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A family of thrushes had their nest a few yards from his stand, and they used to get perfectly furious with him. "There's that fool at it again," the female thrush would say; "why can't he do it in the daytime if he must do it at all?" After a while, the young thrushes would wake up and begin chirping, and then the mother would get madder than ever.
"You have!" said Mavis, as Miss Pollard rose to say good-night to her circle of listeners. "You're like Peter Pan, and never grow old!" "I had such a happy childhood! And it seemed so much the best part of life that I've always been reluctant to let the glamour go. Children ought to be brought up on fairy tales!
We can arrange every thing there better than here, for we must hear the other side audi alteram partem, as a body may say." "This will be a regular jour de noce, as you would say, Major," remarked Colonel Sword, giving his arm to Mrs Smith. "It's a nos non nobis, poor auld bachelors as a body may say," replied the Major, and the whole party proceeded to the hotel.
"Well, mademoiselle, these two consent; but what do you say? for after all, it is you I am courting, and not them. Have you the courage to venture on a rough soldier like me?" This delicate question was put point-blank before the three ladies. "Sir," replied Josephine timidly, "I will be as frank, as straightforward as you are. I thank you for the honor you do me." Raynal looked perplexed.
But it is certainly not too much to say that it was impossible for Keble not to make everything that he wrote, whether in verse or prose, literature of the most perfect academic kind, informed by the spirit of scholarship and strengthened by individual talent.
I do not by that mean to say that neither real grandeur nor stability are to be met with in it: but the boldness and the imagination of the Russians know no bounds: with them every thing is colossal rather than well proportioned, audacious rather than reflective, and if they do not hit the mark, it is because they overshoot it. Appearance of the Country. Character of the Russians.
"Have you, indeed?" said Blanche. "And pray, what is it, Mr Evelin?" "Simply this," replied Lance. "I have an impression almost a conviction that your cousin is living, and that I can put my hand upon him when required." "Oh, Mr Evelin! what is this you say?" exclaimed Blanche eagerly.
"You allude to Mr. Hiram Doolittle, a gentleman I never saw; though I hear he has left behind him many traces of his progress in the newer states. Ex pede Herculem, as we say, in the classics, Miss Effingham I believe it is the general sentiment that Mr.
He felt his pulse and his brow; there was no room for doubt; it was the dreaded scourge the fever. We say, sometimes, of hearts that they sink like lead; it does not express the agony.
I remember one case: a chief who had often been on guard at night over our prison had his left leg completely smashed by a stone; without entering into professional details, suffice it to say that I at once pronounced amputation as the only possible remedy; but to please the chiefs, who took a great interest in him, I agreed to dress his wound for a week, and after that time, should I be still of the same opinion to inform them of it.
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