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Some pleasant evening, when your crew of hammock gladiators palls on you, let me come around and show you the difference." "What difference?" "I'll show you what a real porch-climber is like." "Indeed! I'll think it over." Ten minutes later Miss Santa Fe called up again. "Hello! I want Mitchell, the junior partner." "This is Mitchell." "Did you say those rivets were two-fifty?" "Should they be?"

In answer, I felt and I avowed that these works were not the fruits of Rome; they were but her abundant blossoming, but the fair promise she showed the world, That bloom, when set, savoured not of charity; the apple full formed was ignorance, abasement, and bigotry. Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude.

Pompey Hollidew, the richest man in Greenstream, wore as was customary with him a crumpled yellow shirt, open at his stringy throat, and innocent of tie; his trousers, one time lavender, had faded to a repulsive, colorless hue, and hung frayed about cheap, heavy shoes fastened by copper rivets.

But the enormous cost of moving them against the stream of the river is in itself a barrier to their use. When we saw them and then they were quite new many of the rivets were already gone. The small boats had been stolen from some of them, and the ropes and oars from others.

Dan Leno, in particular, rivets the attention of his audience by his entrancing by-play, even when he doesn't speak. And yet it is precisely that does it." At that moment Miss Terry's little grandchild, who was playing about the room, most dismally. "Here is a little maid who was a charmer from her cradle," said the delightful actress, picking up the child and it out of the third-floor window.

One says it is his prodigious wealth a wealth whose drippings in salaries and in other ways support multitudes and make them his interested and loyal vassals; another says it is his personal magnetism and his persuasive tongue, and that these hypnotize and make happy slaves of all that drift within the circle of their influence; another says it is his majestic ideas, his vast schemes for the territorial aggrandizement of England, his patriotic and unselfish ambition to spread her beneficent protection and her just rule over the pagan wastes of Africa and make luminous the African darkness with the glory of her name; and another says he wants the earth and wants it for his own, and that the belief that he will get it and let his friends in on the ground floor is the secret that rivets so many eyes upon him and keeps him in the zenith where the view is unobstructed.

These rails had been laid down as far as could be done without danger of attracting attention, and now it was merely a case of completing a juncture with the line, and arranging the points as they had been before. The sleepers had never been removed, and the rails, fish-plates and rivets were all ready, for we had taken them from a siding on the abandoned portion of the line.

I have a right to Sirona; for hide her where you will or even if the centurion were to find her, and to fetter her to himself with chains and rivets of brass still that which makes her the noblest work of the Most High the image of her beauty lives in no one, in no one as it lives in me.

Here is a description of a woman's jewelry, as taken from life by Vandy: lobes of ears pierced with holes large enough to allow one's thumb to be inserted; above these holes two small gold-color rivets in each ear; in each nostril two gold pendants, inserted by screwing in; through the centre of the nose a large silver ring; on each wrist four bracelets; higher up the arm more rings; around her neck a necklace; around each ankle a large silver ring; and around her big toe and the next, on both feet, were rings.

He measured its long stiletto-like blade, projecting nine inches from its fastenings in the hickory handle. He observed the skill and care with which the rivets had been set. "An ugly piece of iron," he said at last. "I'll bet they've thousands of them somewhere back in these hills," Stuart added. "And not a negro has lifted his hand against his master?" "Not one."