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That his services as admiral had never been called into requirement hurt his pride and patriotism. At every call he would inquire, gravely and expectantly, for despatches. The operator would pretend to make a search, and then reply: "Not yet, it seems, Senor el Almirante poco tiempo!"
"True tolerance should tolerate even intolerance," observed Orsino smartly. "That sounds like one of the puzzles of pronunciation like 'in un piatto poco cupo poco pepe pisto cape," laughed Maria Consuelo. "Tolerably tolerable tolerance tolerates tolerable tolerance intolerably " "You speak Italian?" asked Orsino, surprised by her glib enunciation of the difficult sentence she had quoted.
Had he been born in Poco Poco and reared on a ranch, it is at least likely that he would not have been a professor in an Eastern university. Now that the steel girdles of environment were stricken off it appeared that the youthful heart of him stimulated new growth. As for heredity, environment's collaborator, both he and Barbee were lineal descendants of father Adam and mother Eve.
In the valuable manuscript chronicle of the reign of the Catholic sovereigns, written by Andres Bernaldes, the curate of Los Palacios, there is a long tract on the subject of the discoveries of Columbus: it concludes with these words: Murio en Valladolid, el ano de 1506, en el mes de Mayo, in senectute bona, de edad 70 anos, poco mas o menos.
Further, he hesitated and hesitation played but a small part in El Joven's make-up. Finally he evaded. 'Where've you been all this long time, Courtot? he asked sullenly. 'The biggest game of six years was pulled off down in Poco Poco last week and you wasn't there. I heard a man say you must be dead. Courtot considered him gravely. Longstreet regarded the man, fascinated.
"It seems to me like the air is perfumed with poison somehow; and the poison is very easy to take." "It's the lotus effect," said Higgins presently. "I know it. I got a taste of it down in Yucatan once. It makes you want to sit down against the roots of a tree and have a woman bring you drinks. It's bad medicine when you've got work to do. I feel it now. The old lotus effect. Poco tiempo!
"Arrah now," he hailed, "which of you's the man that came ashore at Porto and passed through Evvisa overnight? Spake up quick now, and surrender, for I have ye covered!" He lifted his rifle. I cast my eye over the space of macchia between us, and decided that I had only his bullet to fear. "A poco, a poco," I called back.
Naturally, the complete failure of all their projects did not improve their temper, and they lost no opportunity to assail the Marxists. The Jura Bulletin of December 10, 1876, translated an article entitled Poco
"Its very thought is almost death to me; Yet, having found some good there, I will tell Of other things which there I chanced to see." "Tanto e amara, che poco e piu morte: Ma per trattar del teen ch' i' vi trovai, Diro dell' altre Bose, ch' io v' ho scorte." Inferno, I. 7-10. Again in Canto X. we find:
The beginning of the sixth page is very piano and light it is nothing more than a breath of smoke, an airy nothing. But at the poco piu lento, there is an undercurrent of reality; the two parts are going at the same time the hard, earthly part, with accents, and the spiritual, thin as air. To realize these qualities in playing is the very idealization of technic."
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