United States or Azerbaijan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Pomfret's, the hired men of three of his neighbours, a few modest souls who habitually took off their hats to him, and Mr. Ball, of the village, who sold groceries to Wedderburn and was a general handy man for the summer people. Mr. Ball was an agitator by temperament and a promoter by preference.
Pomfret's which Beatrice Chillingham had nicknamed "The Ladies' Auxiliary.". In vain Mr.
"I suppose they do," assented the Rose of Sharon, "and their daughters sometimes squander it, just as their sons squander their money." "I'm not at all sure that Victoria is going to squander it," was Mrs. Pomfret's comforting remark. "She is too much of a personage, and she has great wealth behind her. I wish Alice were more like her, in some ways.
If you were a summer resident of importance and needed anything from a sewing-machine to a Holstein heifer, Mr. Ball, the grocer, would accommodate you. When Mrs. Pomfret's cook became inebriate and refractory, Mr. Ball was sent for, and enticed her to the station and on board of a train; when the Chillinghams' tank overflowed, Mr.
When the brakes failed, one after another, I was, if possible, more pained than surprised. I rebuked Pomfret and turned to my companion: "Do you mind making ready to die?" I said. "I'm sorry, but if we don't take the next corner, I'm afraid we shall be what is called 'found later'." We took it on two wheels, and I then ran Pomfret's near front wheel on to the low bank by the side of the road.
Pomfret's which Beatrice Chillingham had nicknamed "The Ladies' Auxiliary.". In vain Mr.
I confess my own apprehensions are not near so strong as they were; and if we get over this, I shall believe that we never can be hurt; for we never can be more exposed to danger. Whatever disaffection there is to the present family, it plainly does not proceed from love to the other. Neither the protection of my Lady Pomfret's prudery, nor of my Lady Townshend's libertinism, do her any service.
Johnson's time "no composition in our language had been oftener perused than Pomfret's Choice." If ever there was a man who should have been incapable of going wrong about poetry that man was Thomas Gray. How shall we explain his enthusiasm for Macpherson's fraud?
Pomfret's housekeeping, had a rare savour after months of dining in the little parlour behind his shop, varied only by Mrs. Wick's cooking on Sundays.
One unforeseen result of Mrs. Pomfret's arrangement was that the first eleven rows were vacant, with the exception of one old man and five or six schoolboys. Such is the courage of humanity in general!
Word Of The Day