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I drive a car, you know, and I've rather taken a fancy to having a country place, something on the old-style order. I've picked up rather a decent collection of old mahogany and prints, Sheffield plate and Lowestoft china that sort of thing that needs a certain background to show it off.
It didn't seem to have as much tune to it as the old-style fiddling, and he would hardly ever play for dances; but his fiddle just seemed to sing. He became a part of the history of Vandemark Township; and was the first fruits of the Scandinavian movement to our county so far as I know.
He'll be mindprobed to learn his accomplices and how he managed to smuggle even an old-style gun into the Palace. What he did's on record, on Security monitor tapes and probably the newscasters' gear as well. He'll be shot." The Major paused, then smiled. "I never thought I'd say this to a Traiti, Lieutenant Hovan, but well done. I could wish you were in my command." "I thank you, Major.
You're in the West, the good old-style West, where it's a man's present record that counts; not what he has been or what he has done. No, you're not going to run. You're going to face it out and going to stay to learn your new profession of puncher and man!" "But they will not wish to associate with me." "Yes, they will," she predicted. "I shall see to that."
She caught him looking at them. "Naughty, naughty!" said she, glancing down at them with a grimace. She dropped her skirt, and stood up beside him with a pretty shake of the shoulders. "Now let's see it," she begged. She examined the weapon with much interest, throwing down and back the lever in a manner that showed she was accustomed at least to the old-style arm.
The same may be said of the decision to provide for plebiscites in East Prussia and in upper Silesia. On the other hand, the refusal to permit the incorporation of the new, lesser Austria within Germany was at once unjust and unwise a concession to the most shortsighted of old-style diplomatic principles.
"We can still make them bad enough," said Beaton, ignoring Fulkerson in his remark to March. Fulkerson took the reply upon himself. "Well, you needn't make 'em so bad as the old-style cuts; but you can make them unobtrusive, modestly retiring.
The cast clothes of the old-fashioned British offishness seemed to have fallen to the American travellers who were trying to be correct and exemplary; and he would almost rather have had back the old-style bragging Americans whom he no longer saw.
One Ronaldson especially departed from the simplicity and dignity of the cut approved by Caxton, Aldus, and Elzevir, and substituted for the beautiful terminal of, say the capital T, two ridiculous curled points. I resented it passionately, and frequently remarked that a printer who would use Ronaldson old-style would not hesitate to eat his pie with a knife.
An old man sat in an arm-chair under one of the trees. He wore gold earrings and an old-style coat with brass buttons. "Uncle Charette," explained the Duke, as they passed him. "Simply a lawn ornament." He led the way into the house without knocking. "And this is Aunt Charette," he volunteered. In the centre of the spotless fore-room a ponderous woman rocked in her huge chair and knitted placidly.
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