United States or Guernsey ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And if you'll take a brace and decide it's worth while you can have it. It's addressed in a woman's handwriting, not a Thomas Smith style of pinching letters out of a penholder and squeezing them off the pen point. Lie down there, man!" For Jim was sitting up, listening intently. With trembling fingers he took the letter and read it eagerly.
Jump so that your clutching hands just reach my shoulders; so that your weight will come on me gradually as you sink into the ooze. Take your time about crawling over me. Be sure to pass back to me one cylinder." Then he drilled me as to the signals he would give me by pinching my feet.
The ride in the pedler's van, the hours of currant-picking, and the hot, hilly, eight-mile trudge were forgotten, and she felt like pinching herself to see if she would wake up all of a sudden to find herself once more back in the attic at the Hess farm.
But at least one third, and finally one half, and sometimes more, went to swell the gain of the tavern-keeper. Had it not been that a cow and a few chickens were left to them at the last seizure of their things, pinching hunger would have entered the comfortless home where the mother hid herself with her children.
And, my Lord, we had so nearly saved the money pinching day by day, a little by a little, for his price was very high, and it was necessary the sum be got in secrecy, and that in the end they should be read by you " Her voice broke. "Go on," said Ormskirk. But her composure was shattered. "I would have given my life to save her," the girl babbled. "Ah, you know that I have tried to save her.
But long before Tom had a bill even for bull's-eyes and Gibraltar Rock, Madam Liberality was pinching and plotting, and saving bits of coloured paper and ends of ribbon, with a thriftiness which seemed to justify Tom's view of her character. The object of these savings was twofold: birthday presents and Christmas-boxes. They were the chief cares and triumphs of Madam Liberality's childhood.
The colds are pinching, and the snow drives in such abundance, that neither in the towns nor hamlets, people dare adventure to stir abroad, nor have any communication with each other, but by covered walks and galleries: It is yet far worse in the country, where nothing is to be seen but hideous forests, sharp-pointed and ragged mountains, raging torrents across the vallies, which sometimes overflow the plains.
It has poured balm and consolation into the heart of the sick, of captives in dungeons, of widows in their pinching griefs, of orphans in their loneliness. Dying soldiers have died easier as it was read to them; ghastly hospitals have been illuminated; it has visited the prisoner and broken his chains, and, like Peter's angel, led him forth in imagination, and sung him back to his home again.
'What a number of friends I should have, if everybody was of your way of thinking. Shouldn't I, Tom, dear? said his little sister pinching him upon the cheek. Tom laughed, and said that with reference to this particular case he had no doubt at all of finding a disciple in Merry.
In case he doesn't know what it is that he feels, I pray you tell him." Rochester looked at me with an ironical smile. "Am I to tell what love is?" he asked. "Ay, with your utmost eloquence," answered the King, laughing still and pinching his dog's ears. Rochester twisted his face in a grimace, and looked appealingly at the King. "There's no escape; to-day I am a tyrant," said the King.
Word Of The Day