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"Now, Ted, we must keep watch, and pick up just as fast as they fall, or we shan't have more than a bushel, and every one will laugh at us if we don't." "The naughty quillies tarn't have 'em. I'll pick fast and run and put 'em in the barn twick," said Teddy, frowning at little Frisky, who chattered and whisked his tail indignantly. That night a high wind blew down hundreds of nuts, and when Mrs.
It is sown in April, and the quantity of seed is about one bushel and a half per acre. PISUM sativum. In the course of twenty-four hours they had swoln very much, when they were put into the ground. An equal quantity were steeped in water; and the same quantity also that had not been steeped, were sown in three adjoining spots of land.
I have for a sweetheart in all loyalty, the servant of the Lombard who is in the city near the house of our good uncle. Now I have just learned on sound information that this dear man has departed this morning into the country after having hidden under a pear-tree in his garden a good bushel of gold, believing himself to be seen only by the angels.
The humour spoiled my stomach for eating; but turning to him that I might learn more, I made some pleasant discourse to him at a distance; and at last asked him what that woman was that so often scutled up and down the room. "It is," said he, "Trimalchio's wife, her name Fortunata, she measures money by the bushel; but what was she not long since?
Now all these thoughts have a far wider application than in reference to our Lord's parables. And I may suggest one or two of the considerations that flow from the wider reference of the words before us. 'Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed and not upon a candlestick? There are no gratuitous and dark places in anything that God says to us.
Between eleven and twelve I went to the post-office, but found no letter; then spent above an hour reading at the Athenæum. On my way home, I encountered Mr. Flint, for the first time these many weeks, although he is our next neighbor in one direction. I inquired if he could sell us some potatoes, and he promised to send half a bushel for trial.
Some persons rub their windows with soft buckskin or newspaper, when they are dry and clean, to give them a polish. To Make White or Colored Washes, Dyeing, &c. Take half a bushel of unslaked lime, slack with boiling water, covering it during the process to keep in the steam.
He knew, moreover, that a shark may be cut in twain, have the head separated from the body, and still exhibit signs of vitality in both parts for many hours after the dismemberment! Talk of the killing of a cat or an eel! a shark will stand as much killing as twenty cats or a bushel of eels, and still exhibit symptoms of life.
One dreams a friend is dead and thinks she is till she is met one day in the street; or dreams of a fire and inquires about it in the morning; dreams of a present and searches the house for it next day; delays breakfast for a friend, who arrived the night before in a dream, to come down to breakfast; a child hunts for a bushel of pennies dreamed of, etc.
Hannah would readily have let the boy know that she had sent it, for she was not disposed to hide her light under a bushel; but she dared not, lest she should betray the dishonorable part she had played in reading his letter to Lena and so discovering the disgraceful secret. She was further satisfied, however, as to Miss Trevor's good faith, after she had, at her request, accompanied her to Mr.
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