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Updated: June 10, 2025
This sponge drinks up all the liquid, and, filling the inside, melts the hard meat, absorbs it, and turns it into a cellular substance, while a white bud, hard and powerful, pushes its way through one of the eyes of the shell, bores through several inches of husk, and reaches the air and light.
Doomed us despite our will to bear * The hands of base bores cark and care." When he ended his verse he cried out and fell down in a fainting fit. This is how it fared with him; but as regards Nuzhat al- Zaman, when she heard that voice in the night, her heart was at rest and she rose and in her joy she called the Chief Eunuch, who said to her, "What is thy will?"
Had he been doomed to live with commonplace persons, he might have sought to conciliate them; but he really lived in another sphere, not perhaps higher than theirs, but eternally distinct, in the sphere of abstract truth. To him most people were either babblers or bores. What did he care for their envious shafts, or even for their honest disapprobation!
Verdurin's life, so the 'bores, the 'nuisances' grew to include everybody and everything that kept her friends away from her, that made them sometimes plead 'previous engagements, the mother of one, the professional duties of another, the 'little place in the country' of a third. If Dr.
I cannot help feeling that his conversation is not worth the paraphernalia. I can talk better than that myself. The late Professor Huxley, who took some trouble over this matter, attended some half-dozen seances, and then determined to attend no more. "I have," he said, "for my sins to submit occasionally to the society of live bores.
The people who want each other cannot go off together and lose themselves, leaving the bores to find only each other. You are in close company from early morn till late at night. We were to drive twenty miles, six in a sledge, dine together in a lonely Wirtschaft, dance and sing songs, and afterwards drive home by moonlight.
'And let philosophy be destroyed? 'That it never will be, as long as Hypatia lives to illuminate the earth; and, as far as I am concerned, I promise you a clear stage and a great deal of favour; as is proved by my visiting you publicly at this moment, before I have given audience to one of the four hundred bores, great and small, who are waiting in the tribunal to torment me.
"What does it mean?" she asked of Lady Mary, with whom she stood apart for a moment. "Oh, they are worked to death, paying calls, entertaining, receiving people on all sorts of business, and helping their husbands in various ways. They have no time to be selfish, rich or poor, and they have acquired the art of disposing of bores and detrimentals in short order.
But since it has become the custom to throw open the meetings for remark and exhortation, there has been a jubilee among the religious bores who wander around pestering the churches. We have two or three outsiders who come about once in six weeks into our prayer-meeting; and if they can get a chance to speak, they damage all the interest.
She seemed always glad to see and talk with him, allowing herself to express a decided interest in his doings, and never once throwing on him the burden of a conversational deadlift in the manner with which a girl knows how to discourage all but the dullest of bores.
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