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The little house Will had reserved for our use contained a stool and a string-cot. On the stool was food cheese and very dry bread; and because even in that waking dream we were conscious of hunger, we ate a little of it. Then we lay down on the floor and fell asleep we, and the prisoners, and the eight Armenian riflemen.
"And who, mistress of the chemist's shop, hath taught thee his art?" "'Tis a great and awful thing that hath happened; indeed, oh! King, I knew not the things were under the stool " "Then 'twas unfortunate thou shouldst remain seated before thy King; in this case 'twas condemning." And he turned and cried, "Hi! hi! call the guard!
When the stool was finished he threw in the table, then the dresser, and after that the oak-chest and the window-seat. Still they feasted and were not fed. Noodle fetched an axe, and broke down the door; then he wrenched up the boards from the floor, and pulled the beams and rafters out of the ceiling; yet, even so, his guests were not to be satisfied.
His presence changed nothing in the order of our arrangements, because his armchair was always there, alone, at the end of the table, and M. le Duc d'Orleans, whether his Majesty came or not, had but a "stool" similar to those we all sat upon. Step by step this council had been so much increased, that now, by the entry of the Duc de Berwick, it numbered sixteen members!
"What's that you say, John, boy?" "I want to leave school and come into the shop and help you," John answered. "God love you, son, what put that notion into your head?" "I don't want to be a burden to you, Uncle William!" "A burden to me!" Uncle William swung round on the high office stool and regarded his nephew intently. "Man, dear, you're no burden to me! Look at the strength of me!
If she assailed him from behind, dropping something down his neck or pushing him off his wooden stool, he restrained himself, and was merely thankful that his bones were still unbroken. All his best hours were spent in the skipper's garden, and this garden was a wonderful place, which might well hold his senses captive.
It was a small, square, whitewashed cell, completely unfurnished; all the furniture had to be brought from Marnell Place. Not much was allowed. A mattress and blanket by way of bed, a stool, and a crucifix, were the only articles permitted. The barred window was very small, and very high up. Here Margery was to remain until September. The days rolled wearily on.
But he had gone, and being alone, for she thought me senseless, she drew a rough stool to the side of the bed, and seating herself studied Leo, who lay thereon, with an earnestness that was almost terrible, for her soul seemed to be concentrated in her eyes, and to find expression through them.
Popular superstition in Abyssinia attributes the same power to the Felashas or Jews. Our Elixir, a corruption of the Arabic El Iksir. In the Somali tongue its name is Barki: they make a stool of similar shape, and call it Barjimo. Specimens of these discourses have been given by Mr. Lane, Mod. Egypt, chap. 3. It is useless to offer others, as all bear the closest resemblance.
She put up a thin little hand, and rubbed it ingratiatingly up and down the shiny silk lap, to the stupefaction of Mason, who came in at that moment bearing a plate of hot scones, and retired to give a faithful rendering of the position to her allies in the kitchen, sitting down on the fender stool, and stroking the cook's apron in dramatic imitation, while that good lady and her satellites went into helpless fits of laughter.
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