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"Will you be good enough to verify the amount?" continued she, emptying the bag upon the table; "I think it is correct. You must have somewhere a memorandum of the transaction in writing."
The other animals swam in the froth and foam thus developed, now plunging to the far depths, now shooting their huge bodies into the air, and falling with a splash, as of the emptying of the ocean. The scene was so exciting that even my wonderful discoveries passed out of mind.
If I have a love to choose, I take the nearest; if a wine, the bottle close to my hand. To your health, Chicot." "Sire, you do me honor," said Chicot, emptying his glass. "Thus," continued the king, "what quarrels in my household!" "Yes, I understand; all the ladies-in-waiting adore you, sire." "They are my neighbors, Chicot." "Then, sire, it might result from this, that if you lived at St.
"And foot it a little " "Foot it a little," repeated Tom. "And swig the flowing can, And fiddle a little, And foot it a little, And swig the flowing can " roared old Tom, emptying his pannikin. "And swig the flowing can " followed the Dominie, tossing off his. "And swig the flowing can " cried young Tom turning up his pannikin empty. "Hurrah! that's what I calls glorious.
While she was emptying the milk into the pitcher with the birds on it, Mrs. Francis, with a wonderful pink kimono on, came into the kitchen. "Who is this boy, Camilla?" she asked, regarding Jimmy with a critical gaze. "This is Master James Watson, Mrs. Francis," answered Camilla with her pleasant smile. "He brings the milk every morning." "Oh yes; of course, I remember now," said Mrs.
He had to acquire a knowledge of war at the same time; and a knowledge of soldier-people and sailor-people and their ways and talk; also a knowledge of some foreign lands and their languages: for he was daily emptying fluent streams of these various knowledges, too, into his dramas. How did he acquire these rich assets? In the usual way: by surmise.
"I can't find the rivulet," he announced. "Of course you can't, you stupid man!" I laughed. "If you'll use your imagination instead of your glasses you will see it easily. The stream arose, we are told, between the summits of Twin Peaks, and tumbling down the hill-side, made its way east, emptying into the Laguna." "I don't see a laguna!" Again the skeptic surveyed the field of roofs.
John Andrews, coming back from emptying the garbage pails, went in the back door of his barracks. "Attention!" came the cry from the other end. He made his neck and arms as rigid as possible. Through the silent barracks came the hard clank of the heels of the officers inspecting. A sallow face with hollow eyes and heavy square jaw came close to Andrews's eyes.
Do you not know that when Pope Clement and the Spaniards besieged Florence, it was only by the work and virtue of the painter M. Angelo that the besieged were defended a good while, not to say, the city released, and the captains and soldiers outside were for a good while astonished and oppressed and killed through the defences and strongholds which I made on the tower, lining them in one night on the outside with bags of wool and other materials, emptying them of earth and filling them with fine powder, with which I burnt a little the blood of the Castillians, whom I sent through the air torn in pieces?
Georgie gathered a great basketful of nasturtiums, heliotrope, and mignonette to carry down to Miss Gisborne, and Marian was sent off in the village-cart with a similar basketful for Mrs. Frewen. The house was all in a confusion of packing. Frederic was wrapping tissue-paper round the picture-frames, Elizabeth counting linen and silver, the gardeners emptying the balcony boxes. Mrs.
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