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Great Raftery came upon Hilaria, a small Spanish woman, and he making a poem at the Galway dockside one sun down. The Welshman Daffyd Evans of Claregalway passed like another shadow between Raftery and the sun when Hilaria, who one night sang a song of the harlots of Cadiz, said she was of the Welshman's house. Being blind, Raftery knew more than she sang...
...here under the protecting shadow of the dome which crowns the halls of national legislation, we salute at the same time the cross of salvation and the banner of our nation. And while we send over the wide ocean our signals of love, devotion and loyalty to him who sits upon the throne of the Fisherman, we send also our respect ful salutations and our firm pledge of civic loyalty to the President of these United States...
...difference between these people and Mr. Powys lies in the fact that the latter is an artist. His book is in formed with the spirit of Africa as with a sensible presence, is haunted with the shadow of that jungle in whose twilight incredible beasts wage their truceless wars and come down by night to drink from the river-pools under the swinging constellations of the Cross- constellations that see, here and there, man's fugitive campfires, how dwarfed in that illimitable waste! Reading, one can almost detect an odor, acrid, animal, exciting -the smell of Africa...
...greater extent than that of any other lawyer in the history of American jurisprudence, the professional life of Clarence S. Darrow* has consisted in defending men standing in the shadow of the gallows with the hostile eyes of the country upon them...
...that all. The Professor has also a memory-the "recollection of a strange, hot night, and small lips pressed against mine"-all this on an Overland Sleeper, some years agone. This memory goes with him, all through the story, like Stevenson's shadow; but when he meets the cause of it again, it apparently does not prevent him from seeing her married off to somebody else, without the flutter of an eyelash...