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And all the time she was making outcry and striking with her free wing, while feathers were flying like a snow-fall. The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living, though he did not know it.
For, when the piano was closed, he opened his eyes, and said, "Sophia, your mother tells me she has had a very nice Christmas present from the little maid you took such a liking to, little Agnes Bulteel. It is a carriage hap made of sheepskins white as the snow, and from some new breed of sheep surely; for the wool is longer and silkier than ever I saw." "Agnes Bulteel!" cried Charlotte.
Upon his inquiry, Sarria became confused. "It was a basket that he had had sent down to him from the city." "Well, I know but what's in it?" "Why I'm sure ah, poultry a chicken or two." "Fancy breed?" "Yes, yes, that's it, a fancy breed." At the ranch house, where they arrived toward five o'clock, Annixter insisted that the priest should stop long enough for a glass of sherry.
To express my meaning from another angle, in talking once with an English pottery manufacturer he said: "We do not train our labour in the pottery district. We breed it from generation to generation." In Germany they have not only been training soldiers, but breeding them from generation to generation. You may think that system is wrong. It may be contrary to our ideals.
There is an old legend among the elephant-catchers to the effect that at one time men were subject to the elephants. Yet mostly the elephants that these men knew were patient and contented in their bonds. Mostly they loved their mahouts, gave their strong backs willingly to toil, and were always glad and ready to join in the chase after others of their breed.
A strong black horse, of the old Galloway breed, of an under size, and not exceeding fourteen hands, but high shouldered, strong limbed, well coupled, and round barrelled, bore to the East Port the gallant smith.
No one can tell, till he tries, whether any particular animal will breed under confinement or any exotic plant seed freely under culture; nor can he tell, till he tries, whether any two species of a genus will produce more or less sterile hybrids.
These dogs were all mongrels of no particular breed, but were useful in hunting, and were ready to attack a fox, an animal which swarms upon the pampas, and does great damage among the young lambs. For the first three or four miles nothing was seen save the boundless green plain, extending in all directions; and then, upon ascending a slight rise, they saw in the dip before them two ostriches.
Mabyn, scarcely coherent, ceaselessly begged for mercy. "Do not kill me!" he whimpered. "I can't die! Oh, God! Not like this! I never had a chance! You kill Natalie if you kill me the breed will fix her! and my mother! You'll have three murders on your soul! I can't die yet!" "Get up!" commanded Garth. Reaching the edge of the water, he ordered him into the dugout.
But then, you know, he is always such an unwholesome- looking animal." "One of the vainest men I ever met with," said the lawyer, musing. "Oh for vanity I believe you. Leandro has not his equal for vanity." "And strong vanity, deeply wounded, by a woman too, will breed a hate as violent and vicious, perhaps, as any passion that ever prompted a crime," rejoined the lawyer, still meditating deeply.
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