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He had only got them on appro'. Spick and span in their new uniforms, they came to drill daily on our parade ground. Slowly the change took place. They were "rookies" no longer, and the adjutant's sarcasm was a thing of the past. Commands were pronounced distinctly and firmly; the officers were trained men, ready to lead a company of soldiers anywhere and to do anything.
Take a fur coat on appro from the shop." Often thereafter he bade his wife to take such a message. But Gwen had overcome her distress and she strew abroad her charms; for no man could now suffice her. So she always departed to one of her lovers and came back with fables on her tongue. "What can you expect of the Welsh?" cried Enoch in his wrath.
She had no rejoinder ready. 'Ye can tak' ma arm, if ye like, he said presently, just a little too confidently. 'I dinna feel in danger o' collapsin' at present, she replied, regarding the ring under the lamp they were passing. 'Ye're an extravagant thing! she went on. 'I hope ye got it on appro. 'What dae ye no like it?
'Go anywhere you like and bring me back two or three perfectly simple tea-gowns you know the sort of shape, rather like evening cloaks straight lines none of the new draperies and curves in red, blue and black. 'On appro.? asked Miss Bennett. 'On anything you like, but made of Liberty satin, with a dull surface. 'There's no such thing. Grace Bennett laughed.
When we reached the tableland we had to go a long way round to avoid a good many little wadis which were all quite steep, before we reached the water. At the edge of the tableland are some little shelters used by hunters to shoot gazelle, which come down the gullies that to us appeared, inaccessible. Near the water the soldiers made us climb down to the first story of a small wadi, where we sheltered under a shelf of rock which overhangs the whole end of it. When I was cool, I clambered up and found a hollow or depression above our heads, with a few tufts of grass and some shrubs, so I took down some bits of shrubs as 'samples on appro' to the horses, and as they did approve, they were sent up to graze. We lay on our saddle-cloths till three, pretty hungry, when the eight camels came, and a good long time after the others arrived also the relation of the sultan Sal
"You see, it wasn't as if the Yanks had chosen out the half of what he'd brought on appro.; they'd gone slow on purpose, and they'd paid for all they could on the nail, just for a blind. Well, I suppose you can guess what happened in the end? The jeweller never heard of those Americans again; and these few cigarettes and lumps of sugar were all he found." "Duplicate boxes?
An opening had been given him, and it was possible for him to do his duty. "If you wish, sir, I will make a list," he ventured further, "and the proper firms will send persons to bring things down from London on appro." "What's 'appro' the English for?" "Approval, sir." "Good business! Good old Pearson!" "Thank you, sir. Shall I attend to it to-night, to be ready for the morning post?"
By addresses like this which is now proposed, my lords, has his majesty been betrayed into an inadvertent appro bation of measures pernicious to the nation, and dishonourable to himself, and will now be kept ignorant of the despicable conduct of the war, the treacherous connivance at the descent of the Spaniards upon the dominions of the queen of Hungary, and the contempt with which every nation of the continent has heard of the neutrality lately concluded.
Cadge, shortly, "I likes people wot knows when to 'old their tongues." "Very true, very true!" amiably replied Mr. Snavely, "but for all that, there is nothing sweeter than the artless babble of babes; I declare it almost brought the tears to my eyes when I heard them prattling, 'Everybody works but father, it is so very, very appro " Mr.
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