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Flowers and leaves are not cast like bullets in rigid moulds, but differ from their parents much as children do. Usually the difference is slight, at times it is as marked as in our double rose. Whenever the change in a flower is for the worse, as in the sickly violets and roses we have observed, that particular change ends there with death.
But it must be admitted frankly that brief tales have always existed, and still continue to exist, which stand entirely outside the scope of this rigid and rather narrow definition.
By amazing industry and a most rigid economy of time, Pliny combined with his continuous official duties an immense reading and a literary production of great scope and value. A hundred and sixty volumes of his extracts from writers of all kinds, written, we are told, on both sides of the paper in an extremely small hand, were bequeathed by him to his nephew.
Then something came over him, for he sat up rigid, pointing out his hand at the empty space, and muttered, 'There stands mother now under the oleanders. Who is that with her? Yes, I had a sister. Open the windows. It is getting dark dark dark. "Large hands laid him down tenderly, but a fit of coughing came on.
The number of their subordinate officers, clerks, messengers, or assistants, was minutely expressed; three hundred and ninety-six for the præfect himself, fifty for each of his vicegerents; and the rigid definition of their fees and salaries was more effectual to confirm the right than to prevent the abuse.
He drove his spurs deep and the cattle pony started a bucking course for the shanty. "Dan!" he muttered at her ear. The yells of the men drowned his voice. She managed to jerk her right arm free and struck him in the face. He shook her furiously. "For Whistling Dan!" he said more loudly. "He's dying!" She went rigid in his arms. "Don't speak!" he panted. "Don't let them know!"
In consequence of some change of circumstances, perhaps owing to some improper conduct when in Flanders, the proprietors now took the chief command from Shelvocke, and conferred it upon Clipperton, a man of a blunt, rough, and free-speaking disposition, but of a strict regard to his duty and rigid honesty.
What she would have answered I cannot tell, for at that moment she gave a start as if some sound had fallen upon her ear. As she looked round apprehensively, I suddenly saw her features become rigid and her eyes fixed and dilated.
If rigid in your terms, in protection of the right of the profession to a just and honorable compensation, let it rather be in the amount of the required retainer, when it will have its proper influence in the discouragement of litigation."
'Ye-yes, I said, 'he was well taken care of. I mean he had not the unutterable happiness that I had in being so near you. Dora bent her head over her drawing and said, after a little while I had sat, in the interval, in a burning fever, and with my legs in a very rigid state 'You didn't seem to be sensible of that happiness yourself, at one time of the day.
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