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The dog sees nothing that does not belong to its little world. The man in search of mushrooms "tramples down oak-trees in his walks." To select the sensations that concern us is the basis of the power of attention. The suppression of undesired actions is a function of the will. To find data for choice among the possible motor responses is a function of the intellect.
The great naturalist is therefore altogether on the side of the Encyclopaedia. 'Some eat mushrooms raw, fresh as taken from the ground, with a little salt; but to me the taste is then too strong. Perhaps that is how Mr. Chesterton has taken his mushrooms and Little Bethel! Of the many ways of cooking mushrooms, Richard Jefferies goes on, 'the simplest is the best; that is, on a gridiron. Mr.
You've got us analyzed," Seaton stated, rather than asked, as with knife and fork he attacked the thick, rare, and beautifully broiled steak which, with its mushrooms and other delicate trimmings, lay upon his rigid although unsupported tray noticing as he did so that the Norlaminians ate with tools entirely different from those they had supplied to their Earthly guests.
"How stupid!" she said. "Who'd want to raise mushrooms, I'd like to know? Who wants their old collar-buttons? And for mercy's sake, how many people who read those advertising columns can write poetry?" She was about to toss the magazine upon the couch, when two words in large print caught her attention. "Banish freckles " "What's that?" she whispered.
The servant was now handing round the undercut. They ate, and emptied the decanters; but their bitterness was so great that the best things were offered without being tasted, which distressed the master and mistress of the house. 'Mushrooms, eh? the sculptor ended by repeating. 'No, thanks. And he added: 'The funny part of it all is, that Naudet is suing Fagerolles.
We learned the home and habits of the shrimp-pink mushroom, which is generally eaten salted; of the fat white and birch mushrooms, with their chocolate caps, to be eaten fresh; of the brown and green butter mushroom, most delicious of all to our taste, and beloved of the black beetle, whom we surprised at his feast.
"In a second I shan't be able to restrain myself from clutching some of that stuff back." "And it's genuinely bad?" said Kate, working hard: you might have imagined her engaged in gathering mushrooms at so much a minute. "The scum of literary abomination," groaned Hugh. "And you're certain you're not deceiving yourself."
It was not so much that he was ignorant of the difference between mushrooms and toadstools, and equally unskilful in discovering either, as that he often trod on the fairest members of the group he was picking. Pollyooly therefore gave him the basket to carry and picked the mushrooms herself. Twice he dropped it and scattered them over the turf. She chid him but gently and carried it herself.
Conceive a crowd of mushrooms, of all shapes, from ten to fifty feet across, close together side by side, their tops being kept at exactly the same level, their rounded rims squeezed tight against each other; then conceive water poured on them so as to fill the parting seams, and in the wet season, during which we visited it, to overflow the tops somewhat.
The K's sit every evening at the club, and no hints from me will prevail on them to move from the spot. It is hot, there are no mushrooms. Suvorin has not come yet.... Come soon for it is devilishly dull. We have just caught a frog and given it to the mongoose. It has eaten it. ALEXIN, July 20, 1891. Greetings, honoured Marya Vladimirovna.
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