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"If you are referring to 'idle hands," she replied, "I'll give you a bit of advice. Don't you keep that hand idle any longer than is really necessary. I have my suspicions about that splint oh, you know what I mean," and before I had time to reply, she had taken advantage of the entrance of a couple of patients to whisk out of the surgery with the abruptness that had distinguished her arrival.
"As referring to weather," said Stevey Todd, "though not putting it so strong, you might " But the newcomer broke in, and beat the table with his fist. "Weather! No! Not weather. Mr. Pemberton, I'll tell you what's the matter. Here's my daughter run away to be married with the coolest, freshest, limber-tongued young codfish that ever escaped salting. Not if I know it! I'll salt him!
She listened to me as she might to the tale of a child Referring to my unmarried state, she said, with unfeigned sympathy: "This is really no life. You ought to get married." And she added, gaily, "If you ever marry, you mustn't neglect to invite me to the wedding." "I certainly won't; you may be sure of that," I said "You must come to see me.
In referring to the continents of Europe and America, it will be understood that Turkey in the one, Utah in the other, are always excepted. In neither Europe nor America are women subject to the surveillance of the East; they are not bought and sold in the markets. They are, if they do not marry before coming of age, mistresses of their own personal actions.
He was on the point of referring to this matter, when a carriage drew up at the door of the cottage, and Mademoiselle de Laurebourg descended from it. Daumon at once saw how matters stood, and wasted no time in addressing Diana. "The sheriff will stop proceedings," said he. "I can show you his letter to that effect."
"Shakespeare must have traveled by rail, if only in a dream: 'perturbed Spirit' is such a happy phrase." "'Perturbed' referring, no doubt," she rejoined, "to the sensational booklets peculiar to the Rail. If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature!" "No doubt of it," I echoed. "The true origin of all our medical books and all our cookery-books "
A Frenchman, referring to himself, writes je with a small j; a German, though he may gratify all his substantives with capital letters, employs a small i in writing ich; a Spaniard, when he uses the personal pronoun at all, bestows a small y on his yo, while he honours the person he addresses with a capital V. I believe, indeed though I am not sufficiently acquainted with foreign languages to speak with certainty on the point that the Englishman is the only person in the world who applies a capital letter to himself.
But the distance traversed by the crusaders six or seven hundred years ago was insignificant compared with the distance traversed by the pilgrims to whom we are referring. In addition to this, the country to be crossed presented difficulties of a far more startling and threatening character.
But inscriptions have been found on the same site belonging to another series of rulers, to whom a different title is applied. Instead of referring to themselves as viceroys of Susa and governors of Elam, they bear the title of sukkal of Elam, of Siparki, and of Susa.
'I am strong, strongly, disinclined to avail myself of your generosity, though my helplessness yields. For I cannot but feel that I to put it in the mildest form of speech that I have done nothing to deserve it. 'Where CAN he be? muttered Fledgeby, referring to his watch again. 'What CAN he have gone out for? Did you ever see him, Mr Twemlow? 'Never.
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