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Gold I've seen, and turquoise I've kicked out of the cliffs, and there's garnets in the sands of the river, and here's a chunk of amber that a man brought me. Call up all the priests and, here, take your crown. "One of the men opens a black hair bag and I slips the crown on. It was too small and too heavy, but I wore it for the glory.
Festus Willard is bitten by a mad dog, every dog-chase for the week following is news. When a martyred suffragette chews a chunk out of the King of England, the local meetings of the Votes-for-Women Sorority become a live topic. If ever you get to the point where you can say with certainty, 'This is news; that isn't, you'll have no further need for me. You'll be graduated."
Never was a great hand at tailorin', nohow, and Pete's hide was that tough I mostly had to pound the needle through with a chunk of wood. "Well, I fixed him comfortable as I could, and prepared to start. "'Zeke, says he, 'don't' he kinder swallered hard 'don't be no longer'n you kin help, says he. There come a tear in his eye. 'An' take my respects to Maggy, says he.
One ways, I ain't got nothin' I kin tell you; t'other ways, you ain't got nothin' I 's gwine to let you tell me. I 's axin' you to git. En," finished Neptune, "dat t'ing done went right out whish! same lak I 's tellin' you! Yessuh! hit went spang out!" He threw another chunk of fatwood on the fire, and watched the smoky flame go dancing up the chimney.
Moreover, she hoped that Chunk would soon return with no end of "Linkum men," and then her silence would be rewarded. Supper was sent up to Miss Lou and her guest, and the old woman, having at last some sense of security, made her first good meal since "things began to happen." Then she hankered after her pipe. "I'll get it for you," said the warm-hearted girl.
"If it's an enchantment, it looks as if the magician had transformed Ozma into a chunk of pitch." The Little Pink Bear Speaks Truly For several minutes they all stood staring at the black spot on the canvas of the Magic Picture, wondering what it could mean. "P'r'aps we'd better ask the little Pink Bear about Ozma," suggested Trot. "Pshaw!" said Button-Bright, "he don't know anything."
A finite event occupies a limited chunk of this manifold in a sense which I now proceed to explain. Let e be any given event. The manifold of event-particles falls into three sets in reference to e. Each event-particle is a group of equal abstractive sets and each abstractive set towards its small-end is composed of smaller and smaller finite events.
The lashing was cut by a rifle-ball, the trees regained their straight position with a snap like whips, and that was the way Gilbert Gates came to his end. Behind the mountains that gloom about the romantic village of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, was once a lake of clear, bright water, its winding loops and bays extending back for several miles.
"Dolores!" he warned her. "Yes," she went on, pretending to misunderstand him. "Wouldn't it be awful? a chunk of petrified wood plunking into a can of woodpulp!" "I wish you to remember, Miss Gantry " he began, "Don't fret," she impatiently interrupted. "I'll not forget 'Miss Gantry, and I wish you wouldn't so often. 'Dodie, 'Dodie, 'Dodie, all the evening. It's monotonous." "Indeed.
"What do you think of that?" he inquired casually, handing over a chunk of ore; but she gazed at it uncomprehendingly. "Isn't there anything I can do?" she began at last, "that will make you change your mind? I might give you this much money now and then pay you more later, when I go to teaching school."
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