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It is one of the easiest species to domesticate, and no zoological garden is now without it; in all of which its small size being about that of a widgeon its active movements and innocent look, its musical peet-peet, and, above all, its beautiful plumage, make it a general favourite.
"Such a patron demands creatures who do as they are told, which is not the duty of a philosopher. The easiest way to dispose of a man who knows too much is to dub him a wizard. But, of course, all this is merely guessing in the dark. "The little that I do know is this.
Know, O chief Vizier, that here, where you have encountered me, God giveth you rest from fatigue and bringeth you that you desire after the easiest of fashions, in that He restoreth to you Zoulmekan and his sister Nuzhet ez Zeman, whereby the matter is settled and made easy."
Even Milton joined in the laughter at this and the day's journey was begun with great good humor. It was the easiest day's course that had been experienced since Enoch had joined the expedition. There were three rapids during the day but they rode these with no difficulties. Enoch and Jonas rowed fairly steadily in the morning, but in the afternoon, they spelled each other.
Through the suave, warm radiance of that afternoon of Spring in England a gentleman of modest and commonly amiable deportment bore a rueful countenance down Piccadilly and into Halfmoon street, where presently he introduced it to one whom he found awaiting him in his lodgings, much at ease in his easiest chair, making free with his whiskey and tobacco, and reading a slender brown volume selected from his shelves.
It has been so strong and so persistent that I recognise it now as a tendency brought over from a previous life and dominating the present one; and this is shown by the fact that to follow it is not the act of a deliberate and conscious will, forcing self into submission and giving up with pain something the heart desires, but the following it is a joyous springing forward along the easiest path, the "sacrifice" being the supremely attractive thing, not to make which would be to deny the deepest longings of the soul, and to feel oneself polluted and dishonoured.
The man said he had often heard of Peter Cartwright, and that it was the common opinion in that part of the country that among his other wonderful gifts our preacher had the power to call up the devil. "That's the easiest thing in the world to do," said Cartwright. "Would you like to see it?" The man hesitated for awhile, and then expressed his readiness to witness the performance.
I let him hold me, thinking that the easiest way. But Millard produced a paper a request from the military authorities at Fort. Craven, to arrest and hold anyone pointed out by the bearer. I talked some to that policeman, but it did no good. He took me to the station house, and here I am! Millard vanished, after saying that he'd wire the news of my arrest to Fort Craven.
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, should establish a few. When I was in college I was taught everything that it is easiest to forget. If the youth of the land were instructed in gastronomy we would all be wiser and better. Chairs on gastronomy, that is what we need!" Cassy laughed. "Why not tables?" Paliser laughed with her. The laughter was a bond. It joined them however tenuously.
Mother is working too hard. She knows everybody in the building, and they call on her all the time; and I think the easiest way out is just to move." Alma and Mr. Lossing exchanged glances. There is an Arabian legend of an angel whose trade it is to decipher the language of faces.
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