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Yet another grievance, a little time since, was that, apparently with his approval, his ships of war handled sundry Venezuelans with decided roughness. This was true enough and ought to warm every honest man's heart.

I drove with Orrin S last evening to an old farmer's house to get some chickens. Entering the kitchen, I observed a fireplace with rough stone jambs and back, and a marble hearth, cracked, and otherwise contrasting a roughness of workmanship with the value of the material.

In the junctions of the story itself there are signs of roughness and want of skill, which make one suspect that the prose was only put together to connect a series of songs a series of songs so moving and attractive that people wished to heighten and dignify their effect by a regular framework or setting.

The coarseness and roughness of the man, chopped out, as it seemed by an axe, with his rough bark still left on him, and the stupid ignorance of his features, made him seem, for the moment, like some half-savage demigod.

This mixture of abruptness, of roughness even, with real kindness, perhaps accounts for the ascendency Lisbeth had acquired over the man whom she regarded as her personal property. Is not our attachment to life based on its alternations of good and evil?

'Well, I don't see why it should not succeed, said the doctor, 'or how you can any of you damage yourselves. 'And baby? said Amy. 'What should happen to her, do you think? said the doctor with his kind, reassuring roughness.

Put all on right way, by Gar, or I show you. Here you ze brandy furst." The steward slunk into the passage leading to the pantry, and the Creole, turning, saw me. "Ah, M'sieur; I saw you not. Pardon ze roughness, but consider, no dinare, an' I been on deck seek hour; no sleep, no eat, only work. I lose ze tempair, M'sieur." "That is not to be wondered at," I answered, affecting good humor.

Up till now they had appeared like masses of dark blue banked up cloud resting on the earth, now he could see that they were indeed stone blue stone piled up in huge cliffs and crags high above the green world; he could see the roughness of the heaped up rocks, the fissures and crevices in the sides of the hills, and here and there the patches of green colour where trees and bushes had taken root.

There was no roughness, but at the same time it was easy to see that the crowd did not yet know to what extent the army could be trusted.

"Because it's oh, pretty rough no place for girls to walk and ride." "Ah! I see. And your business has to do with rough places," said Miss Sampson. "Strange that papa would not see you. Stranger that he should want me to hear your business. Either he's joking or wants to impress me. "Papa tried to persuade me not to come. He tried to frighten me with tales of this this roughness out here.