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I happen now and then, when I visit this Berkshire parish, upon a stump of a post or an old spike in the grass of this wood, but otherwise it is as though all this had not been. A solemn thought: How enduring are the works of Nature how perishable those of Man!
Neither will I pretend that I am so unused to the more perishable smoking contrivance that a few whiffs would make me feel as if I lay in a ground-swell on the Bay of Biscay.
Stone carry Turnbull out of the prisoners' cage and into the anteroom." "And did you recognize your cashier?" demanded Parker. At the question Barbara set down her goblet of water without care for its perishable quality and looked with quick intentness at the banker. "I recognized Mr.
Neither will I pretend that I am so unused to the more perishable smoking contrivance, that a few whiffs would make me feel as if I lay in a groundswell on the Bay of Biscay.
Art was surely doomed, and his own life, the life of the last great Kano, futile and perishable as the withering flowers on their stems. He ate of his fish and rice in gloomy silence. Umè's gentle words failed to bring a reply. When the breakfast dishes were removed the old man continued listlessly in his place, staring out with unseeing eyes into his garden.
Think of the countless thousands of hands that had pressed that spot in the ages that are gone, to so reduce a stone that is as hard as iron! They had a great public bulletin board in Pompeii a place where announcements for gladiatorial combats, elections, and such things, were posted not on perishable paper, but carved in enduring stone.
The first and most visible effect of Communism was the utter disappearance of all perishable luxuries, of all food, clothing, furniture, better than that enjoyed by the poorest. Whatever could not be produced in quantities sufficient to give each an appreciable share was not produced at all. Next, the quarrels arising out of the apportionment of labour were bitter, constant, and savage.
"A man, manifestly another engineer, came up. The Mail driver lifted his torch and said, 'Hello, Yank, to which the new-comer made no direct response. He seemed to have something on his mind. 'What are you out on? asked the engineer, glancing at the other's overalls. 'Fast freight perishable must make time no excuse will be taken, he snapped, quoting and misquoting from my severe circular.
It resembles the tower in your own vision, its beautiful summit elevated above all other buildings, the foundations placed upon the sand, and mouldering. Montesinos. "Rising so high, and built so insecure, Ill may such perishable work endure!" You will not, I hope, come to that conclusion! You will not, I hope, say with the evil prophet
Good mourners, go your several ways! He needs no further rite, nor mass, Nor eulogy, who best could praise Himself in marble and in brass; Yet his best monument did raise, Not in those perishable things That men eternal deem, The pride of palaces and kings, But in such works as must avail him there, With Him who, from the extreme Love that was in his breast, Said, "Come, all ye that heavy burdens bear, And I will give you rest!"
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