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Spurious porcelains, fraudulent armour, faked china were everywhere. The loaded cabinets and the glazed cases were one long procession of faked Dresden and bogus faience, of Egyptian enamels that had been manufactured in Birmingham, and of sixth-century "treasures" whose makers were still plying their trade and battening upon the ignorance of such collectors as he.
There was much commotion going on around the boat, battening down hatches and doing the last few necessary things before braving the reeling deep. Little Stephen was watching his chance to get aboard. He was going as a stowaway. A man came up to him. It was the captain, and before the lad could escape the man said, "Here, I want a cabin-boy will you go?"
The Big Interests were so swollen that they went ahead on their own affairs and paid little attention to the community on which they were battening. They saw to it that if any laws concerning them had to be made by the State Legislatures or by Congress, their agents in those bodies should make them. A certain Mr.
Enjoy to-day's gifts and the gods will provide for to-morrow." "Indeed?" asked Karnis in an altered key. "To be sure when a roast fowl flies into one's mouth instead of a pigeon.... But you are right as usual, Herse, as usual, only here am I battening like a senator while you I lay a wager you have drunk nothing but milk all day and eaten nothing but bread and radishes. I thought so?
Enjoy to-day's gifts and the gods will provide for to-morrow." "Indeed?" asked Karnis in an altered key. "To be sure when a roast fowl flies into one's mouth instead of a pigeon. . . . But you are right as usual, Herse, as usual, only here am I battening like a senator while you I lay a wager you have drunk nothing but milk all day and eaten nothing but bread and radishes. I thought so?
With the obedience that was natural to her, Kathleen went down at once, and the captain made everything as snug as possible, battening down the hatches and shortening sail so as to be ready for whatever might befall. "I don't like the look o' things, Mr. Moor," said the captain when the second mate came on deck to take his watch. "No more do I, sir," answered Mr. Moor calmly.
And he thought of Captain Peek, Katie's father, a man he dreaded and abhorred; a genteel loafer and spendthrift, battening upon the labour of his women-folk; a very queer fish, and, according to repute, not of the freshest. The night had turned chill and foggy. The heart of the town, with its noises, was left behind.
Government contractors were growing fat on the life of war, amassing vast fortunes, juggling with excess profits, battening upon the flesh and blood of boyhood in the fighting-lines.
Slowly we wind among the little squares of intrenchments, whose deadliest occupants now are peaceful cows and sheep, slowly among tall trees, ghouls that thrust out their slimy, cold fingers everywhere, battening on horrid banquets, nay, sorrowful trees, not so. Your gentle, verdant vigor nourishes no lust of blood.
Gaunt dogs were busy here, growling, tearing, and gnawing; amongst whom, unintimidated, stalked the carrion vulture, fiercely battening and even disputing with the brutes the garbage; whilst the crow hovered overhead and croaked wistfully, or occasionally perched upon some upturned rib bone. "See," said the Mahasni, "the kawar of the animals.
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