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It is time to go back to them. Why, I declare, I have been three-quarters of an hour away!" "I don't think they will much miss you, my dear," says the gentleman. "She is certainly very fond of him. She is always coming here. I am sure it is not to hear you read Shakspeare, Arthur; or your new novel, though it is very pretty.
No skin made can cover an animal that is a quarter of an inch long one week and three-quarters of an inch long the next, and so on growing in leaps and bounds until it gets up to three inches and sometimes more. Think of growing at that rate! And the little gourmands are not eating all the time, either, because after they are hatched it is three days before they eat much.
He had, however, but little fear that the enemy would have posted sentries so far down the river, especially as he would only just have pitched his camp opposite Limerick. It was three-quarters of an hour before he heard a faint splash in the water. The sentry heard it, too. "Shall I challenge, sir?" "No. Wait for a minute. We shall soon see whether it is Larry.
No further exploration was made, indeed, for three-quarters of a century after the Cabots, but from this time on the idea of a North-West Passage and the possibility of a great achievement in this direction remained as a tradition with English seamen. It was natural, then, that the English sailors of the sixteenth century should turn to the northern seas.
The development of variety of fiction since the days of Scott and Cooper is prodigious. The prejudice against novel-reading is quite broken down, since fiction has taken all fields for its province; everybody reads novels. Three-quarters of the books taken from the circulating library are stories; they make up half the library of the Sunday-schools.
After leaving these creeks we had four miles of sand hills, very rich with feed, thence over some stony ground to the creek, all good; my course brought me about three-quarters of a mile to the south of the creek, which I expected. Distance from the springs to this water hole, two miles; this is a very long water hole, with plenty of water in it, and the feed good.
"That was a good run, boys," said he; "not quite two hours an uncommonly good run for an old tub like this. Now where shall we land?" "I vote we land on Welkin Island," said Charlie. Welkin Island was separate about three-quarters of a mile from the mainland, famous for its caves and shells. "All serene," said Hall, putting the boat about; "stand by."
He was advised to plant the holly behind the ditch, but he thought his plan the best, and to protect the young plants he made a little fence of odd sticks and bits of old wire and hoop iron. But the sheep would get in, so he made a new ditch; and then something else, until in the course of years the three-quarters of an acre had been appropriated.
For a moment they stood half blinded by the storm, unable to see clearly what kind of room they were in or to tell whose were the voices they heard so plainly. A great fluttering, cackling, and complaining was going on close to them, and a hoarse voice cried out: "One hundred and seventeen and three-quarters feathers to be multiplied by two-sevenths of a pound. That's a sweet one!
About three-quarters of an hour after this first scene the infantry, followed by the cavalry, entered the place, which, in a few moments was entirely covered with military. The Allied sovereigns at length appeared, attended by brilliant staffs. They alighted from their horses and advanced to the altar.
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