United States or Cabo Verde ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Weller; and without further invitation he gave the Reverend Mr. Stiggins a preliminary tap on the head, and began dancing round him in a buoyant and cork-like manner, which in a gentleman at his time of life was a perfect marvel to behold.
That left the dingey for Willy and the cook. I glanced at Willy. "Which would you rather chance?" I asked him, "the dingey or the duck boat?" "The dingey," said he quickly, and we both knew the cork-like quality of this stubby craft. "Very well," said I. "Call John, when the word comes to go." "Aren't you going with us?" asked Helena now, suddenly, approaching me.
This last was bad enough, but here his great muscular strength and his inexhaustible caloric, with his cork-like power of flotation, enabled him to hold his own without exhaustion until another opportunity of piercing an unbroken wave offered. Thus he gradually forced his way through and beyond the worst breakers, which are always those nearest shore.
He is just one of the careless, good-for-nothing, happy fellows, who float, cork-like, on the surface, for the world to play at hockey with: knocked here, and there, and everywhere: now to the right, then to the left, again up in the air, and anon to the bottom, but always reappearing and bounding with the stream buoyantly and merrily along.
Protests and procrastinations, approving Wegg-Prossers and cork-like Lord Feildings all this was feeding the wind and folly; the time for action had come. 'I can no longer continue, he wrote to Robert Wilberforce, 'under oath and subscription binding me to the Royal Supremacy in Ecclesiastical causes, being convinced: That it is a violation of the Divine Office of the Church.
In prosecution of which purpose, hopeful once more and elate, bobbing merrily cork-like upon the surface of surrounding circumstance although lamentably deficient, for the moment, in raiment befitting his position and his purse Mr. Verity spent two days at the Stag's Head, in Marychurch High Street.
An epic might well be written on the great novelist's journey to Africa, upon her departure from Charing Cross, shrouded in a black gauze veil, her silent thought as the good ship Empress rode cork-like upon the Channel waves, her ascetic lunch a captain's biscuit and a glass of water at the buffet at Calais, her arrival in Paris when the shades of night had fallen. An epic might well be written.
The bark is very thick and cork-like, exhaling an odor peculiarly pungent and agreeable; the buds and tender twigs in the spring have a taste entirely individual and unique, very pleasant to some persons, but quite repellent to others. Gray squirrels and the young of the fox-squirrel eat the buds and flowers as well as the cone-shaped fruit.
I considered this ungarnished manner of asking questions impertinent, and, trying to look lofty, made an attempt to pass at the side. The little girl, with a quick, cork-like movement, was there before me. "Who are you?" she repeated, her expression friendly but firm. "Oh, I I'm a pilgrim," I said in desperation. "A pilgrim!" echoed the little girl.
This was one of the disadvantages of that weapon, though the rifle was not free from a similar inconvenience; but Hay-uta fastened it to his back, so that the muzzle projected above his head and the water could not run into the barrel. Sometimes he used a cork-like piece of wood to keep the load from wetting, and again he took no precautions, but drew the charge after leaving the stream.
Word Of The Day