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As he comes near to them the cities crumble, the woods shrivel and fall, the farms fade out of Picardy, even the hedgerows go; it is bare, bare desert. He had been sure of Paris, he had dreamed of Versailles and some monstrous coronation, he had thought his insatiable avarice would be sated.
Was it good news, or news to shrivel my heart up as with fire? I tore off an end an' pulled out the sheet. It didn't take long to read it. CHICAGO, August 17, 187-. MRS. PYNCHEON: I find that my wife has been dead a year. The letter dropped from my hand. It was the heart-breaking end of a love story the closin' up of one of those little tragedies which the world seldom hears about.
About three weeks later the tip begins to shrivel, and from this on the process steadily continues, until at birth it has contracted to about one-fifteenth of the bulk of the cæcum. But the process doesn't stop here, though its progress is slower.
In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up; but in that other atmosphere they expand, and find encouragement and educative fellowship. It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard, uncharitable world there should still be left a few rare souls who think no evil. This is the great unworldliness.
"'But, Kenelm, you're always so fond of cranb'ry pie. "'Me? It makes me shrivel just to look at it. Pass that sugar bowl, so's I can sweeten ship. "Next day 'twas salt fish and potatoes that wa'n't good.
This one kept pointing the pistol at the man's head on the floor, and saying: "I'd LIKE to! And I orter, too a mean skunk!" The man on the floor would shrivel up and say, "Oh, please don't, Bill; I hain't ever goin' to tell." And every time he said that the man with the lantern would laugh and say: "'Deed you AIN'T! You never said no truer thing 'n that, you bet you."
But he was awake, lying back on the pillows, with his eyes half closed. He was looking out into the garden, which was part orchard, now beginning to shrivel and to brown with the first touch of frosts. "That is you, Richard?" he inquired, without moving. "What is going forward to-day?" I toned down the news, so as not to excite him, and left out the occurrence in Hanover Street.
She tells Bessy about the Old Squire. She says "He do be a real old skinflint, the Old Zquire a be!" But she thinks it "zim as if 'twas having ne'er a wife nor child for to keep the natur' in 'un, so his heart do zim to shrivel, like they walnuts Butler tells us of as a zets down for desart. The Old Zquire he mostly eats ne'er a one now's teeth be so bad.
Among the diplomatic controversies of history, rarely refreshing at best, few have been more drouthy than those once famous disquisitions, and they shall be left to shrivel into the nothingness of the past, so far as is consistent with the absolute necessities of this narrative.
They were then left to disport themselves as they pleased which, of course, meant rolling about on the ground, their garments tied up under their arms, leaving them bare from the waist. No wonder that sitting on cold and wet stones had threatened to shrivel up their thin legs, which looked wonderfully shaky at best.
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