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Perhaps she herself might be destined to die on the highway, without consolation, the very next day; but she could save this unhappy woman from it, and render her end easier. Oh, how rich Lienhard's gold coins made her! Yet if, instead of three, there had been as many dozens, she would have placed the larger portion in the twins' pillows. How it must soothe their mother's heart!
Furthermore, a cow with full udders was mooing in the yard, and dozens of chickens with innumerable broods were cackling incessantly. The flour kneaded and baked by his servant, and the coffee thick as mud, was all that the Triton purchased with his money. If he hunted for a bottle of brandy on his return from a swim, it was only to use it in rubbing himself down.
Lannigan and Whitey Mack would be together the odds would be two to one against him and he had no quarrel with Lannigan somehow he must let Lannigan out of it. The other side of the street was less crowded. He crossed over, and, still with the shuffling tread that dozens around him knew as the characteristic gait of Larry the Bat, but covering the ground with amazing celerity, he hurried along.
"Yes," continued that lady, with more animation than she had experienced for many months past, so invigorating was the change of moral atmosphere induced by this little breeze of instruction; "yes, the ice and snow cover the hills and higher valleys for dozens and dozens of miles round here in all directions, not a few inches deep, such as we sometimes see in England, but with thousands and millions of tons of it, so that the ice in the valleys is hundreds of feet thick, and never melts away altogether, but remains there from year to year has been there, I suppose, since the world began, and will continue, I fancy, until the world comes to an end."
Within its hospitable portals, hungry bipeds of the male persuasion were supplied, to their intense satisfaction, with abundant oysters, and unlimited foaming Dublin stout. Oysters were then five shillings the barrel of ten dozens! Tempora mutantur; spero meliora! It was a great loss to social and artistic Birmingham when Captain Tindal was removed to London, twenty-one years ago.
Wickfield, shaking his head and smiling incredulously. 'A mixed fiddlestick, returned my aunt. 'You claim to have one plain motive in all you do yourself. You don't suppose, I hope, that you are the only plain dealer in the world? 'Ay, but I have only one motive in life, Miss Trotwood, he rejoined, smiling. 'Other people have dozens, scores, hundreds. I have only one. There's the difference.
Li-chiang is a fur market of considerable importance for the Tibetans bring down vast quantities of skins for sale and trade. Lambs, goats, foxes, cats, civets, pandas, and flying squirrels hang in the shops and there are dozens of fur dressers who do really excellent tanning.
Cliff, "and then wrap them up and take them to Miss Shott as a present from me." "Take them to Nancy Shott!" cried Willy. "I never heard of such a thing in my life! She's able to buy blankets, dozens of them if she wants them, and to take to her such blankets as the ones you brought from California, why it takes my breath away to think of it!" "But you must take them to her," said Mrs. Cliff.
"I wish we could find and shoot dozens of them, but I don't long for the task of skinning them; they are so delicate and likely to tear." "Like all the birds related to the cuckoos," said my uncle; "but we were very successful over this. By the way, Pete is getting very handy in that way.
After-dinner boozing and three-bottle men are a tradition of the dark ages; and yet there are dozens of young men in London gifted young men some of them who are doing this thing every year. Half the untimely deaths you hear of might be traced home to the brandy bottle, if a man had only the curiosity to look into first causes. One man dies of congestion of the lungs.
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