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He is, perhaps, a gentleman of somewhat stunted growth, but of full habit, and somewhat noticeably red between the ear and the neck-stock?" "That hits him." " with a wife inclining to portliness and six grown daughters, taller than their parents and not precisely in their first bloom. I speak," added the Collector, still eyeing his victim, "as to a man of the world." "You've seen him anyhow," Mr.

We amuse ourselves every morning with looking at the pert little birds, as queer as the boobies, though quite different from them, that sit and nod to each other incessantly, and give each other little hits with their bills, as if these were their morning salutations, a rough way of asking after each other's health. SAN FRANCISCO, July 2, 1865.

But the biggest sacrifice hit that was ever made was made by Christ when He was crucified on Calvary, in order that the world might know that God was a Father and loved His children. And every boy and girl who would follow in the footsteps of Christ, and would be strong and noble, must be prepared to make sacrifice hits, to forget themselves and do things for the sake of others.

I'd like to see any o' youse pretendin' you was dead while a big bear was poundin' you that hard that you begin to believe you ain't shammin'. An' when that ugly brute hauls off an' hits me agen, I decides then an' there that there's no occasion to sham it.

You mean to do everything you can to gain possession of the property, and to get a slice of it at any rate "Oh, I am not blaming you," Fraisier continued, in answer to a gesture from his client. "It is not my place to do so. This is a battle, and you will be led on further than you think for. One grows full of one's ideas, one hits hard " Another gesture of denial.

I suggested," he continued, turning to the priest, "that she should let the girl be taken home, and send a royal present to the father." "And the princess?" asked the priest. "She acted, as she always does, on her own judgment," replied the master of the ceremonies. "And that always hits on the right course," cried the wife of Mena. "Would to God it were so!" said the princess in a subdued voice.

"The ties him down an' throws him in the bottom of a polin'-boat," ol' Jim explained. "Come right in here, they did, an' takes him out of that there chair there in the corner, an' three more drunks they finds under the pianny. I tell you-alls the whole camp hits up the Yukon for Dawson jes' like Sam Scratch was after them, wimmen, children, babes in arms, the whole shebang.

No harm whatever was intended; but, looking back upon the incident, one can see that the hits, if innocently meant, coming as they did from the marshal's household, were certainly lacking in discretion.

Germany and Japan are already realizing what the inevitable result will be when the total strength of the United Nations hits them at additional places on the earth's surface. One of the principal weapons of our enemies in the past has been their use of what is called "The War of Nerves."

I should have indeed to cure myself of hesitation first. I see too many ways of saying things; a more decided mind hits on the right way at once. Singleness of phrase implies courage, self-confidence, clear-sightedness. To attain it there must he no doubting, and I am always doubting. And yet "Quiconque est loup agisse en loup; C'est le plus certain de beaucoup."