United States or Saint Barthélemy ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Even when out and raging to and fro in a wild state, more than half-disposed to rend our mansions, and split our steeples, and wreck our ships, we have only to provide him with a tiny metal stair-case, down which he will instantly glide from the upper regions to the earth without noise or damage.
How each group examines the other half-disposed to join in each other's sports, but withheld by a vague fear of making the first advances a fear which indicates that even already civilisation and the artificial habits it engenders, have taught them the restraint it imposes! The nurses, too, scrutinise each other, and their little masters and misses, as they meet.
"I'll let her see... I'll make her understand," she repeated angrily; and for a moment she was half-disposed to drive to the station and take the first train back. But the sense of her precarious situation withheld her; and presently, with bitterness in her heart, she got up and began to stroll toward the shops.
"Have the extreme goodness," said Felix, who began to be considerably mystified by the serious air of the other, and half-disposed to believe that he might have some knowledge of the mystic characters, "to tell me who this little note is intend for."
"I won'er what I done, Masser Mile, dat you want to pay me wages, like a hired man!" said Neb, half-disposed to resent, and half-disposed to grieve at the proposal. "I was born in de family, and it seem to me dat quite enough; but, if dat isn't enough, I went to sea wid you, Masser Mile, de fuss day you go, and I go ebbery time since."
Faith, I'm half-disposed to make ye throw the stirrups over the nag's neck, and I would if we'd toime. But we've none to spare for picking ye up when ye came off. Here," he cried to the two men next behind, for we now rode two and two; "why are your carbines not full-cocked rifles, I mane? That's right. Fire at wanst if he tries to bowlt; don't wait for ordhers."
Word Of The Day