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1. But there was always another possibility: if Thutmekri could get his hands on the hoard, it would be characteristic of the man to cheat his employers, steal the jewels for himself and decamp, leaving the Zembabwan emissaries holding the sack
2. The salon was filled with the works of modern artists; there were landscapes by Dupre, with their long reeds and tall trees, their lowing oxen and marvellous skies; Delacroix's Arabian cavaliers, with their long white burnouses, their shining belts, their damasked arms, their horses, who tore each other with their teeth while their riders contended fiercely with their maces; aquarelles of Boulanger, representing Notre Dame de Paris with that vigor that makes the artist the rival of the poet; there were paintings by Diaz, who makes his flowers more beautiful than flowers, his suns more brilliant than the sun; designs by Decamp, as vividly colored as those of Salvator Rosa, but more poetic; pastels by Giraud and Muller, representing children like angels and women with the features of a virgin; sketches torn from the album of Dauzats' "Travels in the East," that had been made in a few seconds on the saddle of a camel, or beneath the dome of a mosque—in a word, all that modern art can give in exchange and as recompense for the art lost and gone with ages long since past
3. then with my six months I would decamp
4. Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted
5. Mrs Pawkie, on hearing what I had suffered from Mrs Beaufort, was very zealous that I should punish her to the utmost rigour of the law, even to drumming her out of the town; but forbearance was my best policy, so I only persuaded my colleagues to order the players to decamp, and to give the Tappit-hen notice, that it would be expedient for the future sale of her pies and porter, at untimeous hours, and that she should flit her howff from our town
6. “You dance all night with the soldiers comes to bandaging a few wounds and picking off a few lice, you decamp hastily
7. He somehow persuaded Clover to uproot and decamp to Headley Grange, a crumbling, former eighteenth-century workhouse for poor and orphaned children
8. The EEC set up its headquarters in Brussels, though it also had a base in Strasbourg and had to decamp there once a year to keep the French happy
9. They emerge thence, and decamp from their families
10. "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!"
1. duty had decamped to the base of the tower, where a secondary
2. So we decamped to this village
3. The roll-up had gone smoothly and, with the carpet tied in three places, it had made an easy attachment to the lightweight bamboo carrying pole that had been scrounged from one of the tents left behind when the army decamped
4. He had correctly read the tea-leaves in Kampala and had decamped to London well before the enforced exodus of Asians from Uganda many years later
5. Disappointed with his lack of success with his jokes, he crawls home to his lonely bed and then resolving to do something about his marriage, he drives around to the mother in law’s place in Brynhyfryd to where Di had decamped with the kids
6. The rumor that my wife decamped would have made the rounds of the capital in a few hours
7. So Odysseus built a huge wooden horse, and hid Greek warriors inside it and left it outside the gates of Troy, while all of the Greeks decamped and sailed away
8. He hastily and secretly decamped, arranging that his resignation would not become public until he was safely in the North
9. When you decamped in that rascally way without leaving your address, I felt so angry that I resolved to find you out and punish you
10. market town called Yonville-l'Abbaye, whose doctor, a Polish refugee, had decamped a week before
11. On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and made haste to warn Javert
1. was my last day at the compound and I was anxious to help with the decamping and
2. Henri is still abbot, technically, and he sent me to reprimand Philemon for decamping without
1. Among the works of modern art were pictures signed by Delacroix, Ingres, Decamps, Troyon, Meissonier, Daubigny, etc
2. ” The “Suicide,” of Decamps, shows the body of a young artist stretched lifeless on his pallet in a gloomy room, and is painted with extraordinary force
3. ” Gericault is represented by but one picture, a noble couchant lion, but in addition to the “Suicide,” there are several other Decamps, notably the magnificently colored “Turkish Butcher’s Shop,” which, with a splendid Rousseau, the “Forest of Fontainebleau,” comes from the collection of Mr