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Updated: June 10, 2025
Indeed, aphides form almost the sole food of the entire lady-bird tribe in their earlier stages of existence; and there is no better way of getting rid of blight on roses and other garden plants than to bring in a good boxful of these active and voracious little grubs from the fields and hedges.
But for the enemy whom he hated, he might now be a boxful of dissected bones in the poor man's lot instead of still enjoying the prospect, dear to the scion of an ancient race, of occupying his shelf in the family vault. Although a soldier, he had such intimate relations with the civil powers, that the police aided him in searches which he took care astutely to represent as quite non-personal.
Six of you! It doesn't take six women to lay one carpet, surely!" Nan groaned dismally. "It does indeed, and then they can't do it! It's nasty, horrid, rough, heavy work, only fit for men, and not for our poor little fingers. We had just succeeded, with immense labour, in fastening it all round when we made the cheerful discovery that a boxful of nails are scattered over the floor beneath.
The governor had promised to send them down new furs, and a great boxful of novels! He did not apprise them that he meant to sell their horses. Their horses were his! He was an indulgent father and did not stint them, but he was not going to ask their leave! At the same time he had not the courage to tell them.
Mebbe I'll look into this cattle-stealin' in your neighborhood, and if I do I'll sure come borrowin'." "Oh, I'll send you a boxful when I get back," said Alaire, and Dave thanked her humbly. Later, when he went to move his mare into a shady spot, the Ranger chuckled and slapped his thigh with his hat. "Bessie Belle, we're going to improve our minds," he said, aloud.
In a store, however, it would be natural to take down a boxful, and place it on the counter, to be selected from at random. One is picked up, used, and thrown back.
"What a time you've been," said Meg from the table, where she was mending a boxful of her gloves. "Well, what did she say?" Just at her elbow was the gay bonbonniere containing the brown, cream-encrusted walnuts. "She said, 'All right," said Bunty gruffly. Meg counted the eight chocolates out into his little grimy hand, and resumed her mending with a relieved sigh.
When the time came for him to leave the Stevensons and return to his family in China, it nearly broke his heart to go. Mrs. Stevenson writes of him: "Ah Fu had as strong a sense of romance as Louis himself. He returned to China with a belt of gold around his waist, a ninety dollar breech loader given him by Louis, and a boxful of belongings.
The first idea was to get her a Welsh pony; the second was to hire a piano from the county town; the third was to send for a boxful of novels from London. I must confess I thought these projects for pleasing her very happily conceived, and Owen agreed with me. Morgan, as usual, took the opposite view.
I couldn't bear to be left alone by myself with all these pressing and encompassing mysteries. "Jane," I said after a few minutes' careless talk for I didn't like to tell her about my wonderful dream, "where exactly did you find the picture of that house hanging over in the corner there?" "Lor' bless your heart, miss," Jane answered, "there's a whole boxful of them at The Grange.
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