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Dr Johnson would not hurt her delicacy, by insisting on 'seeing her bedchamber', like Archer in The Beaux' Stratagem. But my curiosity was more ardent; I lighted a piece of paper, and went into the place where the bed was.
She had eaten goodness knows how much ice cream, because she sat at table between Reddy Johnson and Bernard Thomas, and every time Carrie David or any one asked them if they wanted any more ice cream, Bernie had put their saucers in his lap, and told Carrie that they hadn't had any yet.
"If he's a friend of yours, señor, I'm afraid you'll have to go by without recognizing him," he said. "He is not," replied Pachuca. "My friends are better horsemen than that." "It's Tom," laughed Scott, suddenly. "He's come after me. Slow down, señor, if you please." Johnson, riding rapidly, swerved suddenly to one side as the big machine without lights came toward him. "What the " he began.
It is indeed pointed at the top; but one side of it is larger than the other. Another mountain I called immense. JOHNSON. 'No; it is no more than a considerable protuberance. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head; but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude.
Taste, my dear, is various; there is nothing so various, and even between persons of the best taste there are diversities of opinion on the same subject, for which it is by no means possible to account. To John Johnson, Esq. Weston, June 7, 1790. You never pleased me more than when you told me you had abandoned your mathematical pursuits.
What does he mean by that?" "Peckish, my dear, is hungry," explained Robin, as they went into the cave together. They found that Johnson was not only peckish but curious, and thirsting for information as well as meat and drink.
Fox's praise cannot augment it, nor his censure diminish it. SIR JOSHUA. 'But his friends may suspect they had too great a partiality for him. JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, the partiality of his friends was always against him. It was with difficulty we could give him a hearing.
Orion Tevis," repeated Jack. "Step right in here," the elderly man said. "Johnson, you may go down into the basement and finish your work," he added to the porter who hurried away, probably feeling as though he had grown several inches shorter. "Now what is this about Mr. Tevis?" asked the man. "I am Mr. Snell, cashier of the bank." "I want to find Mr.
He is never what we call hum-drum; never unwilling to begin to talk, nor in haste to leave off. BOSWELL. 'Yet he can listen. JOHNSON. 'No: I cannot say he is good at that . So desirous is he to talk, that, if one is speaking at this end of the table, he'll speak to somebody at the other end.
But nothing could withstand the fury of Colonel Basil Duke’s attack, whose command had the advance. General Johnson and many of his men were taken prisoners, and the remainder were scattered. In this engagement the Federals lost two hundred men, killed, wounded, and missing. Their general himself was a prisoner. Thus, to their cost, they found that when the occasion demanded it Morgan would fight.
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