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She was a model housekeeper, too; and her poor log cabin was the neatest and best-kept house in all that neighborhood. No woman could be busier than she. She knew how to spin and weave, and she made all the clothing for her family. She knew how to wield the ax and the hoe; and she could work on the farm or in the garden when her help was needed.
I never saw a busier person than she seemed to be; yet it was difficult to say what she did: or rather, to discover any result of her diligence. She had an alarm to call her up early. I know not how she occupied herself before breakfast, but after that meal she divided her time into regular portions, and each hour had its allotted task.
The light which can banish the oppressive, disheartening shadow of guilt must come from beyond the sun. As he entered the busier streets in the vicinity of the office, he saw a few persons whom he knew.
"If he had any more intelligence God would have put him to work in some busier place." John Derringham did not address her; he devoted himself to Miss La Sarthe. He had absolutely no diffidence.
Mr. Carlyle was proposed by Sir John Dobede, and seconded by Mr. Herbert. Lord Mount Severn, than whom not a busier man was there, would willingly have been proposer and seconder too, but he had no local influence in the place. Sir Francis Levison was proposed also by two gentlemen of standing. The show of hands was declared to be in favor of Mr. Carlyle.
For we are what we are So broke to blood And the strict works of war So long subdued To sacrifice, that threadbare Death commands Hardly observance at our busier hands. Yet we were what we were, And, fashioned so, It pleases us to stare At the far show Of unbelievable years and shapes that flit, In our own likeness, on the edge of it. The Horse Marines The Rt. Hon.
No tire-woman on the plantation was busier than Patty during the first few days of his stay. After that he grew sulky and vented his spleen on poor Tom, winning more money from him at billiards and picquet. Since the doctor was too much the macaroni to ride to hounds and to shoot ducks, time began to hang exceeding heavy on his hands. Patty and I had many a quiet laugh over his predicament.
Therefore, as she ladled out potatoes, two to a plate, she seemed, to look at her, busier than ever; and far from being grateful, might have been used to favors every day of her life, whereas all the while she was saying ecstatically to herself, "Lord, make me humble." For she saw in Mr. Jeminy all she had fancied as a girl, and lost hope in as a woman.
Henley and talk it over with her. You're showing a fine public spirit, Daughter mine, but let me suggest that you really can't do much work for the town this summer, especially if you expect to entertain guests! I don't approve of vacations that are busier than the school year!" "O, the library won't take long to start, if it starts at all.
But Aunt Melissy was a stirring person and she didn't let it take as long as it might have in another family. "She kept Uncle Silas and Winters that was the name of the hired man busier than anybody, as she never quite got over the trip to town and the way they came home.
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