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"Yes, but you will want more, now that you have room for them." "Azaleas O azaleas are lovely," said Matilda. "They are showy too; and you want a show, Norton." "So do you, Pink." "Well, I like azaleas," said Matilda. "Do they cost much?" "Not so very. I guess you can have some." "O what a geranium!" Matilda exclaimed. "'Lady James Vick' 'seventy-five cents each' but what a lovely colour, Norton!
I know that she was far from being tall, and far from being showy; that her feet and hands were small and delicate; that her eyes were bright when looked at, but not brilliant so as to make their brilliancy palpably visible to all around her; her hair was dark brown, and worn very plainly brushed from her forehead; her lips were thin, and her mouth, perhaps, in general inexpressive, but when she was eager in conversation it would show itself to be animated with curves of wondrous energy; and, quiet as she was in manner, sober and demure as was her usual settled appearance, she could talk, when the fit came on her, with an energy which in truth surprised those who did not know her; aye, and sometimes those who did.
My father and mother were vain, showy, ambitious people of the world, and they were as ashamed of my brother as they were proud of myself. However, he afterwards entered the army and distinguished himself highly. He died in battle, leaving an only daughter, who married, as you know, a nobleman of high rank. Her subsequent fate it is now needless to relate.
It is needless to add that this export of manufactures to England, on which Napoleon prided himself, was limited to showy but worthless articles, which were made solely ad usum delphinorum. It was fortunate for us that Napoleon entertained these crude ideas on political economy; for his action opened for us a loophole of escape from a very serious difficulty.
Where it fails is in what touches Seneca himself, not in what touches the reader. It is a style which does injustice to its author's heart. Its glitter strikes us as false because too brilliant to be true; a man in earnest would not stop to trick his thoughts in the finery of rhetoric; here as ever, the showy stands for the bad.
Waffles were bills but they were good bills, and of such reasonable date as the most exacting of the Jew tribe would 'do' for twenty per cent. Mr. Sponge determined to keep the game alive, and getting Hercules and Multum in Parvo together again, he added a showy piebald hack, that Buckram had just got from some circus people who had not been able to train him to their work.
It could lose him his place, but it would not be fair, if it happened before the edict about "Understanding Communications" was promulgated. The By-law book makes a showy pretence of orderliness and system, but it is only a pretence. I will not go so far as to say it is a harum-scarum jumble, for it is not that, but I think it fair to say it is at least jumbulacious in places.
"Yes, I think I can guess," admitted Cartoner, with his slow smile. "But you won't tell me?" "No. When do you expect them?" "I'll answer that and ask you another," said Captain Cable, getting a yellow decanter from a locker beneath the table. "That's port ship-chandler's port. I won't say it's got a bokay, mind." For Captain Cable's hospitality was not showy or self-sufficient.
Get a few first-class things, the rest decent and substantial, but not showy. I'll pay for the suits I've got to get. They'll have to be ready-made and very good ready-made ones a man can buy nowadays. We'll go to the tailor's first thing about seven o'clock in the morning, which'll give him plenty of time for alterations."
The pollen of the black willow may fertilize the flower of the white willow, with a result that certainly tends to grayness on the worrying head of the botanist who, in after years, is trying to locate the result of the cross! There is much variety in the willow flowers and I wonder how many observers really notice any other willow "blossoms" than those of the showy pussy?
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