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And the young heroes laid into their work and made Noah's Ark forge along at an unwonted pace. Parson busily encouraged them, varying his exhortations by occasional taunts addressed to the other boat. "Now then," he shouted, "two to one on us. Come on, you there, jolly schoolhouse louts " "Parson, I'll fight you if you say it again," interposed Telson by way of parenthesis.
"Ach! don't ged in a demper," said the Walrus, complacently. "Dat is no goot also. Come, I show you der vay to der Equador dat is Germany, too," he added, in parenthesis. "Bud you must haf some glothes first to vare," he cried, looking at the children's scanty garments. "Id is so gold dere." "Cold at the Equator?" laughed Marjorie. "Why, I always thought that it was very hot."
Printed books he contemns, as a novelty of this latter age, but a manuscript he pores on everlastingly, especially if the cover be all moth-eaten, and the dust make a parenthesis between every syllable. His chamber is hung commonly with strange beasts' skins, and is a kind of charnel-house of bones extraordinary; and his discourse upon them, if you will hear him, shall last longer.
Brunetiere's estimate, given in a parenthesis, is not much more favourable. And Taine, when dipping into the book for examples of Balzac's style, neutralizes his praise of one portion by his depreciation of another.
Pallinson was suddenly melted, and declared that nothing, no outrage of her feelings "and heaven knows how they have been trodden on this day," the injured matron added in parenthesis should induce her to desert her dearest Adela. And so there was a hollow peace patched up, and Mrs.
The true succession, however, after this parenthesis, was taken up by Rokeby, which was dated on the very last day of 1812.
Among the rest, Jonathan Mayhew, a young but justly celebrated minister of Boston, pictured with enthusiasm the future greatness of the British-American colonies, with the continent thrown open before them, and foretold that, "with the continued blessing of Heaven, they will become, in another century or two, a mighty empire;" adding in cautious parenthesis, "I do not mean an independent one."
Oh, the dreariness of having to explain pleasantry! of appending to your banter Artemas Ward's parenthesis, "This is a goak"! of dealing with people who do not know the difference between a blow and a "love-pat," between Quaker guns and an Armstrong battery, between a granite paving-stone and the moonshine on a mud-puddle! Dear Public, don't begin to be tired yet. I am not.
And what Harris doesn't think he knows about the heel of the law being kept on Blacks and every other darned unit in the creation scheme' muttered Ninnis in parenthesis 'ain't entered in the Almighty's Log-book. Ninnis expectorated over the veranda railings a habit of his that jarred on Lady Bridget. 'Well, what about Harris?
Now then, reader, from 1813, where all this time we have been sitting down and loitering, rise up, if you please, and walk forward about three years more. Now draw up the curtain, and you shall see me in a new character. This year which we have now reached, stood, I confess, as a parenthesis between years of a gloomier character. Tea-spoons vary as much in size as opium in strength.
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