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Out it came with a bolt, however, at my threat; as the kind violence of a blow on the back sometimes delivers the windpipe from an intrusive morsel. "Aughteen pennies sterling per diem that is, by the day your honour wadna think unconscionable." "It is double what is usual, and treble what you merit, Andrew; but there's a guinea for you, and get about your business." "The Lord forgi'e us!
With respect to the weight of the earth daily ejected by worms, Hensen found that it amounted, in the case of some worms which he kept in confinement, and which he appears to have fed with leaves, to only 0.5 gram, or less than 8 grains per diem.
What with shaking my head for "no" and the villagers naturally mistaking the motion for " yes," according to their own custom, I have quite an interesting time of it making them understand that I am not a mountebank travelling from one Roumelian village to another, living on two cents' worth of black sandy bread per diem, and giving performances for about three cents a time.
He can't stand it, and he's too rare and delicate a machine to go cranky thus soon. You've got the child under your thumb, bring him out o' that. Make him take a dose of Verulam, get him back into the world again, and order him four hours per diem at the dumb-bells." "Younker! do you know you're a fool?" Clarian colored up, "How, Mac?" "What are we Ned, and you, and I here for?"
"With respect to the Loyals, there are some 800 families, the cost of keeping whom is on an average one shilling per diem each family, that is £40 per diem, or £1200 per month, and they have been rationed during six months at cost of £7200. Their claims may therefore be said to be some £80,000.
The other mode is, for the medical officer to report to the relieving officer in a prescribed form, that A B is ill with consumption, and requires food per diem. The relieving officer has a veto. If, upon visiting the case, he is satisfied that the head of the family can supply the articles recommended, the relief is withheld.
With the hope of some such "find," he was anxious to investigate this particular lick, about which indeed he had heard a vague tradition of a "big bone" discovery, such as is common to similar localities in this region, and for this purpose he proposed to furnish the science and the fifty cents per diem, and earnestly desired that some one else should furnish the muscle.
My men all mutinied here for increase of ration allowances. To find themselves food with, I had given them all one necklace of beads each per diem since leaving Kaze, in lieu of cloth, which hitherto had been served out for that purpose. It was a very liberal allowance, because the Arabs never gave more than one necklace to every three men, and that, too, of inferior quality to what I served.
The allowance of beer was a pint and a half per diem to Bartholomew, and a pint to each woman; and Mr. Mr. Leather, however, did not like it. 'Puffington's servants, he said, 'had beer whenever they chose, and he thought it 'awful mean' restricting the quantity. Mr. Jog, however, was not to be moved. Thus time crawled heavily on. Mr. and Mrs.
Parlor: yellow-pine floors, spotless; green paper blinds in the windows, that hang stirless the year round. This is the kitchen: white boards, shining caldrons. William, show the soup." Mr. Muller gravely held up a ladleful: "Beef and cabbage. To each child we allow per diem three parts of animal food, three purely farinaceous, four vegetable.
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