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A little below this site there are some well-executed pictographs, and on some rocks immediately to the right some crude work of the Navaho of the same sort. To the left of the cist a round hole 6 or 8 inches in diameter has been pecked into the almost vertical face of the rock. The purpose of this is not clear.

Their voices were as though heard in a dream. There suddenly came an overwhelming sense of guilt to Mary Warren. She had been unfair to this man! He was a trifle crude, yes; but kind, gentle, unpresuming. She felt safer and safer guilty and more guilty. How could she ever explain it all to him? "I reckon they're all right now," said Sim Gage, after a considerable battle with his team.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. I strolled through the city.

Hawthorne, as I have said, has a large and healthy appetite for detail, and one is therefore the more struck with the lightness of the diet to which his observation was condemned. For myself, as I turn the pages of his journals, I seem to see the image of the crude and simple society in which he lived.

They were sometimes late from El Paso, six hundred miles to the westward. Frequently they carried guards, whose presence was generally sufficient to command the respect of the average robber. Then there were the freight trains, the motive power of which was mules and oxen. It was necessary to carry forward supplies and bring back the crude products of the country.

I take a mussel-shell, and it stands for ten pebbles, or one hundred grains of sand, or one thousand fingers...." And so on, laboriously, and with much reiteration, he strove to build up in their minds a crude conception of numbers. As the quantities increased, he had the boys holding different magnitudes in each of their hands.

Here they drew up in a line, much as the fakirs of the East Indies perform, with their crude drams, gongs and fifes in full view. "Hello, Sports!" Jimmie cried. Ned motioned to the boy to remain silent. The Captain addressed the priests in a couple of Chinese sentences, but received no immediate answer.

Crude productions of peculiar interest belong more to the earlier stages of the introduction of postage stamps.

Its style struck him as crude, not to say fantastically suggestive, in that dim old drawing room. Certainly it was not the count who had inveigled thither that nest of voluptuous idleness. One might have described it as an experiment, marking the birth of an appetite and of an enjoyment.

Never mind what the experts and scientists say; wait until the people who love the wild things and want their story made real get it into their hands!" His confidence was gratifying, but she changed the subject. "You Canadians haven't much respect for precedent?" "No; we try to meet the varying need by constantly changing means. They're often crude, but they're successful, as a rule."