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And many of their sermons which I heard more than forty years ago are still fresh in my memory, and continue to exert a happy influence on my heart. William Dawson was a local preacher, a farmer. He was a large, broad-chested, big-headed, strong built man, one of the finest specimens of a well-made, thoroughly developed Englishman I ever saw. And he was full of life.
"I only want to look at it in the Gough, you see, Paddy, an' how dare you give me such an answer, you big-headed dunce, you go off an' study it, you rascally Lilliputian off wid you, and don't let me see your ugly mug till you know it." "Now, gintlemen, for the Classics; and first for the Latinaarians Larry Cassidy, come up wid your Aisop.
One might have fancied that the big-headed babies were toppling over with their hydrocephalic attempts to reckon up the children of men who transform their benefactors into their injurers by the same process. The yard or two of smile on the part of the alligator might have been invested with the meaning, 'All about this was quite familiar knowledge down in the depths of the slime, ages ago.
Sharp-shouldered, big-headed, short-legged, of no particular color, of little elegance in flight or movement, with a disagreeable flirt of the tail, always quarreling with their neighbors and with one another, no birds are so little calculated to excite pleasurable emotions in the beholder, or to become objects of human interest and affection.
She yawned as she rose and realized that her previous night's sleep had been fitful. She wondered as she began to undress if she would dream of Scobbs or no, she didn't want to dream of big-headed men with white faces, and the thought awoke a doubt in her mind. Had she bolted the door of the flat?
Among these are the wolf fish; the curiously formed tobacco-pipe fish; the big-headed dolphins or anglers; the hand fish, with its long fins; and the rook fish. are deposited in nine cases. The next case is devoted to hard-coated fish, as the Callichthes, which are cased with a thick scale armour; and the hard-coated Loricaria.
Snakes too began to show themselves. I killed two of a very abundant species big-headed, and of a bright green colour, which lie coiled up on leaves and shrubs and can scarcely be seen until one is close upon them. Brown snakes got into my net while beating among dead leaves for insects, and made me rather cautious about inserting my hand until I knew what kind of game I had captured.
The big-headed babies were equally obliging in lending their grotesque aid to the general effect. 'You see, Mr Venus, I've lost no time, said Mr Boffin. 'Here I am. 'Here you are, sir, assented Mr Venus. 'I don't like secrecy, pursued Mr Boffin 'at least, not in a general way I don't but I dare say you'll show me good reason for being secret so far. 'I think I shall, sir, returned Venus.
On the side farthest from us the mules and horses are stabled, but one would never know that an animal was near if those big-headed mules did not occasionally raise their voices in brays that sound like old squeaky pumps. When it is pleasant they are all picketed out.
I was for going ahead the day we missed you, but that big-headed little rascal insisted on hunting for you after seeing you leave the wreck. Where's Jim and Phillippi, and the rest?" The sincerity of his welcome had taken me off my guard, and I found myself standing there shaking his hand. Then I recovered myself. "It's a pity Captain Thompson missed this ship the day she sailed," I said quietly.
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