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The house being thus informed of a state of war, the commissioners brought in Received from the one-and-twentieth of the commonwealth: By £700,000 a year in bank, with the product of the sum rising.............. £16,000,000 Expended from the one-and-twentieth of this commonwealth: Imprimis, for the addition of arms for 100,000 men to
Porter's seminary, and was consequently in a highly unfinished condition. "Small Latin and less Greek" jostled each other in her head. German and French, Italian and Spanish, were strange tongues to Ivy. She could not dance, nor play, nor draw, nor paint, nor work little dogs on footstools. What, then, could she do? Imprimis, she could climb a tree like a squirrel.
It may not be out of place to supplement this little narrative by relating an incident that illustrates the fact that a man wholly devoid of any sense of humor himself may at times be the unconscious cause of amusement in others. Imprimis: The Doctor, while a member of the General Assembly, voted for a measure known in local parlance as "the Lake Front Bill."
On the contrary, it is my obvious duty to deny it, and not only to deny it but also to support my denial with an overwhelming mass of evidence and a shrill cadenza of casuistry. But the time and the place, unluckily enough, are not quite fit for the dialectic, and so I content myself with a few pertinent observations. Imprimis, a thing that is unique, incomparable, sui generis, cannot be vulgar.
Imprimis, she has a tall and majestic figure, and might be a queen for her dignity." "Go on," said Disbrowe, by no means displeased with the commencement. "Secondly," pursued Pillichody, "she has a clear olive complexion, bright black eyes, hair and brows to match, a small foot, a pretty turn-up nose, a dimpling cheek, a mole upon her throat, the rosiest lips imaginable, an alluring look "
And this is what she read: Imprimis : I give leave to Avery Mitchell, feodary, gentleman, to be Lord of Misrule of all good orders, at the Manor of Hatfield, during the twelve days of Yule-tide.
'There! said John, sitting down for the fiftieth time, and instantly starting up again to make some other addition to the breakfast. 'Now we are as well off as we are likely to be till dinner. And now let us have the news, Tom. Imprimis, how's Pecksniff? 'I don't know how he is, was Tom's grave answer. John Westlock put the teapot down, and looked at him, in astonishment.
These threats, uttered in a very decided tone, gave occasion to a consultation among the natives, by whom it was unanimously agreed: Imprimis. That stealing potatoes was a very heinous offence, more particularly in women. Secondly. That women were notorious thieves, and altogether worse characters than men. Thirdly. That beating women was an every day occurrence. Fourthly.
"Well," Manuel replies, "I have had as yet nothing save fair words from Philistia, and no alliance is concluded." "That is more than well. Only, let us be orderly about this. Imprimis, you desire Poictesme "
In intercourse with her pupils, Madame only took to herself what was pleasant, amiable, and recommendatory; rigidly requiring of her lieutenants sufficiency for every annoying crisis, where to act with adequate promptitude was to be unpopular. Thus, I must look only to myself. Imprimis it was clear as the day that this swinish multitude were not to be driven by force.
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