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None the less did poor Milly find that time hung heavy on her hands. She had not yet clipped the wings of her ambition, and she still pined for a wider sphere in which to satisfy her vague and restless longings.
One hour after the utterance of these words John O'Leary, dressed in convict garb, his hair clipped, and his beard shaved off, was the occupant of a cell in Mountjoy prison, commencing his long term of suffering in expiation of the crime of having sought to obtain self-government for his native land.
The spirit of modern hurry was embodied in a thin, long-armed, long-legged man, with a closely clipped gray beard. His meagre hand was hot and dry. He declared feverishly: "I am hanged if I would have waited another five minutes Harbour-Master or no Harbour-Master." "That's your own business," I said. "I didn't ask you to wait for me." "I hope you don't expect any supper," he burst out.
If any intermingling of colors "from across the line" is allowed, all sharpness of outline will be destroyed. The plants must be clipped frequently to keep them dwarf and compact. Make it a point to keep the larger-growing kinds, such as Coleus, Pyrethrum and Centaurea, under six inches in height rather than over it.
Within every pulsing rose of irised fire that was the heart of a disk, from every rubrous, clipped rose of a cross, and from every rayed purple petaling of a star there nestled a tiny disk, a tiny cross, a tiny star, luminous and symboled even as those that cradled them. The Metal Babes building like crystals from hearts of radiance beneath the play of jocund orbs!
But every ticket, save, of course, the season ones and the holders of these were in every case identified was found to be properly clipped; and, in the end, every signal-box from New Cross on wired back: "All compartments lighted when train passed here." "That narrows the search, Mr. Narkom," said Cleek, when he heard this.
Because to-day I saw such dry bones move and it's an instructive if an uncanny sight." "Whose were the bones, Colonel?" called out the handsome young aide at the bottom of the table. The host, his thin, brown fingers busy at the clipped moustache, was listening to the Mayor of Gueldersdorp, who sat upon his right.
It had no "r," and she clipped it off at the end. But it is the only way in the world, and the people who so pronounce it are usually the only people in the world who can make it. "Who is Mr. Cope?" Becky asked. Mr. Cope, it seemed, had a cottage across the road from the Admiral's. He leased it, and it was his first season at 'Sconset. His sister had been with him only a week ago.
But there was his sparrow-brown hair, clipped close into the nape of his red-brown neck. If only Mamma wouldn't cry like that "Mark " "Is that Minky?" They held each other and let go in one tick of the clock, but she had stood a long time seeing his eyes arrested in their rush of recognition. Disappointed. The square dinner-table stretched itself into an immense white space between her and Mark.
Tell Possano to persevere in his silence, and that you will see him safely through. The laws against coiners and clippers are only severe with regard to these particular coins, as the Government has special reasons for not wishing them to be depreciated." I wrote to Possano, and sent for a pair of scales. We weighed the gold I had won at biribi, and every single piece had been clipped.
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