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Go on a journey, get out and see strange birds, and pick the pretty flowers. You don't get exercise enough." "Exercise enough!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "Why, my goodness me sakes alive and a bunch of lilacs! Don't I play checkers almost every night with Grandfather Goosey Gander?" "That is not enough," said the doctor, "you must travel here and there, and see things."
His plantation was on the river and abutted on the eastern side with the property of Nimbus. After a moment's silence he said: "That reminds me of what I heard to-day. Your old Marse Potem is dead." "Yer don't say, now!" "Yes died yesterday and will be buried to-morrow." "La, sakes! An' how's he lef ole Missus an' de gals, I wonder?" "Mighty pore I'm afraid.
She survived her brother, dying in Venice on the morning of April 22, 1903. Robert Browning's father and mother were persons who for their own sakes deserve to be remembered. His father, while efficient in his work in the Bank, was a wide and exact reader of literature, classical as well as modern.
The churn went up and down with the branch, and the milk from the milk-weed sloshed and splashed around inside the churn, and land sakes flopsy-dub and some chewing gum, if in about two squeals there wasn't the nicest butter a guinea pig or a toad would ever want to eat! "Oh, what a smart little girl you are!" cried Mrs. Toad. "I'm sure your mother must be proud of you!
Then she added with a smile, "Not that I would like it only for your sakes, but for my own as well. It would be nice to have a sister companion to share my lessons and duties with me, and bear with my grumbles when I am ill."
Rank and ceremony were laid aside: all were deemed equal, whether lords or barons, serfs or peasants a custom which arose, doubtless, from the remembrance of Him who on the first Christmas Day, "although He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor."
Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?
"My sakes alive, if it an't Lizy! Get on your clothes, old man, quick! there's old Bruno, too, a pawin round; what on airth! I'm gwine to open the door." And suiting the action to the word, the door flew open, and the light of the tallow candle, which Tom had hastily lighted, fell on the haggard face and dark, wild eyes of the fugitive. "Lord bless you! I'm skeered to look at ye, Lizy!
The large stars are the sheep; The little ones are the lambs, I guess: The gentle moon is the shepherdess, Sleep, baby, sleep! "Sleep, baby, sleep! Our Saviour loves his sheep; He is the Lamb of God on high Who for our sakes came down to die. Sleep, baby, sleep!"
For as there is a curiosity about intellectual matters which is futile, and merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity a desire after the things, of the mind simply for their own sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are which is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable.
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