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Primrose, and it has been suggested that Sterne remembered him in more than one page of Tristram Shandy. Next to Parson Adams, perhaps the best character in Joseph Andrews though of an entirely different type is Lady Booby's "Waiting- Gentlewoman," the excellent Mrs. Slipslop.
Before she had time to say any more the visitor himself entered, a tall spare priest with a dark narrow countenance of the true Tuscan type, a face in which the small furtive eyes twinkled with a peculiarly hard brilliancy as though they were luminous pebbles.
Type as he is of universal benevolence to sailors, to thieves, to the victims of thieves, to children known by his broad red face and flowing white hair the traditions of the East always represent him as standing in the midst of the assembly, and suddenly roused by righteous indignation to assail the heretic Arius with a tremendous box on the ear. One more group of deputies closes the arrivals.
Such, briefly stated, is the problem before the public at the present time. Even the brief survey given in the first chapter will have suggested to the reader that the people who ask for knowledge seek it for various reasons. Indeed, the first thing that strikes anyone who gives consideration to the subject is the difference in type and circumstance of the people for whom relief is claimed.
The Basts are not at all the type we should trouble about. I may go round to them myself in the morning, and do anything that is fair. In writing this, Margaret felt that she was being practical. Something might be arranged for the Basts later on, but they must be silenced for the moment. She hoped to avoid a conversation between the woman and Helen.
The clutch is of large diameter and lined with hard wood, power and ready facility being provided by the hand lever seen at the top of standard and the screw which it operates, for shifting to in and out of gear. The patentees and makers of this type of gear are Messrs.
In the night, after they had had their tents pitched for a long period, when only the watchers' eyes were open, the pillar lifts, and in an instant the alarm is given, and all the camp is in a bustle. That is what we have to set before us as the type of our lives. We are to be as ready for every indication of God's will as they were.
Hetherington had previously proclaimed his innocence, claiming that the Doctor had shot first and he had simply shot in self-defense, but his previous record was bad, he having killed a Doctor Baldwin in 1853 and had run a gambling joint on Long Wharf, and eye witnesses claimed that he not only provoked but shot first. Brace was of a different nature, he was a hardened criminal of a low type.
All but unknown by a busy world outside, the memory of this Paris apothecary has none the less been cherished for nearly three hundred years in many a Canadian home. Had all the seigneurs of the old regime served their king with half his zeal the colony would not have been left in later days so naked to its enemies. But not all the seigneurs of Old Canada were of Hebert's type.
But now Malcourt, as a type, attracted his attention; and for a moment he contrasted this rather florid example with the specimens of young men around him. Then he looked at Shiela Cardross.
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