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What we saw, wherever we looked, was an inextricable tumble of mountains, without order or leading line of direction, domes, peaks, ridges, endless and countless, everywhere, some in shadow, some tipped with shafts of sunlight, all wooded and green or black, and all in more softened contours than our Northern hills, but still wild, lonesome, terrible.

Pretty soon he begins to call 'em if things ain't done to suit him. "'Boy, he'll say, 'that bandage is tighter than I like to see it. Always allow the tendon a little play do not impaieh the suhculation. "The boys eat this stuff up it tickles 'em. They treat him respectful 'n' do what he tells 'em. "'Everything O. K. to-day, sir? they'll say. "Ole man Sanford don't tumble they're kiddin' him.

Lincoln does not always show to advantage; later readers have found him inferior in urbanity to Douglas, of whom he disapproved, while Douglas probably disapproved of no man; his speeches are, of course, not free either from unsound arguments or from the rough and tumble of popular debate; occasionally he uses hackneyed phrases; but it is remarkable that a hackneyed or a falsely sentimental phrase in Lincoln comes always as a lapse and a surprise.

Then his right hand slid over the ends of a bush growing out of a fissure. He caught the bush and held on like grim death. The bush gave way, but not instantly, and his descent was checked so that the tumble to the bottom of the hole, fifteen feet further down, was not near as bad as it would otherwise have been.

We passed by moonshine the frightful precipices that divide Bohemia from Saxony, at the bottom of which runs the river Elbe; but I cannot say that I had reason to fear drowning in it, being perfectly convinced that, in case of a tumble, it was utterly impossible to come alive to the bottom.

The prince would rest his head in her lap, and she would tumble his golden hair with her slender fingers and sometimes clip off tresses which she preserved to give to friends of hers as love-locks. But to the last he was either too high or too low for her, according to her own modest thought.

"Only fairly," replied Avon, replenishing the magazine of his gun and keeping his gaze on the plain in front. "It is well enough to drop a mustang, but it is better to tumble their riders off them." "I meant to do that, but failed."

"I should like to shoot one though," said Norman, giving his head a shake in an independent way. "Won't you lend me your gun." "A gun would tumble you over oftener than you could bring down a deer, laddie," answered the laird, laughing heartily.

Yet the tavern humourist, or even the club joker, is as nothing compared with the true professional wit. Who can remember that story about Theodore Hook and the orange? Hook wrote a note to the hostess, saying, "Ask me at dinner if I will venture on an orange." The lady did so, and then the brilliant wit promptly made answer, "I'm afraid I should tumble off."

Those rascals enjoy sticking out their feet and seeing people tumble over them." "The child can't possibly have behaved properly, Kurt, or the district attorney's sons would not have teased her." "I'll fetch Bruno right away and he'll prove to you that Loneli did nothing whatever. He saw it," Kurt cried eagerly with the intention of fetching his brother, who had already started up the hill.