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Some were like pygmies, some had bloody noses. Their talk consisted of feverish, breathless ejaculations, a gibberish in which the words "rot," "oach," and "giddy" were preeminent. Some were exciting themselves by chewing a kind of "bhang" made from the plant called pappahmint; others had their faces streaked with djam. "But who is this they are ducking in the pool?" asked Pi Bol.
"Ye would not dream that he was absolutely choking with grateful emotion?" "We would not," said the animals. "But why are they all running back the way they came?" asked Pi Bol. "They are going back to punishment. Great is its power. Have ye not heard the gospel of Rhuddyidd the mighty? 'Force is everything! Gentleness won't wash, courtesy is deceitful. Politeness is foreign.
Jean or Hans Bol, born December, 1534, was the pupil of his uncles Jacques and Jean the Elder, but after two years of apprenticeship he went to Germany for a time. Returning to Malines, he devoted himself to the painting of landscapes with great success. Likewise he sometimes engraved plates on copper. His productions are many. He died at Amsterdam in 1593.
And yet I will show you that I can thrust my hand into a blazing fire and suffer no harm. "In an old book I read that to enable one to thrust one's hands into the fire all you had to do was to anoint them with a mixture of bol armenian, quicksilver, camphor and spirits of wine.
W'en de nashuns er de earf is a stan'in all aroun, Who's a gwineter be choosen fer ter w'ar de glory-crown? Who's a gwine fer ter stan' stiff-kneed en bol'. En answer to der name at de callin' er de roll? You better come now ef you comin' Ole Satun is loose en a bummin' De wheels er distruckshun is a hummin' Oh, come long, sinner, ef you comin'!
During the day we happened to call upon the ispravnik or Russian governor, and in course of conversation mentioned the "Anadyrski bol," and related some of the stories which we had heard from Paderin.
In this field stand preeminent Van der Heist, Hals, Covaert, Flink, and Bol.... Finally, there are still two important excellences to be recorded of this school of painting its variety, and its importance as the expression, the mirror, so to speak, of the country.
Through the street of wine Wijnstraat built over stonehouses used for the staple, we went to the museum to see the pictures. There were two schools of Dortrecht. Jacob Geritee Cuyp ; Albert Cuyp , Ferdinand Bol , Nicolas Maas , and Schalken belonged to the former; Arend de Gelder, Arnold Houbraken, Dirk Stoop, and Ary Scheffer are of the latter.
"I believe in God and in our Saviour Jesus Christ," replied the Cossack, as he crossed himself devoutly. "That's all right, and so you ought," rejoined the Major; "but that has nothing whatever to do with the 'Anadyrski bol. Do you really believe that these women talk in the Yakut language, which they have never heard, and describe things which they have never seen?"
As he went out Levin met many more acquaintances, with whom he talked of politics, of music, and of common acquaintances. Among others he met Count Bol, whom he had utterly forgotten to call upon. "Well, go at once then," Madame Lvova said, when he told her; "perhaps they'll not be at home, and then you can come to the meeting to fetch me. You'll find me still there."
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