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More recently he had been observant of Christian Moxey's speech, which had a languid elegance worth imitating in certain particulars. Buckland Warricombe was rather a careless talker, but it was the carelessness of a man who had never needed to reflect on such a matter, the refinement of whose enunciation was assured to him from the nursery. That now was a thing to be aimed at.
'You haven't come across some friends of theirs called Moxey? 'Oh yes! Miss Moxey was there one afternoon about a fortnight ago. 'Did you talk to her at all? Buckland asked. 'Yes; we hadn't much to say to each other, though. How do you know of her? Through Sylvia, I daresay. 'Met her when I was last down yonder.
Must 'ave." Then he returned to the Paddock, passing a bookie with uplifted hand of protest. "Get away from me, Satan," he said. "Don't tempt an old man what's never fell yet." "I know all about that, Mr. Woodburn," grinned the bookie. "I got my principles same as them as 'asn't," continued the old man, marching firmly on. "You go and tell that to the Three J's, Mr. Buckland.
It is always, indeed, apparent as a leading characteristic, but it breaks loose only on occasions when it may be safely and not unattractively displayed. "Life of Frank Buckland." By his Brother-in-Law, George C. Bompas. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company.
Buckland Denham, a village prominently perched on a hillside 3 m. N.W. from Frome. It was once a busy little town with a flourishing cloth trade. The Norm. S. doorway and the device by which the upper part of the porch has been converted into a parvise should be noticed. Three chapels are attached to the church.
It must not be inferred that the friends of birds in England have been idle or silent in the presence of the London feather trade. On the contrary, the Royal Society for the Protection of Wild Birds and Mr. James Buckland have so strongly attacked the feather industry that the London Chamber of Commerce has felt called upon to come to its rescue. Mr.
'Father would not abandon me, but I should darken the close of his life. Buckland would utterly cast me off; mother would wish to do so. You see, I cannot think and act simply as a woman, as a human being. I am bound to a certain sphere of life. The fact that I have outgrown it, counts for nothing. I cannot free myself without injury to people whom I love.
Fourth Brigade, composed of the Seventy-second Ohio, Colonel Buckland; the Forty-eighth Ohio, Colonel Sullivan; and the Seventieth Ohio, Colonel Cookerill, on the right of the Corinth road, its left resting on Shiloh meeting-house.
Buckland observed that the alevins of the char very frequently hatch out head first, and consequently that many of them die before they can work themselves free from the eggs.
Buckland tried a number of experiments upon toads in this manner experiments wholly unnecessary, considering the trivial nature of the point at issue and his conclusion was that no toad could get beyond two years without feeding or breathing.
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