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He lay flat on his face with his hands stretched afore him, and a revolver, the daps of mine, had fallen from his hand and dropped a foot away from it. And, looking close, I saw a big dabble of blood about him, that had come from his body and his mouth.
'Liza left the pillar, stretched herself to her full height, and came forward, tying the strings of her sun-bonnet. "'Tis the very daps of her!" was Captain Hosken's comment as he pulled out his three half-crowns.
In his agricultural connection he has his wine-festivals in the state as in the country, and the household daps becomes the more elaborate epulum Iovis, in which the whole community, as it were, entertained him at a banquet.
=Iuppiter.= We have known Iuppiter hitherto either in connection with certain very primitive survivals, or in the genuine Roman period as a sky-numen, concerned with the grape-harvest in the two Vinalia and the Meditrinalia, and the recipient at the family meal of a daps as a general propitiation before the beginning of the sowing.
Caro's only daughter, and it must be lonely for her there to-night, poor maid! Yes, good-now; she's the very daps of her mother that's what everybody says. 'But how does she come to be so lonely? 'One of her brothers went to sea and was drowned, and t'other is in America. 'They were quarryowners at one time?
'A hizzing dragonfly that daps Above his mudded pond'. #Hizzing# is an old word now neglected. Shakespeare has 'To have a thousand with red burning spits Come hizzing in upon 'em'. Lear, III. vi. 17. and there are other quotations in O.E.D. 'The glinzy ice grows thicker through'. Author's glossary explains #glinzy# as slippery.
Neither spot has he, nor wart, nor blemish 'pon his body; and when she pays 'en his wages, Saturday evenin's, he says 'Thank 'ee, ma'am, wi' a voice that's the very daps o' his father's. An' she's childless. Ah, childless woman! Childless woman! Go back an' carry word to her o' the prayer I've spoken upon her childlessness." And "Childless woman!"
"Like him in a way, but more like you," she answered; "more like you than your awn was terrible straange that the living daps o' Will! Ban't it?" Damaris regarded her son and then the child. "He be like very," she admitted. "I see him strong. An' to think he found the bwoy 'pon that identical spot wheer he fust drawed breath himself!" "'Tis a thing of hidden meaning," declared Will.
Dang me, if she didn' go straight an' turn up a complaint about 'One chemise torn in wash, an' showed me how, though sloped different ways, the letters were alike, twiddles an' all, to the very daps. I wouldn' believe it at the time, the party bein' a female in good position.
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