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Open your mouth, and swallow down the bitter for the sweet. It would not befit your holiness to abandon the milk for the bitterness.
"I know a story about a man whose son swallowed a mouse," said the Story Girl, who would probably have known a story and tried to tell it if she were being led to the stake. "And he ran and wakened up a very tired doctor just as he had got to sleep. "'Oh, doctor, my son has swallowed a mouse, he cried. 'What shall I do? "'Tell him to swallow a cat, roared the poor doctor, and slammed his door.
That gap of twelve or thirteen per cent. between greenbacks and gold is no doubt an hiatus valde deflendus a gulf which has swallowed up many an ardent and confident Curtius, and will swallow more before it disappears; but the difference is uniform everywhere, and discounts itself.
Tatiana's eyes were grey, her complexion was white, her features small and delicate, and her hair a beautiful dark brown with gold lights and black shadows in it; her movements were quick and her glance keen; she was like a swallow. It happened when the snows melted and the meadows were flooded; the first fine day in April.
This sea was a marvel. Since all the water hazards above described emptied into it, it was little more than a huge expanse of punch, one swallow of which, thanks to these ingredients and the sugar and nutmeg from the bunkers, would make a man forget an eternity of troubles until he woke up again, if he ever did.
Be careful never to taste soups or puddings till you are sure they are sufficiently cool; as, by disregarding this caution, you may be compelled to swallow what is dangerously hot, or be driven to the unpardonable alternative of returning it to your plate. When eating or drinking, avoid every kind of audible testimony to the facts.
Miss Gower," raising her voice slightly, and compelling that terrible old woman to look at her, "will you tell Colonel Neilson where my husband is now?" Poor Colonel Neilson! who is beginning to wish that the earth would open and swallow him up. "It argues ill for you that you should be obliged to ask such a question," says Miss Gower, with a lowering eye. "Does it? How dreadful!" says Mrs.
The danger was over; she was helped on to the bank, where she collapsed in a little heap, while Ralph worked the punt slowly along to the jetty and fastened it to its chain. The short breathing space had allowed Darsie to recover her self- possession, to master the overpowering temptation to cry, and to swallow the lump in her throat sufficiently to be able to say in a weak little voice
What strategy! Our force is superior, yet the foe is pressing unimpeded into the midst of the army. Our troops are dividing as the waters of the Red Sea parted at God's command, and apparently by their leader's order." "To swallow up the Amalekites as the waves of the sea engulfed the Egyptians," was Moses' answer.
Peer could swallow all the prescriptions the one thing he could not do was rest or sleep. He would sit late into the night, prostrate with exhaustion, watching the dying embers of the forge, the steel, the tools. And innumerable sparks would begin to fly before his eyes, and masses of molten iron to creep about like living things over walls and floor.
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