He saw that these natives were all secured by neck chains and he also saw that the troops were composed of native soldiers in
German uniforms.
The world of the
German literate consisted solely in bringing the new French ideas into harmony with their ancient philosophical conscience, or rather, in annexing the French ideas without deserting their own philosophic point of view.
This done, she put the light back on the table, and going to the window, listened for the first sounds of the
German advance.
Where or when I first acquainted myself with his most fascinating genius, I cannot be sure, but I think it was in some article of the Westminster Review, where several poems of his were given in English and
German; and their singular beauty and grace at once possessed my soul.
I explained our circumstances to her skipper and asked for food, water and oil; but when he found that we were not
German, he became very angry and abusive and started to draw away from us; but I was in no mood for any such business.
But it is curious that so discredited were the newspapers of that period that a large majority of New Yorkers, for example, did not believe the most copious and circumstantial accounts of the
German air-fleet until it was actually in sight of New York.
The little party came slowly onward, the prisoners staggering beneath heavy cans of oil, while Schwartz, one of the
German noncommissioned officers cursed and beat them with a stick of wood, impartially.
It is a pain to me to this day, to remember how that old
German Lear raged and wept and howled around the stage, with never a response from that hushed house, never a single outburst till the act was ended.
They said it was so funny that, when Herr Slossenn Boschen had sung it once before the
German Emperor, he (the
German Emperor) had had to be carried off to bed.
There was visiting the watering-place that year a real
German Fuerstin, in consequence of which the crystallizing process went on more vigorously than ever.
"Just see, the
German sausage is making tracks, too!"
I was attending to some of our fellows and got very near to the
German lines.