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In a few weeks they destroy the largest trunks of trees, carry away all descriptions of putrid substances, and particles of vegetable decay, which, in such a climate as Africa, amply compensates for the ruin which they otherwise occasion.
The idea struck me that I could manufacture spirit from this source, as they were so excessively sweet as to be disagreeable as a vegetable. Accordingly I collected a great number of large jars that were used by the natives for brewing merissa; in these I boiled several hundredweight of potatoes to a pulp.
Some process was required which should not restrict the decorator to the curves and straight lines of the simpler geometrical figures, which should allow him to make use of motives furnished by the animal and vegetable kingdom, by man and those fanciful creations of man's intellect that resulted from his attempts to figure the gods.
"That makes sense. Imagine none of us thinking of that! But then, we've always thought of them merely as dumb beasts." "So I've been wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea either to move the stockades every month or so, or else let the natives 'feed' out in the open jungle every day the sunlight would probably help them, too, being vegetable.
"Are you comfortable?" "Oh, yes. We live very quietly. I, being a stonemason and a carpenter, stay behind and keep the house in repair. In summer we have our little vegetable gardens down behind those trees where the Boches can't see us." "Can I see the house?" "Surely; just wait till I have finished sousing these clothes."
The extract may be prepared from one or more of these vegetables, according to the supply on hand or the tolerance of the digestive organs and the taste and preference of the patient. They should be ground to a pulp in a vegetable grinder, then pressed out in a small fruit press, which can be secured in any department store.
And if any of you who read this think we were a silly lot to be frightened by an old cow, it is because you have never met one at night, in a thick fog. You try it some time, and see. We went down a little slope, and came up behind the house and barn. We crossed a vegetable patch, and then a flower-garden. Jimmy stopped Mr. Daddles. "We'd better look out for the dog."
An isolated man is immensurable; he is also unpicturesque, unnatural, untrue. He is no longer the lord of Nature, animal and vegetable, but Nature is the lord of him; the trees, skies, flowers, predominate, and he is in as bad taste as green and blue, or as an oyster in a vase of roses. The race swings naturally to clusters.
In the surrounding field, at a distance of 20 yards from the abbey, the fine vegetable mould was 11 inches thick.
The Bad Boy and His Dad Arrive in Cairo At the Hotel They Meet Some Egyptian Princesses Dan Rides a Camel to the Pyramids and Meets with Difficulties. Cairo, Egypt. My Dear Old Irish Vegetable: Gee, but you ought to see dad and I right now at a hotel, waiting for a chance at a room, when a bride and groom get ready to vacate it, and go somewhere else.
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