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The Hall was a long, stone-built Georgian house, perhaps a hundred and fifty years old, with two shallow wings and a stone-tiled roof, and was obviously of considerable size. Some withered creepers straggled over it, and it was neatly kept, but with no sort of smartness.
The man had a bow about six feet long, and iron-headed arrows about thirty inches in length; he had also wooden arrows neatly barbed, to shoot in cases where he might not be quite certain of recovering them again. We soon afterward got a zebra, and gave our hunting acquaintances such a liberal share that we soon became friends.
Her netting too is a great source of amusement and is so neatly done that all the family are proud of trimming their dresses with it." This domestic life was dear to the heart of our Farmer's wife, yet the home-coming did not fail to awaken some melancholy memories. To Mrs. In Alexandria, I do not believe there lives at this day a single family with whom you had the smallest acquaintance.
They seemed rather to have been hidden away by the accident, whatever it was, which had caused death crushed, perhaps, under what had been the low wall of a garden being much distorted, and lying, though neatly enough discovered by the upheaval of the soil, in great confusion.
"Why?" she asked, flirting it over her shoulder to see what was wrong with it. It was tied very neatly with a big bow of tartan ribbon. "You'll have to do it up, somehow stow it under your hat, don't you know hairpins, old girl, smokers' best friends. You can't be married with your hair down, or they'll think it isn't respectable." "Oh," she said meekly. "By the way, I got the religion wrong.
At that moment the Angelus bell was heard; everyone knelt down, and I followed their example. After the prayer, a small table was neatly laid out, I was asked what sort of wine I wished to drink, and I was provided with newspapers and two silver candlesticks.
When he had done so, he took up the letter, broke the seal, and throwing himself back in his chair, read it leisurely through. 'Very neatly worded upon my life! Quite a woman's letter, full of what people call tenderness, and disinterestedness, and heart, and all that sort of thing!
Many persons of the first rank use the bast in some shape or other; it exhilarates the spirits, and raises the imagination as violently as opium. In all these shops the Persian pipe is smoked, of which there The Kedra, which is the largest, and rests upon a tripod; it is always neatly worked, and found only in private houses. 2. The Bury.
It neatly spanned the scorched and still-smoking patch of soil. A port opened. Men came out, following a jaunty small figure with belligerent gray whiskers. They dragged an enigmatic object behind them. Hoddan came out of the yacht. His grandfather said waspishly: "This the castle?" He waved at the massive pile of cut gray stone, with walls twenty feet thick and sixty high.
In the last chapter my hero asked the lady of his heart, "Are there no troubles now?" and the lady of his heart responded, "Not one, dear Frank, not one." And then I wrote, very neatly, and in brackets, the words, "White Line," a professional instruction to leave the space of one line blank between the foregoing and the following paragraphs.
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