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She had travelled over nearly all England wherever, in short, there were horse-fairs and was familiar with London, where in the studios of artists she was in request as a face model of extraordinary value.
Harrington, but begins praising you up so that she knew it must make him mad, only because men can't abide praise of another man when it's a woman that says it meaning, young lady; for my Miss Rose has my respect, however familiar she lets herself be to us that she likes. The others may go and drown themselves. Are you took ill, sir? 'No, said Evan, 'I was only breathing.
With the decline of genuine Puritanism came that peculiarly English manifestation of piety and virtue which is represented by Mr. Pecksniff a being so utterly different from Tartufe, and perhaps impossible to be understood save by Englishmen themselves. But it is in our own time that the familiar reproach has been persistently levelled at us.
"We took care to bring spy-glasses, as well as everything else that we thought we were likely to need, but forgot about a compass, which may be worth all the rest." "Well, we must be careful not to stray too far until we become familiar with the country. Let's not delay our start."
The prospect, growing continually more grand as it receded, was finally hedged about by the majestic Pyrenees, which lifted their glimmering snows against the pale winter sky. But Madame Soubirons was familiar with these scenes, and had no eyes for them.
"Anything wrong?" Weston spoke in the Indian language, with which he was most familiar. "Big White Chief," Sconda began, "the Golden Crest has been crossed. Another white man is here." "I know it," was the curt reply. "He came by water this time, so I understand." "Not by water, Big White Chief, but through the pass, over Crooked Trail." "He did! Why, Glen, you told me he came by way of the lake.
He could give a blow, as well as take one, when it was necessary. At one time his absence from church was compulsory, because he had received a black eye when defending a querulous old crone from her drunken son; he was seen about the wretched streets of the Brickfields with this too familiar decoration, but he took care not to go home until it was lost.
To him, as to his age, the only safe language was the Latin. For familiar use English was well enough. But it could not be trusted; "it would play the bankrupt with books."
"I would light the candles," said my father in a low firm voice, "but it would be helping the enemy, if enemy they are. Who's that?" "It is I, sir, Bigley," said a familiar voice. "I had forgotten you. What is it?" "I have no weapons, sir." "No, of course not. Boy, you cannot fight." "Why not, sir?"
Merely to refer to them in the most general terms would suffice for those familiar with scientific matters, but would scarcely enlighten those who are not. Wherefore let these trust the impartial Pictet, who freely admits, that, "in the absence of sufficient direct proofs to justify the possibility of his hypothesis, Mr.
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