass bottle was blown of the capacity of two
English bushels.
The buff and blue of the Union were adopted by Fox and the Whig party in
England.
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