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Penang, or Prince of Wales Island, is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the three Straits settlements, though it is certainly not the most salubrious, being occasionally visited by a very severe fever, which, in my time, carried off many of the European inhabitants.
I hope with you that the present delightful weather may contribute to the perfect restoration of our dear papa's health; and that it may give aunt pleasant reminiscences of the salubrious climate of her native place," &c. To return to "Mary's" letter. "She used to speak of her two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who died at Cowan Bridge.
And he handed Groholsky a letter. "Read it! Read it aloud!" Groholsky read as follows: "My beloved and consoling, never-forgotten son Ioann! I have received the respectful and loving letter in which you invite your aged father to the mild and salubrious Crimea, to breathe the fragrant air, and behold strange lands.
He told them that he had been upon this coast formerly with Bastidas, when they sailed to the bottom of the gulf, where they found a fine large town, in a fruitful soil and salubrious climate, inhabited indeed by warlike Indians, but who did not use poisoned arrows. He exhorted them, therefore, to bestir themselves in getting off their stranded vessels, and to sail to that place.
He was the inventor of our 'moral reform' sidewalks, on which, as you see, no young man can walk beside a maiden. The effect on morals is salubrious." "Case! Case!" protested Ransom. "As for law, he goes into a law book as a mite goes through a cheese, head on, and with about " "Case! Case! Case!" broke in Ransom again, "hold up your infernal gabble."
Meekins, burn some more of the powder. The atmosphere down here may be salubrious, but I am unaccustomed to it." "Perhaps," Mr. Dunster said in a hollow tone, "you will have some opportunity now of discovering with me what it is like." "That, too, is just possible," Mr. Fentolin admitted, blowing out a little volume of smoke from a cigarette which he had just lit, "but one never knows.
A cool, reviving breeze blew from the sea—soft, pure, salubrious: it waved her drooping ringlets, and imparted a livelier colour to her usually too pallid lip and cheek. She felt its exhilarating influence, and so did I—I felt it tingling through my frame, but dared not give way to it while she remained so quiet.
Thus in La Brenne, a tract of 200,000 acres resting on an impermeable subsoil of argillaceous earth, which ten centuries ago was covered with forests interspersed with fertile and salubrious meadows and pastures, has been converted, by the destruction of the woods, into a vast expanse of pestilential pools and marshes.
"Yes, Madam, both on animals and men." "You are not joking, Monsieur Paganel?" "I am not, Madam. The horses and the cattle here are of incomparable docility. You see it?" "It is impossible!" "But it is a fact. And the convicts transported into this reviving, salubrious air, become regenerated in a few years. Philanthropists know this. In Australia all natures grow better."
You see," she explained, with a sly little air, "in the children's geographies the climate of a country is nearly always salubrious. So I took a chance on every country. That brought my average up." "Good for you," exclaimed Steve. "Nothing like beating them at their own game. Won't you have some more coffee?" "No, thank you," said Janet. "Two cups is really more than I ought to drink at night."
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