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"I should be afraid, if all the girls dress as finely as you do, and know as much," said Polly, beginning to feel shy at the thought. "La, child! you need n't mind that. I 'll take care of you, and fix you up, so you won't look odd." "Am I odd?" asked Polly, struck by the word and hoping it did n't mean anything very bad.

Beside the large doors of massive silver were finely carved windows, covered in all directions with devices in the same precious metal. The rest of the court- yard was filled with images and shrines of various descriptions; a kneeling figure of Siva, a huge bell, more lions, and other sacred objects being studded throughout it in odd confusion.

The agent had developed a habit of drinking, had favoured his friends and spited his enemies, and had allowed certain distant portions of the estate to go finely to ruin, quite undisturbed by any sentimental meddling of the priestly sort.

This disappointment, joined with the narrowness of his circumstances, forced him to quit the university ; and we find him next residing at the house of a friend in the North, where he fell in love with his Rosalind, whom he finely celebrates in his pastoral poems, and of whose cruelty he has written such pathetical complaints.

Blake, and the difference in their character may be due to a difference of origin or of age. In New Mexico, sixty miles south of Fort Stanton, there are island dunes composed of finely granulated gypsum.

This, if we are too proud to search for it in the lessons of the Church, the next best thing is to go to the most ancient history of men and animals." Colonna. "Herodotus." "Nay, nay; in this matter Herodotus is but a mushroom. Finely were we sped for ancient history, if we depended on your Greeks, who did but write on the last leaf of that great book, Antiquity." The friar groaned.

Cheerful usually, even gay, brave, and ready with lines of smile; but in repose so marked, so scarred with unutterable weariness and disappointment, that tears spring in the eyes and love in the hearts of all finely organized persons who meet them. Secondly. Nature of private tyrants. Here also the statistician has not entered. The field is vast; the analysis difficult.

Fortune of war, you know," said Randolph, who, ever since his father suggested the idea, had kept telling himself that nothing would suit him better than to be captain of a company of finely uniformed and mounted State Guards. "At any rate we are going to prepare for what may happen. We are going to get up a company, and my father will equip every one who joins it.

The room is panelled with alternate mirrors and groups of allegorical subjects finely executed; and is lighted by one window, composed of a single plate of glass opening into a little spot of garden secluded from the rest. A small library completes the suite I have described, all the apartments of which are on the ground floor.

This is the basis of all the following soups, except when otherwise stated. To make this stock richer, add a turkey leg to above receipt; boil one and a half hours, then add one-half a pound of finely chopped beef. Cook for half an hour longer, then strain. To make meat jelly, add a little gelatine to the soup stock five minutes before straining.