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It bore records of over-lubrication, of struggles with stiff outer covers, of rain and mud that bird-lime type of mud peculiar to French military roads in the Alpes Maritimes while a zealous detective might have found traces of the black and greasy deposit that collects on the door handles and side rails of P. L. M. railway carriages.
There can be no doubt but that this is perfectly practicable, and we recommend it to our readers. The object in making the bird-lime from wheat consists in the fact that this is more easily removed from the feathers than the other kinds.
The only salvation for your shattered houses! Point them up well with the bird-lime of the brewer, the quack, or the money-lender, and they'll last till doom'sday!" Thus bitterly spoke the mother. She brooded and scorned, raged inwardly, and took to herself dishonour, until evidently she was wasting. The chief's heart was troubled; could it be that she doubted his strength to resist temptation?
I never was there but once, and my slipper come off for the muck, a sticking to a body like bird-lime." There was a knock at Nancy's street door; the little servant, full of curiosity, was for running to it on the instant. But Nancy checked her. "Take your time," said she. "It is only a lodging-house keeper."
"Between him and this girl here I think we ought to be able to recover Strangwise's lost property for him!" "But you haven't got Okewood yet!" observed the lady in a mocking voice. The man looked evilly at her, his heavy, fat chin set square. "But we shall get him, never fear. With a little bird-lime as attractive as this " He broke off and jerked his head in the direction of Barbara.
One kind of fig-tree is often seen hacked all over to get the sap, which is used as bird-lime; bark-cloth is made of it too. I like to see the men weaving or spinning, or reclining under these glorious canopies, as much as I love to see our more civilized people lolling on their sofas or ottomans.
Great traps must be devised, or bird-lime might possibly be produced. Arthur made a mental note to ask Estelle if she knew anything of bird-lime. A vague, humming roar, altering in pitch, came to his ears. He listened for some time before he identified it as the sound of the wind playing upon the irregular surfaces of the tower.
Wirth saw a husband for Isaure, and accordingly proceeded to surround Godefroid with the mazy circumlocutions of his Alsacien's geniality, that most adhesive of all known varieties of bird-lime. "Mme. d'Aldrigger was radically 'improper. She thought love the most natural thing imaginable.
Some bell-flowers close at night; others hang the mouths downwards; others nod and turn from the wind; stamens bound down to the pistil in Amaryllis formofissima; pistil is crooked in Hemerocallis flava, yellow day-lily Thorns and prickles designed for the defence of the plant; tall Hollies have no prickles above the reach of cattle Bird-lime from the bark of Hollies like elastic gum
Thus, while Henry was holding high council with his own most trusted advisers, and with the most profound statesmen of Europe, as to the opening campaign within a fortnight of a vast and general war, he was secretly plotting with his father-confessor to effect what he avowed to be the only purpose of that war, by Jesuitical bird-lime to be applied to the chief of his antagonists.
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