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Gossip flies to a wider circle round the members of a great titled family, is inaudible; or no longer the diptherian whisper the commonalty hear of the commonalty: and so we see the social uses of our aristocracy survive. We do not want the shield of any family; it is the situation that wants it; Nataly ought to be awake to the fact.
The black vulture flies rather heavily flapping his wings several times with a quick repetition, and then holding them horizontally for a hundred yards or so while his short ill-proportioned tail is spread out like a fan. The buzzard, on the contrary, holds his wings at rest not in a horizontal position, but bent considerably upward.
The true water leech also abounds in the marshes and ponds of the island, and is quite destructive to animals which frequent these places. Domestic buffaloes seek the ponds in which to submerge their bodies to get rid of stinging flies and voracious mosquitoes, but they sometimes lose their lives by the combined attack of these more formidable enemies, the water leeches.
Her head flies away, just as a leaf is whirled away by the wind; and she is a true woman, or, rather, girl, for she is moved or made angry in a moment, starting off at a gallop in affection, just as she does in hatred, and returning in the same manner; and she is pretty as you know, and more charming than I can say as you will never know.
It has been said that Christianity enervated the English and gave them over into the hands of the fresh and robust sons of nature. Asceticism and the abuse of monachism enervated the English. Asceticism taught the spiritual selfishness which flies from the world and abandons it to ruin instead of serving God by serving humanity.
The living quarters were bad, too: shacks, with free straw on the floor for beds, and mud deep in the dooryards where the campers emptied water. Over it all hung a sick smell of garbage and a cloud of flies. It was no wonder that scores of children and some older people were sick.
You have been having quite a vacation, haven't you? Let's see, it's two years, isn't it?" "Three years!" Emerson replied. "Impossible! Dear, dear, how time flies when one is busy." "Boyd has been telling me of his adventures," said Mildred. "He is going to dine with us." "Indeed." Mr. Wayland displayed no great degree of enthusiasm.
"He died four years ago, come next Shevuos." "I'm so sorry," said Esther, pausing in her tea-drinking with a pang of genuine emotion. "At first I was afraid of him, but that was before I knew him." "There never beat a kinder heart on God's earth," said Debby, emphatically. "He wouldn't hurt a fly." Esther had often seen him snapping at flies, but she could not smile.
He buckled to his work in earnest. With a few more casts he soon got into the way of managing the big rod; and every time the flies fell lightly on the other side of the pool, to be dragged with gentle jerks across the foaming current of the stream. Ingram went back to his couch on the rock.
They calculated things by the shape of clouds, by lengths of shadows, by the flight of birds, by two flies racing on a flat stone, by throwing bones over their left shoulders, and by every kind of trick and game and chance that you could put a mind to. They told Fionn he must sleep in a tree that night, and they put him under bonds not to sing or whistle or cough or sneeze until the morning.