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"But there was never any one so many fathoms deep in love as I. Love bandies me from the postern to the frying-pan, from hot to cold. Ah, Catherine, Catherine, have pity upon my folly! Bid me fetch you Prester John's beard, and I will do it; bid me believe the sky is made of calf-skin, that morning is evening, that a fat sow is a windmill, and I will do it. Only love me a little, dear."
A fire at night, or smoke by day, may be tempered with human ingenuity, but nature bandies the sound waves with her breath. I dined in the elegance of simplicity, and Smilax extinguished our small fire of buttonwood. Leaning my back against a stalwart pine, I watched the shadows stealing through our avenue of trees.
He was attended only by a single running footman, an Arab, a detested favourite, and notorious minister of his pleasures. 'Dog! exclaimed the irritated Alschiroch, 'art thou deaf, or obstinate, or both? Are we to call twice to our slaves? Unlock that gate! 'Wherefore? inquired Alroy. 'Wherefore! By the holy Prophet, he bandies questions with us!
From the hips upward the Llanero is straight and well-proportioned; but his constant equitation curves and bandies his legs in a manner plainly visible whenever he attempts to walk.
"A vagrant, by appearance, and probably not overburdened with honesty, is found trespassing on your property; then this individual by Gad, I feel curious to know who our learned brother for the defence is bandies words with you on the other fellow's behalf. I confess I rather like his style. I expected to hear him address you as 'old boy, or 'my dear fellow, or by some such affectionate title.
And she laughs and smiles and bandies words with him. He is amusing certainly; there is that excuse for her; but I wonder how she can do it." "What an extraordinary creature you are! To take a prejudice against a man before you have spoken to him." "He is cruel, he is cruel!" exclaimed Hadria in a low, excited voice. "He is like some cunning wild animal.
I know, you know, everybody knows; her flirtations, her affairs; every rake in London tries to boast of his acquaintance with her and bandies her name over his brandy and soda, and winks." "Look here, George," put in my father angrily, "you forget yourself. These stories are lies, every one of them! Lady Rosemary is the daughter of my dearest, my dead friend. Very soon, she will be your sister."
His irony and reckless courting of damnation open-eyed to get his gust of life in this world, make him no common villain. He can be brave as well as fierce. When the Duke insults him he bandies taunt for taunt: Brach. No, you pander? Flam. What, me, my lord? Am I your dog? B. A bloodhound; do you brave, do you stand me? F. Stand you! let those that have diseases run; I need no plasters.
A dialogue abounding in the passages I have already quoted a dialogue which bandies 'O you screech-owl! and 'Thou foul black cloud! in which a sister's admonition to her brother to think twice of suicide assumes a form so weird as this: I prithee, yet remember, Millions are now in graves, which at last day Like mandrakes shall rise shrieking.
Par Albert André. Also, there are admirers of M. Bouguereau and of Sir Marcus Stone, there are Italian Futurists and members of the New English Art Club, with whom one bandies no words. Renoir is the greatest painter alive. He is over forty: to be exact, he is seventy-seven years old.
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