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Day after day she waited with ill-concealed dread for further tidings, and at length a messenger came from her lord, from whom she learned that more battles had been fought, that the king was released from prison, but that the young Duke of York had been proclaimed king in London, by the title of Edward the Fourth.— The Grateful Indian And other Stories
Captain Blundel seemed quite at home with the mountaineers, selected some to carry the body up the hill, sent a couple to guard the door of Mr Englefield's hut, lest the tidings should be carried to him hastily, and, lastly, to my great delight, took measures to procure surgical help for him as quickly as possible That is a blessing I dared not hope for," I exclaimed; "they told me there was no surgeon to be found in Montenegro And they told you right;" he answered, "but happily at this moment, it is otherwise.— The Grateful Indian And other Stories
The good tidings are announced to all, he who has an ear to hear hastens to learn the secrets.— Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
But these men who have now been named lived all at one and the same time Next to this befell those tidings, the best that ever have befallen here in Iceland, that the whole land became Christian, and that all folk cast off the old faith CHAPTER VI.— The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875
When the news came--tidings which a year ago would have thrilled her with pleasure--Olive only smiled faintly, and a few minutes after went into her chamber, locked the door, and wept There was not, and there could not be, any difference made in her ordinary way of life.— Olive A Novel

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