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Ce qui est bien la preuve que je ne la connaissais pas! I thought I did, which was my error. I have a fatal habit of trusting to my observation less than to my divining wit; and La Rochefoucauld is right: 'on est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne Pest jamais avec du jugement. Well! better be deceived in a character than doubt it. "This will soon be over.
"Horses are the most miserable creatures, invariably doing precisely what they ought not to do; a pest, a nuisance, a bore." Or, as some one else puts it: "A horse at its best is an amiable idiot; at its worst, a dangerous maniac." "All were loved and all were regretted, but life is made up of forgetting." "The best thing which a man possesses is his dog."
Of the older boys and girls Mary wrote: "They are such a pest to every one that it is almost impossible to love them." Yet with a divine pity she gathered them to her and mothered them. Her earlier observations of the character of the African women were confirmed by her sojourn in the harem.
I know another secretary, Doctor Dan Poling, a clergyman, and Pest, a physical director, who carried a wounded German, who had two legs broken, through a barrage of German shells across a field to safety. But all the Silhouettes of Service are not in the front lines. There are two divisions to the army. They used to be "The Zone of Advance" and "The Zone of the Rear."
Thomas Tusser, who lived 1515 to 1580, in his Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, included many seasonable verses on Hop-growing, among which the following are worth quoting: is a couplet repeated in all the hop districts to-day, but the damage done by the flea is not to be compared to that caused by the next pest, the fly.
These pests breed in stagnant water and it was discovered that kerosene on the water forms a film on the surface that means death to the newborn mosquito. Then began one of the greatest battles of all history, the fight to eradicate the mosquito pest. Colonel Gorgas had charge of the forces and he was determined to do the job well.
This royal pest, this insolent prince, will trouble you no more; you will never see him again. "'Ha! exclaimed Lal Lu. 'You seem strangely positive. What do you mean? "'Did you see that scratch which the point of your dagger made upon the wrist of the prince? "'No, replied Lal Lu, shrinking from the picture presented to her mind.
"A sentence! a sentence! a righteous and just sentence! a glorious decree! a most worthy and upright, and holy condemnation!" shouted the Pest family altogether.
Nevertheless, it must be admitted that there were causes, which were undisputed, for his death, sufficient to render a search for the more mysterious ones comparatively superfluous. A disorder called the pest was raging in his camp, and had carried off a thousand of his soldiers within a few days, while his mental sufferings had been acute enough to turn his heart to ashes.
He is that kind of a pest, and you know it. What you should do under these circumstances, after he has invited you to come up to his house, would be to look him straight in the eye and say to him: "Well, old chap, that's awfully kind of you to include me in your little musical party, and just to show you how much I appreciate it and how I feel about it here's something for you."
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