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Secondly, to select all the good passages, and to comment upon them with such power and vivacity, that beside your pearls they seem paste. Thirdly, to select all the best passages, and to string them all together on a very slight thread like dew-drops on gossamer and boldly palm it upon the public as an original article. Blackwood's Mag.
When young the surface is broken up into numerous oblong tubercles, each bearing a small cushion of whitish, short hairs, and about half a dozen white spines, unequal in length, the longest stout, and inclosed in a hard sheath, which becomes broken and ragged when old. Flowers not known. A native of Mexico, and introduced in 1840. It requires stove treatment. Mag. 2393.
"The father is the leader of the gang, and he is Bold Ben. His three sons are One-eyed Peter, Crooked Tom, and Sly Sam. They call his wife Old Mag, and then there are two cousins, twins; they are Smiling Steve and Grinning Jim." "Oh, Polly, how do you think of such names?" said Molly delightedly. "What does Old Mag do?" "She pulls in things from the wreck and she cooks the meals.
Snivel saw a case there could be no mistaking. That case became stronger when his fashionable friend engaged his services to trace out what had become of the woman Mag Munday, and to further ascertain what the girl Anna Bonard knew of her own history.
When, at the end of three minutes more, he had said, with an effect of suddenness, "Well, Mag and the Principino?" it was quite as if that were, by contrast, the hard, the truer voice. She glanced at the clock. "I 'ordered' him for half-past five which hasn't yet struck. Trust him, my dear, not to fail you!" "Oh, I don't want HIM to fail me!" was Mr.
The next evening Andy came again with a long face. He had a paper in which he showed Maggie an account of the suspension of the Shamrock Savings Bank, in which the money of so many Irishmen was locked up, and in which were all of Andy Doyle's savings, except ten dollars he had in his pocket. "Now, Mag, what am I goin' to do? It takes thirty-five dollars for a ticket.
Ever since the day on which Lenora had startled Carrie by informing her of her danger, she had been carefully kept from the room, or allowed only to enter it when Margaret was present. One afternoon, however, early in February, Mag had occasion to go to the village.
"Good daah to you, Misther Gordon," she said. "Good daah to you, Miss." "Good day, Mrs. Doyle," said Hugh. "Hard work that, this weather. How's all the family?" "Mag Marg'rut, I mane she's inside. That's her playin' the pianny. She just got it up from Sydney." "And where's Peter?" "Peter's shearin' the sheep. He's in that shed there beyant.
My head was a-whirl with schemes coming forward with suggestions and being dismissed as unsuitable; my thoughts were flying about at such a dizzy rate while I stood there in the doorway, the woman's patient hand on the knob and her watchful eyes on me, that I actually Mag, I actually didn't hear the matron's voice the first time she spoke.
BEVERIDGE Reef, 20 deg S., 167 deg W., is described in the "Naut. Mag." SAVAGE Island, 19 deg S., 170 deg W., has been described by Cook and Forster. The Rev. J. Williams informs me that the reef fringing its shores, resembles that round Mangaia; coloured red. PYLSTAART Island.
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