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"That is a stock phrase, mother," he continued. "But it means something. Everything is not what it should be. If the demand were as great as people say it is, there would not be half a dozen houses better houses than ours unsold in our street. That is why I am afraid of a big contract. I might lose all my money and some of yours." "It would not be of much consequence if you did," answered Corona.
The larger colonies of Great Britain are not indeed reaching their majority, for that they did long ago; but the idea formulated in the phrase "imperial federation" shows that they, and the mother country herself, have passed through and left behind the epoch when the accepted thought in both was that they should in the end separate, as sons leave the father's roof, to set up, each for himself.
So saying, and changing the haughty stride with which he had that morning entered the precincts of the Palace, into a skulking shamble, he retreated for his wherry, which was in attendance, with speed which, to use the approved phrase on such occasions, greatly resembled a flight. Benedict. This looks not like a nuptial. Much Ado About Nothing.
'Worship is due to Heaven only, John Davies, said Geddes, 'I have often desired thee to desist from using that phrase to me. 'I won't, then, said John; 'no offence meant: But how the devil can a man stand picking his words, when he is just going to come to blows? 'I hope not, John Davies, said Joshua Geddes. 'Call in the rest of the men, that I may give them their instructions.
I have approached you with a determined purpose one long resolved upon and that, perhaps, gives me this firmness in declaring my love. I have said, Aurore, that I love you. I repeat it again with my heart and soul, I love you!" "Love me! poor girl!" There was something so ambiguous in the utterance of the last phrase, that I paused a moment in my reply.
I have given this passage chiefly because it affords an example of the manner in which the generality of Americans are accustomed to speak of English pronunciation and phraseology. It must be remembered, however, here and every where, that this phrase, "the Americans," does not include the instructed and travelled portion of the community.
His eyes were blue and heavily lashed; his hands were long and brown, with small freckles between the knuckles. He stood with incomparable ease, his hands and arms always ready, but in perfect repose. His lips, for he was clean-shaven, were keen and firm. His glance was fearless. As the phrase is, he looked every inch a sailor, born to challenge the winds and the waters.
These things did not come properly within March's province that had been clearly understood and for a while Fulkerson tried to run the art leg himself. The phrase was again his, but it was simpler to make the phrase than to run the leg.
When I was crossing the Po, we were all fighting about the propriety of one fellow's telling another that his argument was absurd; one maintaining it to be a perfectly admissible logical term, as proved by the phrase "reductio ad absurdum;" the rest badgering him as a conversational bully.
"Our wireless was out of commission for days." "True! Then you must learn from me?" He drew a breath and stiffened in his chair, then with a gesture of apology and a smile he added: "Why should I hunt for pompous words? I can tell you in one phrase: the world is at war, gentlemen!" They merely gaped upon him.
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