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"That isn't my own," he confessed. "I cribbed it from a clever Englishman. But I believe it's true." "I think I'll adopt her," said Mrs. Maturin to Insall, when she had repeated to him the conversation. "I know you are always convicting me of enthusiasms, Brooks, and I suppose I do get enthusiastic."
“Ah, Monsieur!” he said one day, “little would you think, to see me cribbed up in this miserable bed, that I had been a soldier, or that the happiest days of my life had been passed in the woods of Fontainebleau, following the chase in the retinue of King Charles the Tenth of France.
He could not stand it that Elsmere should be so much narrowed and warped by that wife of his, and her prejudices. Why should that gifted creature be cribbed, cabined, and confined in this way? 'I grant you, said Robert, with a look of perplexity, 'there is not much to prevent it.
"That isn't my own," he confessed. "I cribbed it from a clever Englishman. But I believe it's true." "I think I'll adopt her," said Mrs. Maturin to Insall, when she had repeated to him the conversation. "I know you are always convicting me of enthusiasms, Brooks, and I suppose I do get enthusiastic."
The noble edifice has the advantage of a commanding situation; not, it is true, as to elevation for that is impossible in a city set throughout on a dead level but the surface area in its wide sweeping circuit at all events contrasts strikingly with that cribbed and cabined church-yard of St. Paul's in London, which the Englishman may have just left behind him. Yet St.
Will they allow a whole continent to live like beasts in such hovels, millions of negroes cribbed, cabined, and confined in dens of disease? No doubt it is our diurnal duty to preach that the soul of all improvement is the improvement of the soul. But God's equilateral triangle of body, soul, and spirit must never be ignored.
Judy still looked pale and tired, and her cough was rather troublesome; but she was fast getting her high spirits back, and was enjoying her adventure immensely. The only drawback was the cribbed, cabined, and confined space of the loft. "You will HAVE to arrange things so that I can go for a run," she said one morning, in a determined manner.
He looked up ardently. "Why? It's only the living fire that matters! Darling let's come to close quarters. You gave a bit of your warm heart to Philip, and you imagined that it meant much more than it really did. And poor Philip all the time was determined cribbed and cabined by his past, and now by his boy.
In replying the girls discovered they were not the only ones up late, and presently the entire party had assembled in the beautiful chintz dining room, and the ices were being served between good-natured "jollyings." "That hair cut went to your head," Ned told Tavia, "but wait until I go down for the tresses, I'll scare Mike stiff make him believe we thought he had 'cribbed' them."
"No sloped," said Sam, shortly, "cribbed some other chap's papers I guess went abroad we don't know don't want to, either." The fierce hostility and resentment in the boy's voice made it clear to Christopher this was evidently a subject better dropped.
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