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The ragamuffins, encouraged by a very ill-advised distribution of coppers which had taken place at their first onslaught, were collecting about the table with clamorous entreaties for l'ultimo. Uncle Dan had begun it by his inability to resist the supplicating eyes of a beatific midget who chewed the hem of her frock with the whitest of little teeth.
A perfectly oval face, soft delicate complexion, large dark eyes full of expression, a small aquiline nose, but somewhat large mouth, and the whitest and smallest of teeth. Such was the apparition before me. She could not have been more than sixteen. I could scarcely restrain from giving vent to my admiration in speech, when the old Turk returned.
Then, as storm succeeds storm and snow is heaped on snow, the whole tree is at last buried, not again to see the light of day or move leaf or limb until set free by the spring thaws in June or July. Not only the young saplings are thus carefully covered and put to sleep in the whitest of white beds for five or six months of the year, but trees thirty feet high or more.
Every little colony of houses has its church and school-house peeping from among the white roofs and shady trees; every house is the whitest of the white; every Venetian blind the greenest of the green; every fine day's sky the bluest of the blue. A sharp dry wind and a slight frost had so hardened the roads when we alighted at Worcester, that their furrowed tracks were like ridges of granite.
As he said this he motioned them out of the room. As he was leaving, Craigin called him back. "I want to see Maclennan," he said gruffly. "Wait till to-morrow, Mr. Craigin," replied the doctor, in soothing tones. "I want to see him now." The doctor called Mr. Maclennan back. "Maclennan, I want to say there's the whitest man in these mountains. I was a blank, blank fool.
Sometimes a less quantity of isinglass will do, according to the goodness; Let it be the whitest and clearest you can get. You must make it the day before you want it for use. To make SCOTCH OYSTERS.
I ain't hatin' anything or anybody no more. You're the whitest man I know, Bremner, and you got me beat six days for Sunday." "Her Knight Proved True"
She had smooth brown hair as smooth as silk-an' a pair iv soft coaxin' eyes an' the whitest little teeth you ever seen; an', bedad, she was every taste as much in love wid himself as he was. Well, now, he was raly stupid wid love: there was not a bit of fun left in him.
They kept him to lunch and told him they believed him and that nobody could cram any money down their throats with a ramrod. Hey? What do you think of that?" "They may be green campers, but they're the whitest green campers I ever heard of," I said. "You said it," Bert shouted. "They told Skinny to stay right there with them and never mind about the fellows over at camp.
The landlord, in plain clothes, and bareheaded, placed himself on the bottom marble step, abreast the PORTIER, who stood on the other end of the same steps; six or eight waiters, gloved, bareheaded, and wearing their whitest linen, their whitest cravats, and their finest swallow-tails, grouped themselves about these chiefs, but leaving the carpetway clear.
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