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They assured me that I was so perfectly to their taste, as to have but one fault against me, which I might easily be cured of, and that was my modesty: this, they observed, might pass for a beauty the more with those who wanted it for a heigh tener; but their maxim was, that it was an impertinent mixture, and dashed the cup so as to spoil the sincere draught of pleasure; they considered it accordingly as their mortal enemy, and gave it no quarter wherever they met with it.

Tully, rather incautiously and exultingly told his hearers that the defence in 1886 of the tenant's house known as "Fort Saunders" had been a grand and gallant affair indeed, but that next time "the exterminators would have to storm a castle"! This put Mr. Tener at once on the alert, and as Mr.

Get up an appetite. How do you say that in Spanish? Tener buen diente, eh? All right. See you do it." Lola stood at his knee, solemn and mute. She took his jests with an air of formal courtesy, barely smiling. She had a queer little half-civilized look in the neat pigtails which Jane considered appropriate to her age, and which were so tightly braided as fairly to draw up the girl's eyebrows.

"And the cattle, sir? would we get protection for the cattle? They'd be murdered else entirely." "Of course," said Mr. Tener, "the police would endeavour to protect the cattle." Then, turning to me, he said, "That is a very reasonable question. These scoundrels, when they are afraid to tackle the men put under their ban, go about at night, and mutilate and torture and kill the poor beasts.

And was there ever a brighter or more fitting day for a children and bird jubilee! The scene was so inspiring that Gov. Tener made one of the best speeches of his life. The distribution of several hundred cherry and mulberry trees was the occasion, and the beautiful grounds of the Roosevelt school, Carrick, was the scene. Mr.

DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Qué descuido el tuyo!... no tener siquiera un bocado de pan en casa. DON EDUARDO. Como nunca tienes apetito en semejantes días.... DOÑA MATILDE. Ya, pero ... ¿y ? DON EDUARDO. Oh, lo que es por no te inquietes, y si no te enfadaras te confesaría.... DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Qué?

Blunt and other sympathising statesmen very handsomely on their visit to Loughrea and Woodford, "Dr." Tully being one of the guests invited to meet them. Not far from this presbytery, Mr. Tener showed me the scene of one of the most cowardly murders which have disgraced this region.

Vieira derives 'Tenerf' or'Chenerf' from the last king; and old MSS. have 'Chenerife. The popular voice says it is composed of 'Tener, mountain or snow, and of 'ryfe, snow or mountain. The same occurs in the Eev. Mr. But the scientific object that it includes under the same name several different races. Glas, who knew something of Shilha, or Western Berber, made the same observation.

Ogni dolcezza, ogni pensiero umile Nasee nel core a chi parlar la sente; Ond' e beato chi prima la vide. Quel ch'ella par quand' un poco sorride, Non si pub dicer, ne tener a mente, Si e nuovo miracolo gentile." DANTE: la Vita Nuova. By that delightful morning when the hay-ricks at Stone Court were scenting the air quite impartially, as if Mr.

Una democracia verdadera no puede existir mitad libre y mitad esclava, mitad con representación y mitad sin representación en las funciones públicas. El pueblo no es solamente hombre sino también mujer, y, en igualdad de condiciones, la mujer debe tener los mismos derechos políticos que el hombre.