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"Not so agreeable an occasion as when we last acted together in the field, Major Macdonnel; I'd sooner be clearing the course for my friend's horse, than measuring the ground for his fire." "True, indeed, Major Longsword; true, indeed. Don't you think you're putting your friend a leetle too much under the shade?
As mayor, I am at home in the mairie, and there I shall stay. Furthermore, just try to put me out." And he closed the window. The Commander returned to his troops. But, before explaining anything, measuring Lieutenant Picard from head to foot, he said: "You are a numskull, you are, a goose, the disgrace of the army. I shall degrade you." The Lieutenant replied: "I'll attend to that myself."
To the delirious or the perishing man, time has no measuring. I do not know how we spent the night, or how long it was. Some time it became morning, if morning might be called this gray and cheerless lifting of the gloom, revealing to us the sodden landscape, overcast with still drizzling skies which blotted out each ray of sunlight.
The young man before him did not look a slight antagonist. They glared at each other, measuring their strength; they did not know, indeed, that they had been brought in here to this warmth and light, like the stag-beetles, to make a little amusement for Phoebe; but they were quite ready to fight all the same. "Mr. Northcote, sir, I'm glad to see you.
The little dressmaker sat down again, and gave it into his hand, saying, with that better look upon her, and with a smile: 'Thank you! 'And as concerning the nests and the drawers, said Sloppy, after measuring the handle on his sleeve, and softly standing the stick aside against the wall, 'why, it would be a real pleasure to me.
How much does England not lose there is no way of measuring, but the amount must be very great by the fact that communication of thought is practically impossible between people who are neighbours?
'Do you remember we never explored it? But the spring must be there? Egeria's spring? Manisty lazily said he didn't know. 'Don't imagine you will be let off, said Eleanor, laughing. 'We have settled every other point at Nemi. This is left for to-day. It will make a scramble after tea. 'You will find it further than you think, said Manisty, measuring the distance.
And very soon she would smile again. But for Monck he had only the bitter hate of the conquered. He cast a malevolent look upon him with eyes that were oddly narrowed a measuring, speculative look that comprehended his strength and registered the infallibility thereof with loathing. "I wonder what happened to the serpent," he said, "when the man and woman were thrust out of the garden."
The King yet greatly taken up with Madam Castlemaine and Mrs. Stewart, which God of Heaven put an end to! Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy, reading lately what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides.
It is a widely diffused species, occurring probably throughout the Northern States. We have taken the moth in Northern Maine. We have received from Mr. W. V. Andrews the supposed larvæ of this moth. They are "loopers," that is, they walk with a looping gait, as if measuring off the ground they walk over, whence the name "Geometers," more usually applied to them.
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