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Their love led them to convey me and my wife to this village and back again, and truly the Lord gave them a reward in doing so. Between Christmas and the new year, when our money was reduced to a few shillings, I asked the Lord for more; when a few hours after there was given to us a sovereign by a brother from Axminster.
They began to ask where it was that we were going, was it to Axminster, or to Bridport. Word was passed about that we were going to surprise the militia at Bridport at dawn. We were told to keep quiet on the march, after passing Charmouth, as the night was so still that we should be heard far off. We did not know how near the Bridport outposts might come to us under cover of the night.
"A wonderful, deep, soft, heavenly blue, like the sea at noonday." From Axminster to Combe Regis the line runs through country as attractive as any that can be found in the island, and the train, as if in appreciation of this fact, does not hurry over the journey. It was late afternoon by the time we reached our destination.
Thick carpets, as Axminster and Turkey, should always be brushed one way. This can hardly be well done without the aid of a proper carpet-fork or stretcher. Work the carpet the length way of the material, which ought to be made up the length way of the room.
Buyse says that they fought lustily at this ruffle at Axminster, but he is of one mind with me, that a few whiffs of shot and cavalry charges would scatter them over the countryside. Have you any message to leave? 'None, save my love to my mother, said I. 'It is well.
She waved her hand graciously in the manner of the Duchess of Axminster, a supreme hand-waver to indicate that she was all attention. "Your step-son, James Crocker," repeated Mrs. Pett. "What is it the New York papers call him, Peter?" Mr. Pett, the human opossum, came to life.
Besides, I would rather, in the course of twenty years, have two nice, fresh ingrain carpets, of just the color and pattern that suited my rooms, than labor along with one ill-chosen velvet that harmonized with nothing." "I give it up," said Jenny; "I give it up." "Now, understand me," said I; "I am not traducing velvet or Brussels or Axminster.
Axminster carpets, three inches thick; portieres a la Francaise before the doors; Parisian bronzes on the chimney-piece; and all the receptacles that lined the room, and contained title-deeds and postobits and bills and promises to pay and lawyer-like japan boxes, with many a noble name written thereon in large white capitals "making ruin pompous," all these sepulchres of departed patrimonies veneered in rosewood that gleamed with French polish, and blazed with ormulu.
I am ashamed of her!" And he turned haughtily away. And yet In the barn two minutes later, Miss Prue patted Jupiter Ann on the neck a thing she had never done before. "We beat 'em, anyhow, Ann," she whispered. "And, after all, he's a pleasant-spoken chap, and if Mary Belle wants him why let's let her have him!" The Axminster Path
He placed that city and the surrounding country under the government of Sir Edward Seymour, and set out on Wednesday the twenty-first of November, escorted by many of the most considerable gentlemen of the western counties, for Axminster, where he remained several days. The King was eager to fight; and it was obviously his interest to do so.
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