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He was the biggest and strongest and therefore most lovely thing on board the ship, and that sufficed her. As for him, the child manifestly loved and trusted him, and that was all-in-all to his weary, desolate heart. The fifth day out the weather began to change; the waves grew more and more mountainous as the day wore on and the ship advanced west.
"Um-m-m, um-m-m," mumbled Buster Bear with his mouth full, as he moved along to another patch of berries. And then he gave a little gasp of surprise and delight. Right in front of him was a shiny thing just full of the finest, biggest, bluest berries! There were no leaves or green ones there. Buster blinked his greedy little eyes rapidly and looked again. No, he wasn't dreaming.
'You are my father, he told one bone, 'and you are my mother. You are the biggest, he said to the third, 'so you shall be the ogre who wants to eat me; and you, to another, 'are very little, therefore you shall be me. Now, then, tell me what I am to do.
"Mr. President, no man values your great qualities more than I do or reprobates more heartily such vulgar libels. But it is true that you lack executive experience. I have been the Governor of the biggest State in the Union, and possess some knowledge of the task. It is all at your service. Will you not allow me to ease your burden?" Lincoln smiled down kindly upon the other.
He wants to make it the biggest Sunday-school in Chicago. It's an ambition of his. Laura," she exclaimed, "he's a fine man. No one knows Curtis Jadwin better than Charlie and I, and we just love him. The kindliest, biggest-hearted fellow. Oh, well, you'll know him for yourself, and then you'll see!" "I don't know anything about him," Laura had remarked in answer to this.
He picked up from his open suitcase a folded newspaper which he had tossed in half read, on leaving the city, and drew for her a crude diagram of the heart and major arteries. "This biggest pipe which goes downward from the heart is called the great artery, and it and its branches just like a tree's carry the blood into all parts of the body, except the lungs.
So Montague visited the Snow Palace again, and met Winton Duval, the banker, a tall, military-looking man of about fifty, with a big grey moustache, and bushy eyebrows, and the head of a lion. His was one of the city's biggest banking-houses, and in alliance with powerful interests in the Street. At present he was going in for mines in Mexico and South America, and so he was very seldom at home.
In what part of the Pacific there would be time later on to determine. Before everything he must think as soon as the day came of how to leave the rock, which in its biggest part could not measure more that twenty yards square. But people do not leave one place except to go to another.
"Yes, I'll take two bunches of asparagus, and some peas." "Any strawberries? natives?" suggested Gates. "Nonsense!" "Same thing; natives of Norfolk." "You had better be honest with me, Mr. Gates," said Mrs. Munger. "Yes, I'll take a couple of boxes." "All right! Want 'em nice, and the biggest ones at the bottom of the box?" "Yes, I do." "That's what I thought.
I couldn't have moved out of the way of that truck any more than I could have flown. I realize it more and more. You did me the biggest service one man can do another, and I'm not going to forget it, Spotty." "No, I guess remembering is your long suit, Colonel." "Well, that's all in a day's work. I didn't forget you, Spotty. Now, as I said, you saved my life.
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