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But he had spent some delightful days at Cambridge; he had given better dinners than anyone he knew; and the conversation in his rooms had been often memorable. He quoted to Philip the exquisite epigram: "They told me, Herakleitus, they told me you were dead." And now, when he related again the picturesque little anecdote about the examiner and his boots, he laughed.
Washer passed his hand over his pale chaps: his smile had never wavered; he looked like one for ever lost in the making of an epigram. The punching theorist stretched his body, holding the books level with his shoulders, as though to stone his hearers with his point of view. His face grew paler, his fine eyes finer, his lips ironical.
'Then tell him he might have condensed the whole of his lumbering nonsense into an epigram: "Only the free are bond, and only the bond are free." Tell him he's an idiot, Torp, and tell him I'm another. 'All right. Come out and have supper. You're smoking on an empty stomach. There was no answer.
'Here it is, he said, and handed Merton the little volume, of a Tauchnitz edition, open at the right page. Merton read the epigram. 'Very neat and good, he said. 'Now, Merton, said Blake, 'it is not usual, is it, for ministers of the Anglican sect to play the spy? 'What in the world do you mean? asked Merton. 'Oh, I guess, the Rev. Mr. Williams!
We have been told what happens when a woman deliberates; and the epigram is not always terminable with woman, provided that one be in the case, and that a fair one. Wildeve stood, and stood longer, and breathed perplexedly, and then said to himself with resignation, "Yes by Heaven, I must go to her, I suppose!"
If Stillman Dane had been here all these dreadful things would not have happened, because he is a psychologist, and he would have understood everybody at once and influenced them before they had time to do wrong. "Jove!" said Charles Edward. "Don't you look handsome, Peg!" "Goose!" said Lorraine, as if she wanted him to be still. "A good neat girl is always handsome. There's an epigram for you.
A torrent of epigram flowed over Bordeaux. Madame Evangelista was about to leave the city, and could safely scan her friends and enemies, caricature them and lash them as she pleased, with nothing to fear in return. Accordingly, she now gave vent to her secret observations and her latent dislikes as she sought for the reason why this or that person denied the shining of the sun at mid-day.
Ah! youth with its simple puns and its full-blooded pleasures, when there is no gold dust in the hair and no wrinkles about the eyes, when the sources of an epigram, like the sources of the Nile, are undiscoverable, and the joy of being led into sin has not lost its pearly freshness! Ah! youth youth!
At Susa, the capital of the Persian kingdom, there is a little spring, those who drink of which lose their teeth. An epigram is written there, the significance of which is to this effect, that the water is excellent for bathing, but that taken as drink, it knocks out the teeth by the roots.
Everything that is not an animal or a mineral seems to be a flower. There are too many flowers, or, rather, there is not enough of anything else. The faculty of appreciation wearies, and at last ceases to take note. It is like conversing with a person whose every word is an epigram.
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