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It was Father Gray here and Father Gray there, and Father Gray everywhere and always! He ate with us all day and slept with us all night! The coolest cot in the dryest nook of the tent at night the shadiest seat at the table by day were always for his reverence!
She had even trumped up an excuse one day for carrying off one of Hosmer’s business letters indeed of the dryest in substance, and which, when half-way home, she had torn into the smallest bits and scattered to the winds, so overcome was she by a sense of her own absurdity.
Jumping and scrambling down hills, recklessly leaping dangerous gullies and slippery rocks, we felt that we could not hold out much longer; when on the lowest, dryest level the pack split, some went up, some went down, and others straight on. Oh, how King did swear! He knew at once what it meant. The Wolves had scattered, and so had divided the pack.
His highest moments of production are those of his deepest inner listening in which the trained mind-instrument is quiescent and receptive, its will entirely given over to the greater source within. The forenoons with the little girl before the others came, showed me, among many things, that education should be mainly a happy process. The best and dryest of the human solids is John Stuart Mill.
Lighting his lantern, La Salle stepped inside, finding himself in a gloomy but warm room, about nine feet high in the walls, and eight feet square. Taking the dryest of the fir decoys, he cut the cords which bound them together, and laying the icy branches of their outer covering on the bare ice, soon formed a non-conducting carpet of fir-twigs, of which the upper layers were nearly dry.
I cannot present the facts I have to relate in a proper manner till I know just how the case stands." "It is not curiosity that troubles Miss Butterworth Madam, I said it was not curiosity but a laudable desire to have the whole matter arranged with precision," dropped now in his dryest tones from the detective's lips. "Mr.
Finical over-accuracy about the weather is likely to discourage a budding acquaintanceship. "Have one?" He extended a gemmed cigarette-case, and when, removing my pipe, I had declined in suitable terms, lighted up, himself. He then sat down upon the dryest portion of the bench not occupied by my person. "Whiplash win in the fi'th," he volunteered presently.
"Tha' might sing th' Doxology," he suggested in his dryest grunt. He had no opinion of the Doxology and he did not make the suggestion with any particular reverence. But Colin was of an exploring mind and he knew nothing about the Doxology. "What is that?" he inquired. "Dickon can sing it for thee, I'll warrant," replied Ben Weatherstaff.
The colony of Victoria has a population of 1,000,000, and those people are said to drink 25,000,000 bottles of champagne per year. The dryest community on the earth. The government has lately reduced the duty upon foreign wines. That is one of the unkindnesses of Protection.
The quantity of rainfall diminishes as the winds blow over the foothills and the mountains, and the enormous heights of the Himalayas prevent them from passing their snow-clad peaks and ridges. Hence the tablelands of Thibet, which lie beyond, are the dryest and the most arid region in the world.
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