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As the sun sank lower toward the west Ellen took off the atrocity of calico and starch, and he saw with wonder the amazing beauty of her ropes of hair. When he ceased talking the silence became profound, for she had nothing to say and speech did not come easy to her anyway.
Designedly I used the word 'clean'; not only our hostess herself seemed a model of cleanliness, but everything about her, everything in the house positively shone, and glittered; everything had been scoured, and polished, and washed: the samovar on the round table flashed like fire; the curtains before the windows, the table-napkins were crisp with starch, as were also the little frocks and shirts of Mr.
His whole demeanour was formal and starch, which adhered so close, that he could never shake it off in his highest promotion.
A mouthful of real ice-cream spoils your taste everlasting for frozen starch and raw eggs." "Lahoma is a real person," declared Bill, "and a dugout is grounded and bedded in a real thing this very solid and very real old earth, if you ask to know what I mean." "Lord, I knows what you mean," retorted Willock.
He was horrified to see Pompey give the wig a liberal sprinkling of gunpowder from the powder-horn, instead of starch from the dredging-box; and the explosion of the old wig was no longer assigned to diabolical, thaumaturgical, or meteorological influences. Let us turn from the doctor and the wig to the book; let us see what he did when he singed his head and burnt his face.
Careful washing with soap and water daily of the whole body, not only of those parts which may be soiled by the urine or the evacuations; the washing afterwards with pure tepid water; careful drying, and abundant powdering with starch powder, will do much to prevent the accident.
Nancy Wentworth fairly rustles with starch. Justin had n't been engaged to her but a few hours when they walked up the aisle together, but did you notice the way he carried his head? I declare I thought 't would fall off behind! I should n't wonder a mite but they prospered and come back every summer to set in the Old Peabody Pew." I. Mother Ann's Children
Too much she loves thee, or she had not sent thee to Arenta's last night with her best ivory winders." "Oh, Arenta is a very darling! Had she been present this morning, she had taken the starch out of all our fine talk and fine manners. We should have chattered like the swallows about pleasant homely things; and left title-making to graver fools."
But one baked potato would furnish the same energy as the three lumps of sugar; a quarter of a pound of cornstarch would supply the same fuel as the quarter pound of sugar. Nutritionally starch and sugar are interchangeable, the advantage as far as digestion is concerned being with the starch rather than the sugar. And yet we put sugar on starch!
"We are a-going to give the doctor, sir, such a cheer when he comes on deck again three times three, and one in for you. My word, sir, the lads did laugh to see you take the starch out of that there young reefer! It was fine!" "Oh, never mind about that, Joe. But I say, you have been aboard a man-of-war. What would a sloop like that be doing down here?"
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