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Yes, he said, he had known him well; he was a merchant in Buenos Ayres, a nice gentle-mannered man, a bachelor and something of a recluse in his private house, where he lived alone and spent all his week-ends and holidays roaming about the plains with his vasculum in search of rare plants. He had been long dead oh, quite twenty or twenty-five years.
Here, I'll give you some collecting boxes, and lend you a vasculum and a net. Go and get me some butterflies." "Well, sir, if it's all the same to you," said Tom, taking advantage of the wind blowing in the right direction, "shooting's more in my way. Suppose I shot you some birds?" "Better still," said the doctor, enthusiastically. "Nothing I should like better.
A lady dressed in crimson velvet he welcomed with the words, "Exactly the colour of my preaching cushion! I really can hardly keep my hands off you." An anonymous correspondent kindly furnishes me with this description of the Valley of Flowers as it was in more recent years: "I visited Combe Florey, with camera and vasculum, in 1893.
And when he would have spoken the words froze on his tongue, for the singing of the choristers passed over them, as the north wind over icy pools, and hushed them into silence: "Dedit fragilibus corporis ferculum, Dedit et tristibus sanguinis poculum, Dicens: Accipite, quod trado vasculum Omnes ex eo bibite." Drink of it, Christians; drink of it, all of you! Is it not yours?
Their sharp eyes quickly marked Simeon filling his vasculum with the coveted specimens, and, waving their hands in friendly greeting, two of them advanced at a gallop.
"It's disgusting to find these girls can beat us hollow at running." "The doctor's specimens are all shaken up into a regular mash!" said Tom Long, peeping into the vasculum hung by a strap from his shoulder. "Never mind," replied Bob. "Here's the boat coming. I shall come with you straight; or no: let's take them on board the `Startler'?" "No, no!" said Tom, "they must come to the fort."
Gerard Godfrey bore materials for an exact transcript of the Abbot's monumental cross, his head being full of church architecture, while Nuttie carried a long green tin case, or vasculum as she chose to call it, with her three vowels, U A E, and the stars of the Little Bear conspicuously painted on it in white. 'You did not venture on that the other day, said Mr. Dutton.
It was at once laboratory, study, and dwelling-room. Two large cabinets, something the worse for transportation, alone formed a link between this abode and the old home at Twybridge. On door-pegs hung a knapsack, a botanist's vasculum, and a geologist's wallet.
Adiesen and his sister came from the house, the former carrying a vasculum and field-telescope, the latter burdened with shawls and umbrellas, which were an insult to the sun, smiling that day as he seldom condescends to smile on Hialtland.
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