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Felix had a knack of dreaming anyhow, and his dream book, while suffering somewhat in comparison of literary style, was about the best of the lot when it came to subject matter. Cecily's might be more dramatic, but Felix's was more amusing.
Of course part of Driver Jim's information was not new to Albert, but much of it was, for the Poet's letters had not been explicit in regard to the increased value of the property, and Charlton had concluded the claim would go out of his hands anyhow, and had ceased to take any further interest in it. When at last he saw again the familiar balloon-frame houses of Metropolisville, he grew anxious.
Yer know dey'd be mighty willin' ter 'blige a soldier, who'd been a fightin' fer 'em, ez you hev." "I don't a know about dat ar, Bre'er'Liab, but leastaways we can't do no more'n make de trial, anyhow." After this visit, Eliab withdrew all opposition, not without doubt, but hoping for the best, and trusting, prayerfully, that his friend's sanguine expectations might be justified by the result.
In so far as a thing is beautiful it does not, I think, demand explanation, but only in so far as it is something else as well." "Perhaps. But anyhow, inasmuch as a work of art is also sense, so far at least it is not intelligible."
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course!" July 4th. I have only to write the echoes that are in my heart, the stammering words of thanksgiving. It is nothing I have been over them. My whole being is melted with the woe of them but I can do them anywhere anyhow. And a sudden wild longing has come over me for the city.
He knew well enough that if he glanced round, and there was anyone on watch there, he would have a bullet through him sartin." "What shall we do? Shall we saddle up at once, Dave?" Boston Joe asked. "We may as well pack the horses anyhow, Boston, but we can't go till it is dark. If a party like ours were to show up there, they would see us from the village sure.
As soon as she had finished the first song, he looked up at her in unaffected embarrassment, and murmured: “Who are you, anyhow? Who are you?” “No investigations or cross-questioning, please,” replied the singer, and, blushing at the praise Daniel was bestowing on her by his very behaviour, she laughed and said, “The next song, please, that one by Eichendorff!”
"He'd BEEN on a ship, hadn't he? What was the name of her?" "I didn't ask. What diff'rence does that make?" "Wasn't Mr. Atkins at sea in those days?" put in the teacher. The captain answered her. "Yes, he was," he said. "That is, I think he was. He was away from here when I skipped out, and he didn't get back till '61 or thereabouts." "Well, anyhow," went on Asaph, "that's all I could find out.
His cab was already at the door, and we said good-bye to him on the hotel steps. He shook hands with me in silence, and turned to Robin. "Three fingers, and not too much soda, and then put him straight to bed," he commanded. Then he turned to me again. "Don't sit up and worry, old man," he said. "Go to bed, anyhow. The doctor and your womenfolk will do all that can be done.
Anyhow, the loss of an arm or two matters little, for others grow in their place. Another cousin of the Starfish is the Sea-urchin, a round prickly creature rather like the burr of the sweet-chestnut tree. This mass of prickles is not a vegetable; he is very much alive. Nature has given many plants and animals these prickles, like fixed bayonets, for a defence against their enemies.
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