United States or Dominica ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
He did not go to the college called Harvard, good old Alma Mater as she is. He was not fed on the pap that is there furnished. As he phrased it, "I know no more of grammar than one of your calves."
How shall we be able to pass No. 14 Infirmary Street and feel that all its attractions are over? How shall we bid farewell for ever to that excellent man, with the long greatcoat, wooden leg and wooden board, who acts as our representative at the gate of Alma Mater? But alas! he had no choice: Mr.
I can't get up. My tummy won't let me." "Oh, Julian, why do you do it?" said Mrs. Lorimer, in great distress. "You know what your father said the last time." She bent over him. Julian was her favourite of them all. But he turned his face sharply to avoid her kiss. "Don't, Mater! I don't feel up to it. I can't jaw either. I believe those dashed cigars were poisoned.
Richard Harding Davis and Matthew McClung were two Lehigh men whose position in the football world was most prominent. The esteem in which they are held by their Alma Mater is enduring. I had talked with Dick Davis when this book was in its infancy. He was very much interested and asked that I write him a letter outlining what I would like to have him send me.
Dion stared towards him but said nothing. "She told me I was to set your mind at rest." "Did she?" "Yes. I believe she thought us a couple of fools for kicking us such a dust about her." Dion said nothing. "I don't know, but I've an idea girls and women often think they can laugh at us," added Jimmy. "Anyhow, it'll be a jolly long time before I put myself in a sweat about the mater again.
"Cowardly rather, of course, but it might be easier for the mater down in Devon his mother, I mean did I say he was Devon? same county as myself affair would be hushed up, and she would have his memory clean.
And make the dear mater come too, if someone else doesn't snap her up first." But the dear mater was already snapped up, and Anne had some difficulty in avoiding a like fate. Eventually, however, she succeeded in making her escape, and she and Dot drove back to the Dower House, congratulating themselves. "I am lucky to get you all to myself," Dot said.
"And you tell me Dinah has run away?" "Yes, cleared out," said Billy tersely. "It was an idiotic thing to do, for the mater is downright savage this morning, and she'll only give her another hiding for her pains. She stayed away all day once before, years ago when she was a little kid, and, my eye, didn't she catch it when she came back! She never did it again till now."
She had tea sent up to Imogen and tea sent up to the Pottses; but no messages of any sort accompanied either perfectly appointed tray, and when the dinner hour arrived she faced the Pottses' speechless dignity and Imogen's mater dolorosa eyelids with perfect composure. She seemed, on meeting the Pottses, neither to ignore nor to recall.
Considering the short time you have had for preparing a pretty speech of welcome it does you undoubted credit." "Oh, my, Nap!" she said. "I'm past making pretty speeches at my age. I just say what I mean." A gleam of surprise crossed his dark face. "That so, alma mater?" he said. "Then considering all things again thanks!"
Word Of The Day