FORE:These dispiriting losses, combined with the fall of Minorca, stimulated the public and the mercantile bodies to petition earnestly for the termination of the American war; and Parliament met at the appointed time amid numbers of such demands. Petitions came from the cities of London and Westminster, and many other towns and counties, bearing rather the features of remonstrances. No sooner did the House meet than Fox moved for an inquiry into the causes of the constant failure of our fleets in these enterprises, on which so much had depended. The object was to crush Lord Sandwich, the head of the Admiralty. Fox's motion was rejected, but only by a majority of twenty-two. The strength of Ministers was fast ebbing.
FORE: Lord Loftus, 30,000 for boroughs, and made an English marquis.CHAPTER XIII. REIGN OF GEORGE III.(continued).
FORE:Involuntarily he shrank back from a possible kick in some vital spot.All the same, Larry commented, Jeff didnt put the preserver in his fuselage, and Captain Parks could open his safe and no one else knew how, he declared! There are some things I cant work out and I wish I could.
THREE:And what she did was to say, with a deliberation equal to his own, that her mother had been a half-breed Mescalero and her father a private.Mr. Everdails cousin, Miss Serena, evidently hearing the voices, came out on the veranda and listened.
THREE:Have they discovered us? Dick pondered the possibility.
