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Everybody nowadays is so used to seeing in the streets nurses wearing long floating cloaks of different colours, blue, brown, grey, and the rest, and to having them with us when we are ill, that it is difficult to imagine a time when there were no such people.
"That's only a few of them. Let them come. We'll give it them pretty strong." 'He was rather taken aback when he found that he was talking to a clergyman. "Well, wherever you go nowadays there's missionaries. Who would have thought you'd got so far down?" 'And he looked with regret at Mr.
She was tall and slim, her sister's junior by perhaps five years, but not more; very fair, with bright auburn hair that golden-tinted hair, of which there seems to be so much more nowadays than was to be seen twenty years ago.
"Evidently he is not acquainted with the peculiar smell of a joss stick." Theydon turned troubled eyes on the wizened little man who seemed to have the power of reading his secret thought. "A joss stick," he repeated. "Isn't that some sort of incense used by Chinese in their temples?" "Yes," said Furneaux. "Lots of ladies burn them in their boudoirs nowadays," explained Winter offhandedly.
No other period in English history, except, perhaps, the times of Shakespeare, has produced so many notable writers. The population of England in this reign is supposed to have been about five millions. London itself contained half a million, but even the best of the provincial towns were small, as we reckon populations nowadays.
Each of the three languages, French, German and Italian, has its peculiar characteristics, which are of aid to the student in the general study of pronunciation, and it is well to have a knowledge of them all outside of the fact that an artist nowadays needs to have this knowledge in order not only to rank with the greatest, but to cope with the demands of an operatic career.
'Mind you don't go and fall in love with him, remarked Sergei Sergeitch. 'I know you girls are all like that nowadays so what shall I say? romantic... 'No, Masha responded simply. Nenila Makarievna looked coldly at her husband.
Perhaps John Pendleton, of them all, however, was the most dissatisfied. One Saturday afternoon he spoke to her about it. "See here, Pollyanna, how would you like to come and live with me?" he asked, a little impatiently. "I don't see anything of you, nowadays." Pollyanna laughed Mr. Pendleton was such a funny man! "I thought you didn't like to have folks 'round," she said. He made a wry face.
And as to the place of my birth, forasmuch as nowadays that is looked upon as a main point of nobility, it was neither, like Apollo's, in the floating Delos, nor Venus-like on the rolling sea, nor in any of blind Homer's as blind caves: but in the Fortunate Islands, where all things grew without plowing or sowing; where neither labor, nor old age, nor disease was ever heard of; and in whose fields neither daffodil, mallows, onions, beans, and such contemptible things would ever grow, but, on the contrary, rue, angelica, bugloss, marjoram, trefoils, roses, violets, lilies, and all the gardens of Adonis invite both your sight and your smelling.
Driving was commonly resorted to in the extensive forests, but nowadays when forests are sub-divided into limited shootings the deer are seldom moved from their home preserves, whilst with the use of improved telescopes and the small-bore rifle, stalking has gone out of fashion.
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