The Story of Secret Service

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Literary Guild of America, 1937 - 732 ページ
 

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681 ページ - Persons going into the other colonies may be supplied with any number of counterfeited Congress notes for the price of the paper per ream. They are so nearly and exactly executed that there is no risk in getting them off, it being almost impossible to discover that they are not genuine. This has been proved by bills to a very large amount, which have been successfully circulated. Inquire for QED, at the coffee house, from eleven p. M., to four AM, during the present month.
39 ページ - ... spoil which they had stored in their tents, and a false cry arose in their ranks that some of the enemy were plundering the camp; whereupon several squadrons of the Moslem horsemen rode off to protect their tents. But it seemed as if they fled; and all the host was troubled. And while Abderrahman strove to check their tumult, and to lead them back to battle, the warriors of the Franks came around him, and he was pierced through with many spears, so that he died. Then all the host fled before...
40 ページ - It came flying through the air," says that good knight, " like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination.
104 ページ - He told me that he had so good spies, that he hath had the keys taken out of De Witt's pocket when he was abed, and his closet opened and papers brought to him and left in his hands for an hour, and carried back and laid in the place again, and the keys put into his pocket again. He says he hath...
115 ページ - Lordship shall be sure always to know whether he has a servant to reprove, or a stranger to correct. Upon the whole, however, this is the consequence, that by this management the Weekly Journal, and Dormer's Letter, as also the Mercurius Politicus, which is in the same nature of management as the Journal, will be always kept (mistakes excepted) to pass as Tory papers, and yet be so disabled and enervated, so as to do no mischief, or give any offence to the Government.
37 ページ - If flight," said the consort of Justinian, "were the only means of safety, yet I should disdain to fly. Death is the condition of our birth, but they who have reigned should never survive the loss of dignity and dominion. I implore Heaven that I may never be seen, not a day, without my diadem and purple; that I may no longer behold the light when I cease to be saluted with the name of queen. If you resolve, O Caesar!
294 ページ - I thank you, for myself and for the army, for the immense service that you have rendered your country tttrday. " Hastily, I am your Friend, "TJ JACKSON, CSA...
588 ページ - While examining the passenger list of a Japanese vessel at Naples we have recognized the name of a theatrical celebrity from Marseilles named Mata Hari, the famous Hindoo dancer, who purports to reveal secret Hindoo dances which demand nudity.
39 ページ - From this mixture, which produced a thick smoke and a loud explosion, proceeded a fierce and obstinate flame, which not only rose in perpendicular ascent, but likewise burnt with equal vehemence in descent or lateral progress...
673 ページ - ... none be so hardy as to be found going or wandering about the streets of the city after curfew tolled at St Martin's le Grand, with sword or buckler, or other arms, for doing mischief...

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