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"It was a fluke," Billy insisted. And at that point Saxon settled the dispute of modesty and raised a general laugh by rippling chords on the ukulele and parodying an old hymn in negro minstrel fashion: "De Lawd move in er mischievous way His blunders to perform."
"Monsieur," said Aramis, parodying Jussac, "it would afford us great pleasure to obey your polite invitation if it depended upon ourselves; but unfortunately the thing is impossible Monsieur de Treville has forbidden it. Pass on your way, then; it is the best thing to do." This raillery exasperated Jussac. "We will charge upon you, then," said he, "if you disobey."
The energy of adolescence, unleashed, rejoicing in pure muscular activity, disports itself in the "Shadow Dances," and in the "Wild Man's Dance," with its sheer, naked, beating rhythm. The bitterness of adolescence mocks in the "Three Burlesques," in the "Dance of the Gnomes," with its parodying of clumsy movements.
Parodying the Scriptural story of Nebuchadnezzar's golden image, the squib began: "I. The Earl of St. "He set it up every ten o'clock A.M. on the quarter-deck of the Ville de Paris, before Cadiz."
'Amy, my dear Amy, retorted Fanny, parodying her words, 'I know that I wish to have a more defined and distinct position, in which I can assert myself with greater effect against that insolent woman. 'Would you therefore forgive my asking, Fanny therefore marry her son? 'Why, perhaps, said Fanny, with a triumphant smile.
"She's very good," he said, "and very pretty. Quite a Madonna face, to my thinking." "You may see a dozen such Madonna faces among the nurses in the Luxembourg Gardens, every afternoon of your life," said I. "Oh, if you come to that, every woman is like every other woman, up to a certain point." "Les femmes se suivent et se ressemblent toujours," said I, parodying a well-known apothegm.
"Lieutenant Cumby," said the admiral, when quiet was restored, "you have been found guilty of parodying Holy Writ to bring your commander-in-chief into disrespect; and the sentence is that you proceed to England at once on three months' leave of absence, and upon your return report to me to take dinner here again." Compelled by general break-down of health to seek rest at home, St.
Fournier stopped for a moment, then said: "You hear these voices parodying the divine language? If I mistake not, these instruments of an infernal power are, by this song, preparing some new spell." "But," cried those who surrounded him, "what shall we do? What have they done with him?" "Remain here; be immovable, be silent," replied the young advocate.
So when this barber, who was the only tender-hearted one of his tribe, had kneeled, been absolved, and then blessed, Jack gave up his beard into his hands, and the barber, clipping it off with a sigh, held it high aloft, and, parodying the style of the boatswain's mates, cried aloud, "D'ye hear, fore and aft?
It has no title, but is complete in all its other parts.... He was fond of parodying the Odes of Horace, with applications to modern incidents and people, and did it very successfully. The Otium Divos was long remembered. Notwithstanding this perseverance, and a decided poetical ambition, he was never without misgivings as to his success.
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