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If she had written all this to me instead of coming and delivering it viva voce, it would probably have produced no effect; there would have been no tears, no ravishing features. She probably calculated all this, for women have a wonderful instinct in these matters. That very evening I began my visits, and judged from my welcome that my triumph was nigh at hand.
"My dear Jane," he said, sotto voce, "there are several things which these children do which will astonish you very much. Don't you think you had better give up the scheme?" "Not I, David," she replied. "The more I see of the poor neglected mites the more I long to rescue them from evident destruction." He shook his head and looked with some pity at Iris.
"Potz tausend! the man is fou!" shouted Mac. "Come, drink your wine, Ned, and we'll have our coffee. It is quite time, I think, and he used to be a three-bottle fellow," muttered my dear old friend, sotto voce. "'Heu, heu! tempora mutantur, et nos' well, well, well!" Clarian's Picture! What a gush of recollection the words evoke!
That I slept on my post I will not deny; but I pray you hear my excuse. I did not see many horse tracks in the road, however, and took it that our forces had captured all their horses, and that the rebels were taking it on foot, as we were. "Here Gen. Sleeman laughed, and said sotto voce: 'That boy ought to be put in command of our cavalry, instead of being shot.
The version, circulating viva voce, ran as follows: "That reminds me of the camp where a bear suddenly made his appearance and scattered the party. All save one shinned up trees, or got behind rocks, and that one meeting the animal head on, before he could turn, seized bruin by the ears and held on 'like grim death to a dead nigger.
The next morning the episode, in various forms, was somehow common knowledge and a source of immense diversion. George went through the second day, but lifelessly. He was sure he had failed. Apart from the significance of the fact that the viva voce counted for 550 marks out of a total of 1200, he felt that the Royal Institute of British Architects would know how to defend its dignity.
Tragedy performs it, viva voce, or by Action in Dialogue: wherein it excels the Epic Poem; which does it, chiefly, by Narration, and therefore is not so lively an Image of Human Nature. However, the agreement betwixt them is such, that if Rhyme be proper for one, it must be for the other.
A vote of 100,000 pounds to indemnify those who had suffered from the rebels subsequently increased to above 1,000,000 pounds was passed una voce; another, placing on the Irish establishment certain English militia regiments, passed with equal promptitude.
The biped knock of the post alighted on the door at twelve, and two letters were placed upon my German dictionary, your own, which I at first intended to reply to vivâ voce, had not the second informed me of my brother's arrival in England, his short leave of absence, and his intention to visit me here next week.
And now the music mistress took her place at one of the pianos, the top of the instrument was lowered, and Miss Fane, a little fair girl with a round face and frizzy auburn hair, came simpering forward to sing 'Una voce, in a reedy soprano, which had been attenuated by half-guinea lessons from an Italian master, and which frequently threatened a snap.
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