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"That's not much," said Alice, who had exactly that amount of her own. "No ; perhaps that's too moderate. But the lower one went in the money speculation, the greater would be the number to choose from, and the better the chance of getting something decent in the woman herself.
There was a sharpness and subtlety in the wording of the sentence which puzzled him for a moment, until he was suddenly startled by the resemblance to the style of the story in the Argonaut which he had just read. He scarcely connected the two yet, but his heart sank lower in his breast.
The slight bank reached, there was uplifted a great serpent head, and then, without hesitation, the monster swept forward to the trees and soon hung dangling from the branches of the largest one, its great coils twined loosely about trunk and limb, its head swinging gently back and forth just below the lower branch.
Any other is abnormal, unnatural, untrue. I might say, "of the higher Christian life," following the common usage of these latter days. I still prefer to say true life. Higher means that there is a lower life. And that this lower is reckoned Christian, too. That is the bother, the cheapening of things; we call a thing Christian which is less than the thing it is called.
Below this flower-basket screening the lower window-panes there is a frame with a very fine wire netting, which prevents pedestrians from looking into the rooms. Behind the wire netting, in the divisions between the netting and the framework of the window, there are tables ornamented with china, glass, flowers, statuettes and other trifles.
It was so close I walked to the edge of the draw and looked over. There I saw you." "What was I doing?" "You were hogtying a calf." "And then?" "I didn't understand at first. I thought to slip down and surprise you for fun. But as I got lower I saw the dead cow. Just then you began to brand the calf and I cried out to you." "What did I do?" "You know what you did," she answered wearily.
“‘You have the guns loaded?’ he asked. “‘Ay, ay, sir, and the boarding-nettings up.’ “‘Can you make them out yet?’ “‘No, sir. By the sound, they are keeping close in to the shore. I have got the kedge anchor in a boat. Shall I lower it and row a couple of ship’s-lengths and drop it there, then we can warp her round, so as to bring all our guns to bear?
In every state the judges could be impeached by the lower branch of the legislature and expelled from office on conviction by the senate or other tribunal, as the constitution prescribed. Moreover, in six states they could be removed according to the English custom by the executive on an address from both branches of the legislature.
In the southwest the lower left-hand corner of the page there was stationed a squadron of British, cruisers, ready to close in when needed; in the northwest the upper left-hand corner of the page there were stationed a squadron of British light cruisers and another of battle cruisers, and it was toward these last two units that the decoys were leading the German fleets.
*The Large Intestine.*—The large intestine is a tube from five to six feet in length and averaging about one and one half inches in diameter. It has three divisions, known as the cæcum, the colon, and the rectum. The cæcum is the pouch-like dilatation of the large intestine which receives the lower end of the small intestine.
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