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He had not proceeded far when he found it cast up on the shore, and so full of fish that not a mesh was visible. 'It is all very fine to possess a cow, said Matte, as he cleaned the fish; 'but what are we going to feed her on? 'We shall find some means, said his wife; and the cow found the means herself.
Before the first snow which was, I remember, on November 20 our little forest colony was comfortably established, and a score of big trees laid stretched in the leaves. In our company were many fine, intelligent young men all taught somewhat, some tolerably well educated. None had been to college. I little thought at that time of becoming a scholar and a clergyman.
The result was that, after as fine a bit of rough riding as one would care to see, in which one scarcely knew whether most to wonder at the extraordinary viciousness and agile strength of the horse or at the horsemanship and courage of the rider, Darnell came off victorious, his seat never having been shaken.
Bowse, and so fine a crew as his; but at the same time he thought it would be more prudent to let him know what he had seen, and urge him to be on his guard against the speronara.
Some one capped this with a story that, on a visitor once telling Whately how a friend of his in a remote part of Ireland had such confidence in the people about him that he never locked his doors, the archbishop quietly replied, "Some fine morning, when your friend wakes, he will find that he is the only spoon left in the house." December 7. For several days visiting attractive places in London.
Her features were fine and graceful, with that mild and docile Asiatic expression, which renders any muscular tension impossible, and gives utterance only to inspiring and attractive candor. Her mouth was possibly a line too large, and her brow was unwrinkled as that of a child.
Has He not made the sky blue, the trees green, the flowers of every hue of the rainbow? Does He not paint the sky with brilliant hues? Why is man alone of his creatures to be dull and sad?" "Nay, I know not; I am unlearned in these questions. But how got you these fine clothes? Did Mistress Rachel lend them?" "Rachel has always longed to give this petticoat to me.
Great chunks of timber shot to an inconceivable height; entire logs lifted bodily into the air with the motion of a fish jumping; a fountain of water gleamed against the sun and showered down in fine rain. The jam shrugged and settled. That was all; the "shot" had failed. The men ran forward, examining curiously the great hole in the log formation. "We'll have to flood her," said Thorpe.
In the evening I heard the Liverpools and Devons were likely to be engaged in some feat of arms before midnight. So I stumbled out in the dark along the Helpmakaar road, where those two fine regiments hold the most exposed positions in camp, and I spent the greater part of the night enjoying the hospitality of two Devon officers in their shell-proof hut.
She was very smartly dressed, with a gay flowered apron, and a flycap all over glass-beads, like so many Blue-bottles. And she had a gold brooch in her stomacher, and fine thread hose, and red Heels to her shoes. She was as kind to me as ever, and told me that I was among those who would treat me well, and stand my friends, if I obeyed their commands.
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