They clambered over fences, waded through ditches, burst, heedless of briars and nettles, recklessly through hedges, and with all the speed and franticity of despair, they urged themselves towards the village, hoping and thinking that there, at least, they should find shelter from what Lord Bacon would have called “wild justice.”
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The Republicans are reaching out their negro stained hands and welcoming to their embrace everything of the whole country who will swear eternal vengeance upon the Democracy; while their offering are grasped by the Southern American-know-nothing-whigs as eagerly and with the same franticity as drowning men are said to catch at straws.
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Until therefore aught more substantial than sheer franticity of speech is brought forward, the writer finds it needful to hold to the truth of what he has repeated after other reputables about Darwin’s deathbed.
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THOSE WHO reserve week-ends for their artistic franticities also often forget one other important factor—observation.
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