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... put on her bonnet and gone down into the hall, and the "rumpus" had come. After that, everybody in the house knew that all things were astray. When the girls came home from church, their brother was gone. Half an hour before dinner Lady Fawn sent the note up to Lizzie, with a message to say that they would dine at three,—it being Sunday. Lizzie sent down word ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

... the relations of one country to another, since its application to politics would lead to a conflict of duties. The love which a man showed to another country as such would imply a want of love for his own countrymen. Such a system of politics must inevitably lead men astray. Christian morality is personal and social, and in its nature cannot be political. Its object is to promote morality of the individual, in order to strengthen him to work unselfishly in the interests of the community. ...

— Germany and the Next War • Friedrich von Bernhardi

... and Hardenberg and Strokher promptly revived the quarrel of their respective nations. Once even they slew a mammoth bull walrus—astray from some northern herd—and played poker for the tusks. Then suddenly they pulled themselves sharply together, and, as it ...

— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris

... convinced more than ever by her story that some roue had taken advantage of the girl's pitiful situation to lead her astray. ...

— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey

... Babyhood! Tell me where you linger: Let's toddle home again, for we have gone astray; Take this eager hand of mine and lead me by the finger Back to the Lotus lands ...

— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley

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