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"Then the grocer's cart is jam," promptly retorted Armine, "for I saw a sugarloaf come in one yesterday." "Come on, then," cried Jock, ripe for the mischief; "I know the tree! They are just like long apricots. Aunt Ellen will think her plums have been all a-growing!" "No, no, boys!" cried his mother, "I can't have it done. To steal your aunt's own plums to deceive her with!"
"Neither, youth: 'tis for thy youth's sake, for, though thou hast angered me full oft, art but a very youth " "Gramercy for my so much youthfulness, my lord. Methinks I shall be full long a-growing old " "Heed me, sir knight, 'tis a fell place this, where direful beasts do raven " "Nathless, messire, my youthfulness is but where it would be " "Aye, forsooth, and there it is!
Clifford: "they are rather too old for Prudy, I should judge." "But I keep a-growing, Aunt 'Ria! Don't you s'pose I know what fairy stories mean? They don't mean any thing! You didn't feel afraid I'd believe 'em, did you? I wouldn't believe 'em, I promise I wouldn't; just as true's I'm walking on this floor!" "Indeed, I hope you would not, little Prudy; for I made them up as I went along.
"She'd have been awful pleased with the flowers. They was pretty, and no mistake. Ye see, the deacon wa'n't never willing for her to have a flower-bed. He said 't was enough prettier sight to see good cabbages a-growing; but Mis' Brown always kind of hankered after sweet-smelling things, like roses and such. "What did you say, Levi? 'Most time for supper? Well, land's sake, so it is!
"He's a-growing," said his mother with a smile, and on this theory she usually explained all of her son's vagaries. He still further misled his unsophisticated sister by making no special effort to seek Mildred's society.
A great library cannot be constructed it is the growth of ages. You may buy books at any time with money, but you cannot make a library like one that has been a century or two a-growing, though you had the whole national debt to do it with.
"Because he knows that you are not a private soldier, but a bugle-boy." "Well, I can't help that, can I? I am a-growing, and I dare say I could hit a haystack as well as a good many of our chaps. They ain't all of them so clever because they are a bit older than I am." "Well, don't get into a tiff, Punch. This isn't a time to show your temper." "Who's a-showing temper? I can't help being a boy.
He was aroused next morning by the sweetest of country sounds the sound of a scythe upon the lawn. Then there came the distant call of the street flower-seller, "All a-growing, all a-blowing," which he remembered as long as he could remember anything. The world was waking up, but it was yet early not more than half-past six at the very latest.
"Why, luke at this 'ere town," continued he of the sieve, "the grass be a-growing in the very streets; that can't be no gude. Why, luke 'ee here, zur; I do be a-standing at this 'ere gateway, just this way, hour arter hour, and my heyes is hopen mostly; I zees who's a-coming and who's a-going. Nobody's a-coming and nobody's a-going; that can't be no gude.
He takes his stand in his mosaic-paved hall, and is at the service of all who wish for information about Lago Maggiore, the list of its sights; in a word, the programme of the piece. Yes, they are scraped clean, carefully tended, pretty, all a-blowing and a-growing; but unreal. The palm trees are unhomely, the tropical plants seem to stand behind footlights.
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