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Hot coffee, chops, griddle cakes, and maple syrup soon put the contending forces at their ease. Bazelhurst so far forgot himself as to laugh amiably at his host's jokes. The count responded in his most piquant dialect, and the duke swore by an ever-useful Lord Harry that he had never tasted such a breakfast.
"You mean hypnotised," interrupted Grandmother. "There ain't no such word as 'psychologised." "Well, if there ain't, there ought to be." "The pink has come out in the blood, too," Grandmother remarked, adjusting her spectacles firmly upon the ever-useful and unfailing wart. "She was wearin' pink roses on her bonnet and pink ribbon strings.
Some of them are used for oiling machinery; tar is used for dyes; naphtha dissolves resin to use in varnish; benzine is the great cleanser of clothes, printers' types, and almost everything else; gasoline runs automobiles, motors, and many sorts of engines; paraffin makes candles, seals jelly glasses, covers the heads of matches so that they are no longer spoiled by being wet, and makes the ever-useful "waxed paper"; printers' ink and waterproof roofing-paper both owe a debt to petroleum.
"We have an abundance of stones, and we can easily build a `smoking-house, with the ever-useful bamboos for rafters. We shall have time to do something before dinner." "At all events, we can make a beginning. There's nothing like setting at once about a thing which has to be done," observed Walter.
It's what makes 'em so interestin' and, as you say, 'different." Roger did not answer. He merely yawned and tapped impatiently on the table with his fingers. "What time is it?" she asked, adjusting her spectacles carefully upon the ever-useful and unfailing wart. "A little after nine." "Sakes alive! It's time I was abed. I've got to get up early in the mornin' and set my bread. Good-night."
"I'm all right," gasped Judy at last, mopping her eyes with a clean handkerchief, offered her by the ever-useful Perkins. "I'm all right but but Anne was such a goosie, and I am so happy " And with that she dropped her head on Anne's shoulder again and cried harder than ever. "Dear heart, don't cry," begged the Captain. "She is tired to death," explained Launcelot.
From here it was baled by means of the ever-useful Maconachie tin into an equally useful biscuit tin, which was afterwards dumped on the enemy's side of the parapet.
She took Jenny to the ever-useful neighbour, as she and Bill went to school; but she was rather frightened when Mrs. Jones began to grumble about these frequent visits of the child. "I was ready enough to take care of the wench when thy mother was ill; there was reason for that.
The driver, close to her tail, held fast the slender steel chain by an ingenious hitch about the ever-useful swamp-hook. When Jim shouted "whoa!" from the top of the skidway, the driver did not trouble to stop the horse, he merely let go the hook. So the power was shut off suddenly, as is meet and proper in such ticklish business.
In a few minutes he was busily employed, stripping sheets of the ever-useful birch-bark from the trunk that had fallen at the foot of the "Wolf's Crag," for so the children had named the memorable spot where poor Catharine's accident had occurred.
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