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She stole a glance at it, when it grew stiller, and saw that the teat of its feeding-bottle was out of its mouth. 'There, there suck! she said, readjusting it. The baby opened its eyes and shot a smile at her, a wonderful, trustful smile from great blue eyes.
The same master engraved, also after the designs of Giulio, the Wolf on the Tiber suckling Romulus and Remus, and four stories of Pluto, Jove and Neptune, who are dividing the heavens, the earth, and the sea among them by lot; and likewise the goat Amaltheia, which, held by Melissa, is giving suck to Jove, and a large plate of many men in a prison, tortured in various ways.
"They're terrible beautiful and terrible," said Starr, "like figures that have been brought to life and have sprung at you out of a picture, to suck your blood in answer to some wicked wish, that you regret the minute it's uttered." "It was a shock to be undeceived, just at the last!" sighed Phyllis. "My nerves are quite upset."
I shall never forget the beautiful humming-birds, with magnificent plumage gleaming in the sun, and tongues fine as needles, yet hollow, with which they suck the juices from flowers. We did not, on account of the heat, recommence our journey till the afternoon. The planter accompanied us. I heard him and the captain talking about the outbreaks of the fugitive negroes in former days.
It sometimes falleth out that the children of women in child-bed are thus changed, and Devils laid in their stead, one of which more fouleth itself than ten other children do, so that the parents are much therewith disquieted; and the mothers in such sort are sucked out, that afterwards they are able to give suck no more."
'Yes', said the foal; 'but if you'll only kill all the other foals, so that I may run and suck all the mares one year more, you'll see how big and sleek I'll be then. Yes! the lad was ready to do that; so he killed all those twelve foals, and went home again.
Her wonderful hair, that ruddy-tinted mass of burnished gold which was her most striking feature, made him suck in a whistling breath of sensual appreciation. Without a moment's hesitation, hat in hand he went to meet her. As he came up his foxy eyes were alight with what he intended for a grin of amiability.
From time to time they gave him little pieces of ice to suck. Once he opened his eyes, looked round the room and spoke. "Is your mother there?" "Do you want her?" Eliot said. "No. It'll only upset her. Don't let her come in." He closed his eyes and opened them again. "Is that Anne?" "Yes. Who did you think it was?" "I don't know...I'm sorry, Anne."
Clear 'nuff that, so me take eggs, eat tree, bring six, young massa." "I am afraid, Sam," Tom said, laughing, "your story would hardly save you from the triangles, if you had been caught. However, as it is rude to return a present, of course you cannot take them back to the hen. I suppose they are raw?" "Yes, massa; no good make fire; make hole bofe ends, suck 'em."
Their generally long bills have been spoken of by some naturalists as tubes into which they suck the honey by a piston-like movement of the tongue; but suction in the usual way would be just as effective; and I am satisfied that this is not the primary use of the tongue, nor of the mechanism which enables it to be exserted to a great length beyond the end of the bill.
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