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The city room was a place fit to addle eggs, and from the composing room at the back the stenches of melting metals and stale machine oils came rolling in to us in nasty waves. With his face glistening through the trickling sweat, the major came in about ten o'clock, fanning himself with his hat, and when he spoke his greeting the booming note seemed all melted and gone out of his voice.
And Friedrich wishes, and hopes always, Maria Theresa will agree with him, and get it for her Husband. "But to hang it on Bavaria, which is a lean bare pole? Oh, M. le Marechal! And those Four Kingdoms of yours: what a brood of poultry, those! Chickens happily yet UNhatched; eggs addle, I should venture to hope: only do go on incubating, M. le Marechal!" That is Friedrich's notion of the thing.
It is just because you say that you will not and you may not tell, that, womanlike, I am curious." "But whatever good could it be to you to know?" he protested. "I should simply addle your head with a mass of technical detail, not a quarter of which you would be able to understand. Besides, I have told you, Bertha, it is a matter of honour." She looked intently at her programme.
It's enough to addle your brains, to try to start to follow back all the ways things happen . . . ways you'd never thought of as of the least importance." "Your Uncle Burton was of some importance to us," she told him. "Miss Oldham at the pension said that she had just met a new American, down from Genoa, and when I heard your name I said, 'Oh, I used to know an old Mr.
I crack the nut and you eat the kernel! I tellee once again you've an addle pate o' your own! Go to France to learn to dance, to be sure! Better stay at home and learn to transmogrify a few kink's picters into your pocket. No marry come fairly! Squire Nincompoop! He would not a sifflicate Sir Arthur, and advise him to stay at home, and so keep the rhino for the roast meat!
'If you shake your head in that violent way you'll addle what brains you have got; and I'd take care of 'em, if I were you, began teasing Ted. 'What started this civil war? asked Grandpapa, with a gentle emphasis on the adjective, which caused the combatants to calm their ardour a little.
Eugene danced on his chair and begged to be of the party; but Harriet pouted, and asked why the "odd boy" could not be sent. "Because, as you very well know, if he did not break, he would addle, every egg in the basket. "There can be no need to go to-day." "The speckled hen is clocking to brood, and she is the best mother in the yard.
He'd chase the pig the crathur! till it'd be all ribs like an ould umbrilla with the fright, an' as thin as a greyhound with the runnin' by the marnin; he'd addle the eggs so the cocks an' hens wouldn't know what they wis afther wid the chickens comin' out wid two heads on them, an' twinty-seven legs fore and aft.
Brennan also envisioned a self-destructive device that would addle the heart of the machine at the touch of a button, perhaps booby-traps fitted like burglar alarms that would ruin the machine at the first touch of an untrained hand. Brennan's mind began to work. He must plan his moves carefully to acquire the machine by stealth.
"Don't sit on them with your head downward, or you'll addle them," said Mr. Brush, fiercely. This was the first time Triplet had ever answered a foe. Mrs. Woffington gave him an eloquent glance of encouragement. He nodded his head in infantine exultation at what he had done. "Come, Soaper," said Mr. Snarl. Mr. Soaper lingered one moment to say: "You shall always have my good word, Mr. Triplet."
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