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His waist of buttocks maketh moan, that lay upon his feet A very camel's load, what time he would a-walking hie.
Right or wrong, nobody would believe him. As to the probabilities, I don't myself think, said Mr Willet, eyeing the corners of the room in a manner which showed that, like some other philosophers, he was not quite easy in his theory, 'that a ghost as had been a man of sense in his lifetime, would be out a-walking in such weather I only know that I wouldn't, if I was one.
But the thing that seemed to interest the doctor, and made him frown, was the idea that all them niggers round about there still had the idea he was the feller that had been prophesied to come. All except Sam, mebby. Sam had spells when he was real sensible, and other spells when he was as bad as the believingest of them all. It was a fine day, and really joyous to be a-walking.
"My Aunt Grace was very fond of Shock. She used to give me skim-milk at breakfast, but she gave Shock cream; and she often made me carry him when I went out a-walking. For this reason I hated him, and when we were out of my aunts' hearing I used to pull his tail and his ears and make the poor little thing howl sadly. My Aunt Penelope had a large tabby cat, which I also hated and used ill.
By this means they left me, and I left them also bustling with and hairing one another. Thus did I escape frolic and lively, gramercy roastmeat and cookery. How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris. Pantagruel one day, to refresh himself of his study, went a-walking towards St.
"This is to keep the burghers's feet dry, a-walking o' Sundays with their wives and daughters," said Denys. Those simple words of Denys, one stroke of a careless tongue, painted "home" in Gerard's heart. "Oh, how sweet!" said he. "Mercy! what is this? A gibbet! and ugh, two skeletons thereon! Oh, Denys, what a sorry sight to woo by!"
If, twenty years from now," said Pomona, her tears welling out afresh, "I should see a young woman with eyes like Corinne's, an' that I felt was her, a-walking up to the bridal altar, with all the white flowers, an' the floatin' veils, an' the crowds in the church, an' the music playin', an' the minister all ready, I'd jist jerk that young woman into the vestry-room, an' have off her shoes an' stockin's in no time.
A sickly shimmer lies upon the dripping house roofs, and all the colour is washed out of the green and golden landscape of last night, as though an envious man had taken a water-colour sketch and blotted it together with a sponge. We go out a-walking in the wet roads. But the roads about Grez have a trick of their own.
I'd ever so much sooner be a-walking across the turnips by the footpath from Darkin home. 'Couldn't we, for once in a way, stay somewhere over-night? 'It might as well be two, said Mrs Marshall; 'Saturday and Sunday. 'Two, said Madge; 'I vote for two.
Vincent step up into the cabinet, jerk the curtains this way and that, and at last sit easily back, in such a way that his face could be seen in a kind of twilight, and the rest of his body perfectly visible. Then silence came down upon the room. The cat of the next house decided to go a-walking after an excellent supper of herring-heads. He had an appointment with a friend.
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