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Her eyes flashed in dudgeon over the comparison. "A girl is very different from a sack of salt." "Not always Lot's wife, for instance. If you keep on looking back, you don't know what may happen to you. Come on." Just then a vehicle rapidly driven was heard in the distance, and the next moment it appeared in sight. "There comes mamma now," said the girl, waving to the lady in it. Mrs.
The aggregate annual cost is usually somewhat higher in the consolidated schools, owing to the fact of a greatly increased attendance. A comparison made between the cost per day's schooling in the smaller district schools and consolidated schools almost invariably shows a lower expenditure for the latter.
This latter only takes its beginning in a sphere that lies far above the world of necessity, indigence, and struggle for existence. The question now is to what extent a man values his ego in comparison with other egos, how much of his strength he uses up in the endeavour to earn his living.
Little did they dream that bright April morning, as they rode along, that they were headed for adventures which would make the events that had gone before appear mild in comparison. "Somebody stole Percy," said Bob when they had ridden a little way. "The alligator?" "Yes. Heinrich's pet, you know." "Why should any one want to do that?"
Chalmers, and the "Four Orations for the Oracles of God" which Mr. Irving lately published, and we apprehend there can be no comparison as to their success. We believe the fairest and fondest of his admirers would rather see and hear Mr. Irving than read him.
It would be futile to attempt to describe them to Earth men, since substance is the only thing which they possess in common with any creature of the past or present with which you are familiar even their venom is of an unearthly virulence that, by comparison, would make the cobra de capello seem quite as harmless as an angleworm.
Tilbody "read his title clear" the magnitude of the big building, seen through its veil of falling snow, appeared to suffer somewhat in comparison "it is my duty to inform you that, in the words of Deacon Byram, the chairman, your presence in the Home would under the circumstances be peculiarly embarrassing.
But the future belongs neither to her nor to Russia, but, if not to England herself, at any rate to the Anglo-Saxon race, which has revealed a power of expansion in comparison with which that of other nations is too small to count. Germans who go to North America, in the next generation speak English.
One presumes there is a special size in coal-scuttles made exclusively for lodging-house keepers. I agree that while I am about it I may as well see the other room, the third floor back. The landlady opens the door for me, but remains herself on the landing. She is a stout lady, and does not wish to dwarf the apartment by comparison. The arrangement here does not allow of your ignoring the bed.
O yes, I will go and see what mischief is on foot, and be back in a minute. The room where Rollo and Prim were waiting was down at one end of the hall; and, dimly lighted as it was, in comparison with the rest of the house, it seemed almost dark.
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