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The latter, the account proceeded, with a foreknowledge of the projected transportation, had secured for little or nothing an option on practically all the desirable timber of the valley, and had held it at such a high figure that the railroad had been forced to abandon the scheme. "What Greenstream thus loses through blind gluttony cannot be enumerated by a justly incensed pen.
It is dark in the wagonette, and not so merry as it might have been. The coachman loses the road. So-and-so tries to light fireworks with the most indifferent success. Some sing, but the rest are too weary to applaud; and it seems as if the festival were fairly at an end "Nous avons fait la noce, Rentrons
Now this clotting of the milk does, for the most part, proceed from the breasts not being fully drawn, and that, either because she has too much milk, and that the infant is too small and weak to suck it all, or because she doth not desire to be a nurse, for the milk in those cases remaining in the breasts after concoction, without being drawn, loses its sweetness and the balsamic qualities it had, and by reason of the heat it requires, and the too long stay it makes there, is sours, curds and clots, in like manner as we see rennet put into ordinary milk to turn it into curds.
The train rolled into the depot. We all bid the lady and gentleman and "Tommy" good-bye and got off. "Selah." A kicker, or squealer, always speaks of the money he has lost, against any game, as his money; while the gambler considers the money he loses, against any game, as lost; and it belongs to the person who won it, and you never hear one of them do any kicking.
He professes "no cure no pay," as well he may, for if nature does the work, he is paid for it; if not, he neither wins nor loses; and like a cunning rook lays his bets so artfully, that, let the chance be what it will, he either wins or saves.
He and I were very good friends when we were young. But I don't suppose he remembered me." "I do not think I ever heard him speak of you." "No, very likely not. But I have a good memory, especially for my friends. One loses sight of people very easily, far too easily; and then it is difficult to find them again when one returns to England after a long absence.
A fern a spray of maiden's-hair loses much of its beauty but none of its refinement when petrified in limestone or made fossil in coal. As they sat there, side by side, mother and daughter, where they had sat every day for a week or more, they had very little to say. They had exhausted the recapitulation of Clare's illness, during the first days of her convalescence.
On the way down the mountain, Billie decided to unburden herself of something that had been on her mind for a long time. "You have never seen Phoebe's father, have you, Dr. Hume?" The doctor shook his head. "Have you ever heard of a case like his? I mean forgetting one's past." "Oh, yes. I have seen a number of cases. The patient usually loses his memory altogether in time and goes insane."
"Well, the moon will not run away!" "But it is so with everything. It is too hard to think of all that one puts off and loses, not duties to God and to man only, but pure pleasures those small innocent pleasures which are within one's grasp every day!"
Hence it comes to pass, that the rapid Aufidus carries away, together with the bank, such men as an abundance more copious than what is just delights. But he who desires only so much as is sufficient, neither drinks water fouled with the mud, nor loses his life in the waves.
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