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She is not double faced like Red Shirt, I was helpless, so I answered. "What you say might be right, anyway, I decline the raise." "That's still funnier. I thought your coming here now was because you had found a certain reason for which you could not accept the raise.
It made quite an outing for them. Jim moved around impassively, and chatted, now and then, with some of the men about what the horses ought to bring. The auctioneer was a clever fellow. Between the putting up of the articles, he sang comic songs, and the funnier the song, the livelier the bidding that followed.
In this way he will understand what you mean, and the essential relations for correct singing and playing will always be present in his mind; his execution will be better and his progress quicker. There is nothing funnier than what the French call "natural sol-faing;" it consists in removing the real meaning of things and putting in their place other meanings which only distract us.
"Yes," agreed Sue. "And when he sat down in the fly paper! That was funnier than this time." "I guess Miss Winkler didn't think this was funny," commented Bunny. "I guess the monkey doesn't like her." "But he minds Mr. Winkler," Sue said. "I've seen him make the monkey stand on his head."
Wallace, however, promptly took the seat; and what began to be funnier than strange, he did not get up. Not unlikely this circumstance was owing to the fact that several of the rude chairs had soft layers of old blanket tacked on them.
Regina never laughed, and only a suspicion of a smile ever played over her thin lips and her mouth, which was too small. Nothing could be more comic than to see her, looking grave and rough, dancing the jig. She was funnier than ever that day, as she was excited by the general joy. She was four years old, and nothing ever embarrassed her. She was both timid and bold.
I was pretty drunk, but I wasn't too drunk to think of it, and it came to me sudden like." Dannie stared at Jimmy wide-eyed, while he explained the details, and then he too began to laugh, and the longer he laughed the funnier it grew. "I've got to start," said Jimmy. "I've an awful afternoon's work. I must find him some rubber boots.
"Packed," replied Garth, "and the duchess has enjoyed herself. It has been funnier than usual. But now comes the event of the evening. I say, where is your score?" "Thanks," said Jane. "I shall play it from memory. It obviates the bother of turning over."
Jenkinson, our Mrs. Malaprop, and Jones junior, our "howler" manufacturing schoolboy. He was also a stout apostle of a mode of expression which he called "funny language." Thus, instead of writing boldly: "There is a rumour that ," I was taught to say, "It has got about that ." This sounds funnier in print, so Gresham said. I could never see it myself.
He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood. But as he was about to give it the first blow, he stood still with arm uplifted, for he had heard a wee, little voice say in a beseeching tone: "Please be careful! Do not hit me so hard!" What a look of surprise shone on Mastro Cherry's face! His funny face became still funnier.
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