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It is true; but I shoot at their heel, at their vulnerable part. I beg your pardon for taking up your time with these trifles. The day after to-morrow we go in cavalcade with the Duchess of Richmond to her audience; I have got my cravat and shammy shoes. Adieu! PARIS, Jan. 25, 1766.
And so it turned out; he hoped he would be invited to speak at a scientific meetin' to take place in Festival Hall in a day or two, and bein' to the Inside Inn he'd tried to orate his speech in his own room, but it is built so shammy you can hear things from one end to the other, and they threatened him with horse whippin' on one side and lynchin' on the other, and bein' drove to it he tried it on the Esquimeauxs.
"He had shammy leather gloves on, and was in Hickman's cab. Hickman waited for him at the hall gates and then took him back." "And he's not been here since?" "I fancy, but I ain't sure, that I did see him one day in a car," said Mrs. Bonner; "but I couldn't swear to it." Twice he had seen "Her" from the window of Mrs.
So I called Blandina, her room wuz only jest a little ways from ourn, and we had a good lunch and felt recooperated. We slep' as well as we could considerin' the size and hardness of the mattress and pillows, and the confidences that wuz bein' poured into us onbeknown from both sides. The house is built dretful shammy.
No, Sir, you had good Clothes when you came first, but they dwindled daily, till they dwindled to this old Campaign with tan'd coloured Lining once red but now all Colours of the Rain-bow, a Cloke to sculk in a Nights, and a pair of piss-burn'd shammy Breeches. Nay, your very Badge of Manhood's gone too. Gay. How, Landlady! nay then, i'faith, no wonder if you rail so. Land.
When it sees any one coming, it stamps on the ground with its fore feet and makes a sharp cry. Then all start off. They leap from crag to crag till they are far out of danger. The skin of the chamois is very soft. It is made into a fine, soft leather. This leather is called shammy leather. Have you ever seen a piece of shammy leather? The flesh of the chamois is very good to eat.
After he had bowed and smiled greasily, he tucked his napkin tighter under his chin and fell once more upon the gravy. He sopped his bread in it and scooped it up with his knife. But after there was no more gravy he wished to converse. He scrubbed his lips with one end of the napkin and called across to Ruth, who shrank behind her mother: "Vell, Miss Dene, you have today a shammy seen, not?"
Markham by her mother, was brought also and rubbed up with what Eunice called a "shammy," and the pickles, and preserves, and honey, and cheese and jellies, and the white raised biscuits and fresh brown bread, and shredded cabbage and cranberry sauce, with golden butter, and pitchers of cream, were all arranged according to Eunice's ideas.
He might question whether the mirrored image of himself that he saw daily was real or refracted light made into a roseate image of the mind, but at the very least his face, unlike many middle aged men he knew, did not look like a squished shammy that he used to burnish the shine of his Mercedes Benz GL sports utility vehicle, that same vehicle which he had abandoned in the drive a few weeks ago for that emergency taxi ride to the hospital.
"You are right, Larry," said Burn; "it's but fair that Paddy should put down the first." "Molly, achora," said Donovan to the wife, who, by the way, was engaged in preparing the little feast usual on such occasions "Molly, achora, give me that ould glove you have in your pocket." She immediately handed him an old shammy glove, tied up into a hard knot, which he felt some difficulty in unloosing.
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