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Article TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN. ← Page 3 of 13 →
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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
swinging up and clown , that they appear , ii la Spec trope , or wheel of life , to be the members of twenty—are swaying about in the midst of a great crowd of excited people . They are the appendages of a man , or rather a boy , a male human being , now up , now down ; a mob , and every individual in it trying to get a hit at the unhappy owner of the swaying limbs , to strike him , to claw him somewhere ; striving eagerlwildlto clutch at his hairto scratch his
y , y , , face , to tear his already sufficientl y ragged garments . The blows aimed at the diminutive terror-stricken wretch fall as often as not on the tall glazed hats and the blue " claw-hammers" of two stalwart policemen who , the custodians of , defend their seedy prisoner , one on either side : I dare say the worthy peace officers hacl never heard of the obnoxious Dutch statesman who was torn to pieces by an enraged mob in the streets of Amsterdam some two hundred
years before , or they would have concluded that the assailants intended to "De Witt" their captive—a verb , converted from a proper noun—which for generations afterwards popularly expressed the unpleasant process of being torn limb from joint by an exasperated crowd . Once or twice the constables have narrowly escaped "losing touch" of their prisoner ; they have been nearly overborne b y the seething , roaringpeople ; they have been down on the groundall three tors ancl captive
, , cap , rough and tumble ; you can see that by earth-stains on constabulary obsolete white cluck trousers . But they fight for the narrow wicket in the palace railings . Brave A . 00 while clutching the trembling wrist of his prey with one hand , never relinquishes grasp with the other of a common horse pistol , with a huge percussion lock of now antique construction , converted in all probability from still more ancient flint and pan , a coarse weapon , with
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trying To Change A Sovereign.
swinging up and clown , that they appear , ii la Spec trope , or wheel of life , to be the members of twenty—are swaying about in the midst of a great crowd of excited people . They are the appendages of a man , or rather a boy , a male human being , now up , now down ; a mob , and every individual in it trying to get a hit at the unhappy owner of the swaying limbs , to strike him , to claw him somewhere ; striving eagerlwildlto clutch at his hairto scratch his
y , y , , face , to tear his already sufficientl y ragged garments . The blows aimed at the diminutive terror-stricken wretch fall as often as not on the tall glazed hats and the blue " claw-hammers" of two stalwart policemen who , the custodians of , defend their seedy prisoner , one on either side : I dare say the worthy peace officers hacl never heard of the obnoxious Dutch statesman who was torn to pieces by an enraged mob in the streets of Amsterdam some two hundred
years before , or they would have concluded that the assailants intended to "De Witt" their captive—a verb , converted from a proper noun—which for generations afterwards popularly expressed the unpleasant process of being torn limb from joint by an exasperated crowd . Once or twice the constables have narrowly escaped "losing touch" of their prisoner ; they have been nearly overborne b y the seething , roaringpeople ; they have been down on the groundall three tors ancl captive
, , cap , rough and tumble ; you can see that by earth-stains on constabulary obsolete white cluck trousers . But they fight for the narrow wicket in the palace railings . Brave A . 00 while clutching the trembling wrist of his prey with one hand , never relinquishes grasp with the other of a common horse pistol , with a huge percussion lock of now antique construction , converted in all probability from still more ancient flint and pan , a coarse weapon , with