A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.

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In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.

Their punishments for crimes were of the most savage nature: and the absurdities of the Theodosian Code, together with the ancient customs of Germany, came to be all blended into a singular amalgamation of refinement and meanness,—of brutalism and bravery.