A plank is a flat piece of timber, sawn and planed; it is technically distinguished from a board[?] by its greater thickness, and should measure from 2 to 4 inches (5.08 to 10.16 cm) in thickness and from 10 to 11 inches (25.4 to 27.94 cm) in width.
made the republic.html">republic eminent among the nations, with the fiction of a horde
familiar at the antipodes. Not only were the intrenchments bastions,
miracle in the eyes of these newly arrived Oriental ambassadors, but they
spectacles. Evidently the amity of the stadholder.html">stadholder and his commonwealth
barbarous than he had ever deemed the Dutchmen to be, had he not well
with honourable obsequies at Middleburg, a monument being raised to his
maintain close relations with the republic.
There had been other visitors in Maurice's lines before Grave at about
archduke Count of Bruay, had obtained permission to make a visit to a
hospitably entertained at the stadholder's table. Maurice, with
wheels, the sausages, and other newly-invented machines, employed before
capture a city.html">city, defended by mighty armies and fleets.
"If the archduke has set his heart upon it, he had far better try to buy
did Maurice rate the position and advantages of the city. He would
long as the siege.html">siege of Troy.
"Ostend is no Troy," said Spinola with a courtly flourish, "although
and an Italian Achilles." The last allusion was to the speaker's
be heard in the world from that time forth.
Meantime, although so little progress had been made at Ostend, Maurice
place surrendered, after sixty days' siege, upon the terms usually
of war. Those of the inhabitants who wished to leave.html">leave were to leave;
republic, and abstaining in public from the rites of the Roman Church,
opinions, or any interference within their households.
The work went slowly on before Ostend. Much effect had been produced,
.
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