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Sprawling over the table, making the most ridiculous blunders in counting, missing the most palpable of cannons, and failing to effect the easiest of hazards; the lady brandishing her mace in the most becoming attitudes, drooping her long hair over the cushions, and displaying the whiteness of her hand and slender symmetry of her fingers, as she requested her astonished adversary to teach her "how to make a bridge," or "pocket the red," or "screw it off the white," and lisped out "how hard it was to be disappointed by that provoking kiss!"
Pocket finishing her orange at about the same time, and not approving of this, said to Jane, "You naughty child, how dare you? Go and sit down this instant!" "Mamma dear," lisped the little girl, "baby ood have put hith eyeth out." "How dare you tell me so?" retorted Mrs. Pocket. "Go and sit down in your chair this moment!" Mrs.
Sen, a lady in her normal state incapable of lyrical efforts, lisped in numbers in her secondary personality, and detected the circumstance that Mr. Leng was on his way to see her, when she could not have learned the fact in any normal way. 'They are now crossing the stream, and will be here when the sun is about so high; which was correct. The other witnesses were examined, and corroborated. Dr.
O'Malley?" "Never," said I. "Glorious place," lisped a white-eyelashed, knocker-kneed ensign; "splendid gals, eh?" "Ah, Brunton," said Minchin, "you may boast a little; but we poor devils " "Know the Dals?" said the hero of the lisp, addressing me. "I haven't that honor," I replied, scarcely able to guess whether what he alluded to were objects of the picturesque or a private family.
Dark, dark will be my dwelling, of maple wood; and, instead of chimneys, a cross will stand upon the roof.” Eight-stringed musical instrument. Petró stood petrified, without moving from the spot, when the innocent child lisped out Pidórka’s words to him. “And I, unhappy man, thought to go to the Crimea and Turkey, win gold and return to thee, my beauty! But it may not be. The evil eye has seen us.
It was here that perhaps the greatest genius nature ever produced was born. Here he first lisped his native tongue; here first conceived the embryos of those compositions which were afterwards to charm a listening world; and on these plains the young Hercules first played.
He preserved his good looks up to his death, although some of my ladies, who saw him afterwards, told me that he could scarcely be recognized. Before his death, his stature had been diminished by a head, and he perceived this himself. His pronunciation was very distinct, but all his children, from the Dauphin to the Comte de Toulouse, lisped. They used to say, Pahi, instead of Paris.
I must not forget to say that, when young Langenmantl lisped out to me, in his usual cool indifferent way, the pleasant news as to my concert, he added, that the patricians invited me to their concert next Thursday. I said, "I will come as one of the audience." "Oh, we hope you will give us the pleasure of hearing you play also." "Well, perhaps I may; why not?"
The streets all looked so much alike. She had run along the curb, so as to be as far away as possible from the dark alley ways and the doors. And it had been a long way. Her lip quivered though she would not cry. After Cynthia's fate, just to be lost herself did not matter. "Well, don't you know where you live? What's the street? I'll take you home." "22 Patchin Place," lisped the child.
At her husband's feet, right in front of them, stood three baskets full of flowers. Halil had given them to her as a present. But at the bottom of the baskets were still more precious gifts. He draws forward the first basket and sweeps away the flowers. A bloody head is at the bottom of the basket. "Whose is that?" Gül-Bejáze, all shuddering, lisped the name of Abdi Pasha.