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Lister, with joyful appreciation of the effect he was producing. "Altogether I've got a little over four 'undered pounds." The cook gasped, and with gentle firmness took the cabbage from him as being unfit work for a man of such wealth. "It's very nice," he said, slowly. "It's very nice. You'll be able to live on it in your old age." Mr. Lister shook his head mournfully, and his eyes became humid.
"I was wondering how far you four men would go to save twenty or thirty thousand lives." "You've no call to wonder about that," said Will. "Suppose you tell us what you've got in mind," suggested Monty, putting his long legs on a chair and producing a cigarette. The consul knocked out his pipe and sat forward, beginning to talk a little faster, as a man who throws discretion to the winds.
Rezánof's visit and its consequences have been made the subject of much and romantic writing. Gertrude Atherton's novel, Rezánof, is devoted to this episode in his life. The burden of the story is possibly true, viz., that the Russians in their settlements to the north were suffering for want of the food that California was producing in abundance.
They usually reproduce themselves by budding in very much the same way as do the Anemones, but the Coral Polyp does not separate from the parent when it gets its growth; it stays fastened to the mother, and soon imitates her example by producing a bud which becomes a coral flower.
Even snarling onlookers became curious, and their faces began to wear the half-smiling, half-humiliated expression of people who are not within hearing of the joke which is producing infectious laughter.
Hurry's fine face and manly form had never compensated for his boisterous and vulgar tone, and her intercourse with the officers had prepared her to make comparisons under which even his great natural advantages suffered. But this very intercourse with the officers who occasionally came upon the lake to fish and hunt, had an effect in producing her present sentiments towards the young stranger.
What can there be contemptible in automatic machines capable of producing such desirable effects? Marcus Aurelius was a very useful spring to the vast machine of the Roman Empire. By what right will a machine despise another machine, whose springs would facilitate its own play?
The exercise will really get him into training so long as he is thinking about something else. And the marriage will really stand some chance of producing a generous-blooded generation if it had its origin in its own natural and generous excitement. It is the first law of health that our necessities should not be accepted as necessities; they should be accepted as luxuries.
He was a short, puffy little man, with a bullet head at half-cock in the air, producing a general effect of nostrils on you. "Sing, eh?" he mumbled, once or twice. Before this I had been Mrs.
The brave sepoys have undoubtedly been destroyed to a man; but that should make us still more eager to avenge their death. And what are you worth, if you cannot do so with your carbines and sharp tulwars? Come on, then, at once! We may take the foe by surprise while engaged in plundering the dead." The rajah's address seemed to be producing some effect.
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