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He took off his coat and started to make a roll of it for a pillow. But he stopped when he had it half finished. "Maybe he wouldn't like that," he muttered, looking down at the garment as he unrolled it again. It had been made for a man. There were rents in two places and plentiful sprinklings of grease spots. The day was growing steadily warmer. Even under the tree one felt the heat.
He passed beneath the shadow of the yews, whose leaves no winter wind can strew, and paused at the ruined tomb, no flower now on its stone, only a sprinkling of snow at the foot of it, sprinklings of snow at the foot of each humbler grave-mound.
Here again we are dealing with a dangerous public enemy to both health and comfort, which can and ought to be abated by cleanliness, oilings, and sprinklings. Typhoid bacilli are also occasionally carried by shellfish, especially oysters, on account of the interesting modern custom of planting them in bays and harbors near the mouths of sewers to fatten them.
This journey had brought us down the Nyarling and 15 miles down the Buffalo. It rained all night; next morning the sun came out once or twice but gave it up, and clouds with rain sprinklings kept on. We had struck a long spell of wet; it was very trying, and fatal to photographic work.
Saint-Aignan did not know which way to turn. La Valliere had about her, not exactly a court, but sprinklings of courtiers. Saint-Aignan, hoping by this maneuver to attract Athenais's attention towards him, approached the young girl, and saluted her with a respect that induced some to believe that he wished to balance Athenais by Louise.
Of course the padres do not get up these ceremonial exhibitions for mere amusement not they. There are various little "blessings," and "indultos," and sprinklings of sacred water, to be distributed on these occasions not gratuitously and the wretched believer is preciously "plucked" while he is in the penitent mood at the same time he is promised a short and easy route to heaven.
And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it was his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy with all poor men, that led him straight to Scrooge's clerk's; for there he went, and took Scrooge with him, holding to his robe; and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinklings of his torch.
In searching for the cause of birth it is not unnatural that it should be ascribed to a preëxistent being who desires to enter again into human life. +187+. The ablutions or sprinklings of water practiced in some places appear to be merely the expression of welcome into the community. The choice of a name for the child is frequently connected with religious ideas.
But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.
Drowsily they whirred all through this sunny day, making the passenger more sleepy and more hot as he passed the humming walls of the mills. Sun-blinds, and sprinklings of water, a little cooled the main streets and the shops; but the mills, and the courts and alleys, baked at a fierce heat.
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