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Updated: June 24, 2025
I'm a reg'lar book-worm, when I gits where they's readin'." "I mind the winter I bached on Crooked Crick I tamed a mouse," ventured Lannigan. "He got so sociable he et out of my fingers." "He shorely must have been fond of you." Ma Snow looked fixedly at Lannigan's hands.
Few men so analyse, dissect, search out the precise, exact meaning of words and phrases, so carry you away from vague generalities to accurate defined meanings and doctrines. He had an honest and clear brain of his own, though he was a tremendous book-worm; and I think he is a great authority, though I know about him and his antagonism to Rome.
After that I watched him. "I was interested," said the First Lieutenant shortly; his eyes, in one swift glance captain-wards, said more. "Quite. I was only trying to prove you were a book-worm." "What was the book?" enquired Sir William. "Oh, Meredith, sir. Richard something-or-another. Topping yarn." The guest steered the conversation out of literary channels.
A different conclusion as to study is to be drawn from the corrected state of his manuscripts, and the variety of his knowledge; and with regard to books, he not only mentions the library of the Vatican as one of his greatest temptations to visit Rome, but describes himself, with all the gusto of a book-worm, as enjoying them in his chimney-corner.
The whole expanse of the rolling prairie, to those brave hearts, was one boundless uncertainty. This language may possibly be pronounced redundant. It may be in phrase; it is not in fact. The carpet-knight, the holiday ranger, the book-worm explorer, knows but little of the herculean work which has furnished for the world a practical knowledge of the western half of the North American continent.
Rage surged up in the breasts of the most timid, and fear vanished before the passion for revenge; cowardice turned to martial ardor, and philosophers and artists thirsted for blood. The red glare of strife danced before the eyes of the veriest book-worm; fired by the terrible impulse to kill, to subdue, to destroy the foe, they fought desperately and blindly, staking their lives on the issue.
They do not want a librarian who has a great reputation as a linguist, or an educator, or a book-worm, but one who knows and cares about making their funds go as far as possible, and can show them how he has saved by restoring old books, enough money to pay for a great many new ones. Nothing is more common in public lending libraries than to find torn leaves in some of the books.
Lately his father had said more often than ever, "I really will try to arrange with Dr Budge," and now it had actually been done. Now Dr Budge was an old book-worm, supposed to be engaged in writing some mighty and learned work, who lived in a cottage on the Nearminster road.
Rage surged up in the breasts of the most timid, and fear vanished before the passion for revenge; cowardice turned to martial ardor, and philosophers and artists thirsted for blood. The red glare of strife danced before the eyes of the veriest book-worm; fired by the terrible impulse to kill, to subdue, to destroy the foe, they fought desperately and blindly, staking their lives on the issue.
Osborn handed him the small round box which he had been turning. "I amuse myself so. It's my hobby." "You don't feel the want to read of an evening?" "No, I'm not a book-worm. But one has to do something; so I took up this. If folk chaff me" and Mr. Osborn smiled and nodded his head "well, I tell them that infinitely better people than I have done carpentering in their time.
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