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In the inner midlands and the Severn vale, where the proportion of Celtic blood becomes much stronger, the termination grows still softer in Leicester, Bicester, Cirencester, Gloucester, and Worcester, while at the same time a marked tendency towards elision occurs; for these words are really pronounced as if written Lester, Bister, Cisseter, Gloster, and Wooster.
She looked white and spent; there were bister circles round her eyes. "'I am tired, she said, with dry lips. 'You will excuse me, Mr. Marshfield, I must really go to bed. "'Go to bed, go to bed, cried her husband gayly. Then, quoting in Russian from the song she had just sung: 'Sleep, my little soft white dove: my little innocent tender lamb! She hurried from the room.
'Bister Ford, without codsulting me I do not cobbedt on the good taste or wisdob of his actiod dispatched White to apply for the post of butler at this ah house, his predecessor having left at a bobedt's dotice, bribed to do so, I strodgly suspect, by Bister Ford himself. I bay be wrodging Bister Ford, but do dot thig so. I thought the reasoning sound.
Paris was in his mind, Paris and mademoiselle, whose letter lay warm against his heart. He turned to his mother's portrait, and again bowed, sweeping the floor with the plume of his hat. "Madame, yours was a fortunate escape. Would that I had gone with you on the journey. Have you a spirit? Well, then, observe me; note the bister about my eyes, the swollen lips, the shaking hand.
'Wud of Bister Fagid's lads, exclaimed Barney, with a grin. 'Fagin's, eh! exclaimed Toby, looking at Oliver. 'Wot an inwalable boy that'll make, for the old ladies' pockets in chapels! His mug is a fortin' to him. 'There there's enough of that, interposed Sikes, impatiently; and stooping over his recumbant friend, he whispered a few words in his ear: at which Mr.
In these ambitions she succeeded to a moral; and when, in addition, thanks to the cold in her head, she pronounced all her m's b's and her n's d's, the result was exhilarating in the extreme. "There's dot bady bed dicer-looking that Bister Tobby and Biss Oblett," said she, flourishing her mop in Miss Omlett's face.
It was the irony of fate that, on the one occasion when duty really summoned that champion popper-up-to-London to the Metropolis, he should be unable to answer the call. 'Very well, I said. 'I'll go and look out a train. 'Bister Glossop, you will be in charge of the school. Perhaps you had better go back to the boys dow. White was in the hall when I got there.
The tension of the situation had begun to tear at my nerves. 'Cub id, Bister Burds, said my employer, swallowing a lozenge. His aspect was more dazed than ever. 'White has just bade an ah extraordinary cobbudicatiod to me. It seebs he is in reality a detective, an employee of Pidkertod's Agedcy, of which you have, of course ah heard. So White had revealed himself.
'Bister Sikes! exclaimed Barney, with real or counterfeit joy; 'cub id, sir; cub id. 'Here! you get on first, said Sikes, putting Oliver in front of him. 'Quicker! or I shall tread upon your heels.
And now a vast, open plain was seen to be spreading away, away to indeterminable distances; a plain the further limits of which veiled themselves in bister and dull ocher vapors. The aureate shimmer on the sky kept steadily increasing, from a point somewhat to the left of Nissr's line of flight. What this might be, none could guess. None save the Master.
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