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"Abate your valour, and diminish your choler, at our request, most puissant Sir Geoffrey Hudson," said the King; "and forgive the Duke of Ormond for my sake; but at all events go on with your story."
There was mingled with this feeling a sort of vague incredulity, and a disposition to ridicule the idea that they were actually endeavouring to wash gold out of the ground; but when Larry's panful began to diminish, and the black sand appeared, sparkling with unmistakeably-brilliant particles of reddish-yellow metal, they felt that the golden dream was in truth becoming a sober reality.
Increase or diminish the pains and penalties? My nephew, Philip's boy, Philip Christian, was explaining to me the other day that if you boil water in an open bowl it just boils away, and that if you boil it in a corked bottle it bangs everything to pieces, and you have, he says, 'to look out. But I feel that's a bad image. Boiling-water isn't frantically jealous, and men and women are.
Astronomers have made accurate measurements which show that there is no diminution of the disc under these circumstances, but a slight increase since the moon is a very little nearer to us when overhead than when we see it across the horizon. It is given here in order to show that the diameter of the visible disc of the moon does not diminish as it rises.
It is conceded, and experience proves, that duties may be laid so high as to diminish or prohibit altogether the importation of any given article, and thereby lessen or destroy the revenue which at lower rates would be derived from its importation. Such duties exceed the revenue rates and are not imposed to raise money for the support of Government.
Account for the energy possessed by the oxygen of the air and food substances. Trace the energy supply of the body back to the sun. Why must both oxygen and food be introduced into the body in order to supply it with energy? How may overwork and overexercise diminish the energy supply of the body? How may one increase the amount of his energy? *Suggested Experiments.*—1.
Miss Saidie appeared instantly at the door of the adjoining room, and without seeking to diminish the importance of her offense, mildly offered to prepare a fresh bowl of the broth. "I'm packing Maria's clothes now," she said, "but I'll be through in a jiffy, and then I'll make the soup. I've jest fixed up the parlour for the marriage.
These were about eighteen pence or twenty pence a-day before the tax, and they are not more now. The high price of such commodities does not necessarily diminish the ability of the inferior ranks of people to bring up families.
We feasted on them ourselves and gave to our neighbors, and yet our store did not visibly diminish. The county fair occurred on September 22 that fall; and Addison suggested loading a farm wagon one with a body fifteen feet long with about eight hundred of the cantaloupes and tempting the public appetite at ten cents a melon.
You think to make use of him by the 'Tiber; but he has anticipated you, and learns from you all that is going on by the Nile and everything they most want to know in the Senate. "You do not believe me, for no one ever is ready to believe anything that can diminish his self-esteem and why should you believe me?
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