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I had stupidly forgotten to unpack my revolver, and worse, we had no food, and the mountain air is an appetiser, and at night the woods have their dangers, apart from being absolutely trackless. We had not met a living being since we left the road and there seemed no likelihood of asking for directions.
For her this liquid is doubtless a beverage of delicious flavour, with which she relieves from time to time her staple diet of the honey distilled by flowers, some highly spiced condiment, appetiser or aperient, or perhaps who knows? a substitute for honey. Although the qualities of the liquid escape me, I see at least that Odynerus cares nothing for the rest.
Can't you distinguish a pale figure standing there, quite motionless?" * Fennel-root, eaten raw, a favourite "appetiser" in Rome during the spring and autumn. Trans. The young man began to laugh. "Oh! well," said he, "it must be the Holy Father in person. You are so anxious to see him that your very anxiety conjures him into your presence."
He reminded himself of his hunger, and argued that he did not want anything "fancy." He would go to a grill and order just what he liked, and a lot of it. The "Trocerdilli" was just the place. First of all would come a "short one" not that he needed an appetiser! He imagined himself seated at a table, the cloth startlingly white, the cutlery and glasses reflecting a thousand points of light.
He would also give the sufferer a kind of grass to eat, and this herb, besides clearing the system, also acted as a most marvellous appetiser. The capacity of some of my blacks was almost beyond belief. One giant I have in my mind ate a whole kangaroo by himself. I saw him do it. Certainly it was not an excessively big animal, but, still, it was a meal large enough for three or four stalwart men.
Nobody took any interest, and he turned on his heel, pushed the swing-door open, and departed. Then Donovan came in, closely followed by Bevan. Peter got up and made towards them. "Hullo!" said Bevan. "Have an appetiser, padre. Lunch will be on in twenty minutes. What's yours, skipper?" The three of them moved on to Peter's chair, and Bevan dragged up another.
'Why, sir, you seem to me to hang back a little, said I. 'Come, I'll meet you; I'll give you an appetiser though hang me if I can understand the man that wants any enticement to hold up his hands. I drew a bank-note out of my fob and tossed it to the landlord. 'There are the stakes, said I. 'I'll fight you for first blood, since you seem to make so much work about it.
"It's the air," said Mr. Rose. "Crosstrees' air is the greatest appetiser known to man. If I could bottle it and sell it, I'd make my everlasting fortune. Now, may I ask what you young ladies have on hand for this afternoon?" "Nothing particular," said Dotty. "Why?" "Because I asked a few young people from the neighbouring camps to come over here for awhile." "A party?" cried Genie.
But see here, Colonel, do you see this? showing him a great rent in the breast of his coat and vest; 'a pretty close call, wasn't it? "'By George! it was that! "'Well, never mind; but was not this about as nice a little fight as you would wish to have for an appetiser? "'Yes, you are quite right; and that reminds me that I have not had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning.
There must be millions of youngsters in the world who have never known hunger, except as an appetiser to their dinner; who have never felt what it was to be tired, without the knowledge that a comfortable bed was awaiting them. To the well-to-do man or woman life is one perpetual nursery.
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