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And a lantern without its light sinketh therein, as it telleth, and a lantern with light floateth above. As the Master of Histories saith, this lake casteth up black clots of glue. In the brim thereof trees grow, the apples whereof are green till they are ripe: and if ye cut them when they are ripe, ye shall find ashes within them.
Young people think everything's nonsense that they don't know anything about." "Good gracious!" Alice cried. "I should think I used to hear enough about that horrible old glue factory to know something about it!" "No," her mother returned patiently. "You've never heard anything about it at all." "I haven't?" "No. Your father and I didn't discuss it before you children.
As I went upstairs I thought of La Glue, of her untidy dress and her red hair, and it was she who answered the bell and asked me into an unfurnished drawing-room, and we stood by the chimneypiece. "She's talking of going to the Elysee to-night. Won't you come in? She'd like to see you. There are three or four of us here. You know them. Clementine, Margaret Byron?"
"I never thought anything about it. My sons sort of tried to tease me about the way your father about his taking up this glue business, so to speak and one day Albert, Junior, asked me if I felt all right about your brother's staying there after that, and I told him well, I just asked him to shut up.
They looked like sabots or like a lady's work-table on which lies a human tongue with taut filaments, such as one sees designed on the illustrated pages of works treating of the diseases of the throat and mouth; two little side-pieces, of a red jujube color, which appeared to have been borrowed from a child's toy mill completed this singular collection of a tongue's underside with the color of slate and wine lees, and of a glossy pocket from whose lining oozed a viscous glue.
They were put on with a glue, made by boiling scraps of dried rawhide, and were held in place by wrappings of sinew. The heads of the arrows were made of stone or bone or horn.
No books for them to glue their eyes upon. They shall learn by ear; their eyes have a better book to read in. Classics by ear and by heart, eh?" She glowed at a memory. "You wrote to me about that. You said that, before the Printing Press, people used to get poetry by heart." He looked down at her where she lay at ease. "'As I have got you, I said." She dreamed beneath her flickering eyelids.
Although these plans changed almost from day to day, and were for ever contradicting one another, they seemed so attractive that we were always glad to listen to them, and Lubotshka, in particular, would glue her eyes to his face, so as not to lose a single word.
"I don't want her old money, and I'll tell her so if she bothers me about it. I shall go into business with Van and take care of the whole lot; so don't you preach, Polly," returned Toady, with as much dignity as was compatible with a great dab of glue on the end of his snub nose.
Lots of breath is wasted on the Western Front giving silly cautions. As soon as it was dark. Wheeler and I crawled to our post which was about half-way between the lines. It was raining bucketsful, the ground was a sea of sticky mud and clung to us like glue. We took turns in listening with our ears to the ground.
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