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The ceremony of pressing noses having been duly completed with all present, we seated ourselves in a circle in the front of one of the-hovels, and rested there half an hour. All the hovels have nearly the same form and dimensions, and all agree in being filthily dirty.
She attacked and belittled, and mimicked and berated them. They had talked of her BROGUE! They should listen to their own nasal utterances, that sounded as if they were speaking with their noses and not with their tongues! Even the teacher did not go unscathed. She came in for an onslaught, too. That closed Peg's career as a New York student.
Our wisest plan will be to keep under shelter as long as we can, and then to spring out on them as soon as they get their noses near enough." "Ay, ay, sir!" cried the men in cheerful tones; "we'll soon give them a taste of our cutlasses, and they'll not wish to have a second bite."
He has smoked the calumet with the Indians of North America he has hunted with the Araucas in the South galloped on wild horses over the plains of Mexico, and rubbed noses with the Esquimaux. He hath used the chopsticks with the Chinese, swung the Cherok pooga with the Hindoos, and put a new nose on the Great Cham of Tartary.
First I saw Jones waving his long arms; next the dogs, noses upward, and Don actually standing on his hind legs; then a dead pine with a well-known tawny shape outlined against the blue sky. "Hurrah for Shep!" I yelled, and right vigorously did my comrades join in. "It's another female," said Jones, when we calmed down, "and fair sized.
"I know that they can't, any of them, see three yards before their noses, and that you can turn and twist them which way you will if you only go upon this principle that they are full of vanity and self-conceit, and totally deficient in brains."
Instinct is opposed to reason, to reflection, to thought, to that kind of intelligence which knows and takes cognizance of itself. Instinct is that lower form of intelligence which acts through the senses, sense perception, sense association, sense memory, which we share with the animals, though their eyes and ears and noses are often quicker and keener than ours.
And the commandant drank with the sheriff to the health of the trumpeter, although one or two fastidious gentlemen turned up their noses in consequence. But the majority liked Valentine all the better for not forgetting his lowly comrade in the hour of his greatest elevation. Very late at night the merry company dispersed, and Greek fire flamed on all the bastions in honor of the happy day.
That was your amusement, wasn't it? to see me go out discreetly perfumed, in fine linen and purple, brave as the best of them in club and hall, in ballroom and supper room, and in every lesser hell from Crystal Palace cinders to Canal. "Poor Burgess! Even the seventy-five pretty waitresses at the Gaities would turn up their seventy-five retrousse noses at a man with pockets as empty as mine."
"At the farther end of the enclosure was a large portable lever to raise the stones which covered the vaults. Upon the promise of a few grains the stone of the vault for the day was raised, and, with the precaution of holding our kerchiefs to our noses, we looked down into the dark vault.
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