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Nevertheless, methinks you would find it easier to tame two full-grown jaguars, fresh from the forest, than to subdue these white men to your will. But that is your affair." And with a wave of his hand he dismissed the party. "`Subdue them', said he?" muttered the ancient Insipa. "Ha, ha! we shall see; yes, we shall see!
The "Sir" of his harangue was no doubt addressed to myself more than anybody else, but he often uses it in discourse as if he were talking with some imaginary opponent. America, Sir, he exclaimed, is the only place where man is full-grown!
It is well known that within the tropics the hybernation, or more properly aestivation, of animals is determined not by the temperature, but by the times of drought. Near Rio de Janeiro, I was at first surprised to observe that, a few days after some little depressions had been filled with water, they were peopled by numerous full-grown shells and beetles, which must have been lying dormant.
He had never looked far enough ahead to consider whether he should or should not publish his work; but now ambition awoke full-grown at its birth and set him afire. He would put the work of this intellect his stories and his poems into books. He would give them to the wide world. He would win recognition for the name of Poe. He drew from within his coat the miniature of his mother her dying gift.
Why, he's over two feet tall, at the shoulder, even now much bigger than most full-grown collies. Champion Howgill Rival is spoken of as a 'big' dog; yet he is only twenty-four inches at the shoulder, Mr. Leighton says. Surely it's something to own a dog that is so big." "It IS 'something," gloomily conceded the Master. "In our case it is a catastrophe.
They may he stuffed with force-meat and roasted, basting them with butter. Cut off their heads before you send them to table. POULTRY, GAME, &c. In buying poultry choose those that are fresh and fat. Half-grown poultry is comparatively insipid; it is best when full-grown but not old. Old poultry is tough and hard. An old goose is so tough as to be frequently uneatable.
She was near, very near, a tempting green bough, and on the bough sat two full-grown lovely thrushes; they were not singing, but were holding a very gentle and affectionate conversation, sitting close together, and looking at one another out of their bright eyes, and now and then kissing each other with that loving little peck which means a great deal in bird life.
Each man took advantage of every scrap of cover he could find on the way up, but as the owner of the hut had taken care to remove all cover that was removable, they did not find much, and if the defenders had been there, that little would have been found to be painfully insufficient, for it consisted only of rugged masses and projections of rock, none of which could altogether conceal the figure of a full-grown man.
And when he yanked out the shining little silver fish there could not have been more animation and enthusiasm and excitement if he had landed a full-grown Presbyterian.
"Pity the fellow, if you like," he uttered, in his rather strident voice; "but as to condemning him, I would as soon condemn a tadpole for not being a full-grown frog. His soul is beyond his power to manage, or even to coerce, you may depend upon it." Having sipped his port, he drew a little nearer to me, and slightly dropped his voice.
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