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Before he had thus concluded the sentence a little scorn had crept into his tone. "You make some allusion which I do not quite apprehend," said the curate. "Now, I am going to be honest with you," said Bascombe abruptly, and stopping, he turned towards his companion, and took the full-flavoured Havannah from his lips.
For it's gone now, hasn't it?" "Yes, quite out of sight," said Brace, drawing a deep, sighing breath. "Why, the river seems to be alive with alligators." "Hungry ones too," said Lynton, "and they've got a fine big full-flavoured worm for breakfast. Fancy their laying hold of his tail and pulling him away from us like that!"
West Indian negresses seem to have a natural gift for cooking, though their cuisine is a very highly spiced and full-flavoured one.
The song of a gramophone, too, was breaking forth into the air, as it were the presiding voice of a high and cosmopolitan mind. And, lost in admiration, we became conscious of the odour of a full-flavoured cigar. Yes in the skittle-alley a gentleman was standing who wore a bowler hat, a bright brown suit, pink tie, and very yellow boots.
Government has bonused him, so it is said; and his manufactured product is to be had in all the Auckland shops strong, full-flavoured stuff; wants a little more care in manufacture, perhaps. Tobacco, like some other things we have tried hops, castor-oil, spices, drugs, and so on needs cheap labour for picking. That is the sine quâ non to success in these things.
'What's wrong with 'er, then? 'It's a matter of opinion, said the waiter. 'I likes 'em a bit more full-flavoured myself. And as to 'er taste, why there, if you 'ad seen 'er turn up 'er nose at the Stilton at lunch. 'Turn up 'er nose, did she? Well, she seemed to me a very soft- spoken, obligin' young lady. 'So she may be, but they're a queer couple, I tell you.
Carefully treasuring these up, as having a fine martial smack about them suitable to the military career I then proposed embracing, I, in all innocence, fired off one of the trumpeter's full-flavoured expressions at my horror-stricken family during luncheon, to be at once ordered out of the room, and severely punished afterwards.
He would try for a divorce, and there would be no end of scandal leading articles in some of the papers, no doubt, upon the immorality of the upper middle classes; a full-flavoured essay in the Saturday, proving that Englishwomen were in the habit of running away from their husbands. But she should be far away from the bruit of that scandal.
With what good-humour the rosy sinner confesses her sins! how hilarious she is in her repentance! "The Miller's Tale" is coarse and full-flavoured, just the kind of thing to be told by a rough, humourous fellow who is hardly yet sober. And here it may be said that although there is a good deal of coarseness in the "Canterbury Tales," there is not the slightest tinge of pruriency.
A negligence deserving of the bastinado. The notion of any animal, bearing the name of fox, being served up with the trail, is too full-flavoured to be agreeable, and the dish might cause a revolt in the stomach of the least particular of Australian bush-rangers.
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