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Wealden : Weald-formation. Portland : Upper oolithic. Oxford : Middle oolithic. Bath : Lower oolithic. Lias : Liassic. Keuper : Upper triassic. Muschelkalk : Middle triassic. Bunter : Lower triassic. Permian : 14. Zechstein : Upper permian. Permian : 13. Neurot sand : Lower permian. Carboniferous sandstone : Upper carboniferous. Carboniferous limestone : Lower carboniferous.
"News!" exclaimed the crushed sceptic through his iands. "Ay, news enough, Captain Johns. Who will be able to deny the awfulness, the genuineness? Another man would have dropped dead. You want to know what I had seen. All I can tell you is that since I've seen it my hair is turning white." Bunter detached his hands from his face, and they hung on each side of his chair as if dead.
Towards the close of 1747 he had, as before stated, rooms in Back Lane, Twickenham; and it must be to this or to some earlier period that Walpole alludes in his Parish Register : "Here Fielding met his bunter Muse And, as they quaff'd the fiery juice, Droll Nature stamp'd each lucky hit With unimaginable wit;" a quatrain in which the last lines excuse the first. According to Mr.
Bunter at last opened his eyes, but he could not speak. He was dazed and inert. The steward bandaged a nasty scalp-wound while Captain Johns held an additional light. They had to cut away a lot of Mr. Bunter's jet-black hair to make a good dressing. This done, and after gazing for a while at their patient, the two left the cabin. "A rum go, this, steward," said Captain Johns in the passage.
McCall fairly spouted defiance as he faced Vane. "Pitch! It's all off! An' you know it!" If Vane knew that, he showed no evidence of it. His face was cold, unsmiling, rigid. He had to pitch to McCall, the fastest man in the league; to Ashwell, the best bunter; to Stringer, the champion batter. It was a supreme test for a great pitcher.
Then one day dear Mrs. Bunter got a letter from a legal firm in the City, advising her that her uncle was dead her old curmudgeon of an uncle a retired stockbroker, a heartless, petrified antiquity that had lasted on and on. He was nearly ninety, I believe; and if I were to meet his venerable ghost this minute, I would try to take him by the throat and strangle him.
At that sight the persecuted Bunter would wring his hands stealthily, and break out into moisture all over his forehead. After standing sleepily by the binnacle, scratching himself in an unpleasant manner, Captain Johns was sure to start on some aspect or other of his only topic.
'No; and the Lord Mayor's not come; nor Postlethwaite, nor Bunter. What's the meaning of it? Todd looked first at one neighbour and then at another before he answered. 'I'm here, that's all I can say, Mr Melmotte; and I've had a very good dinner. They who haven't come, have lost a very good dinner. There was a weight upon Melmotte's mind of which he could not rid himself.
Upper Lias, argillaceous, with Ammonites striatulus. FOREIGN. Keuper beds of Germany. Cassian or Hallstadt beds, with rich marine fauna. BRITISH. Wanting. FOREIGN. Muschelkalk of Germany. BRITISH. Bunter or Lower New Red sandstone of Lancashire and Cheshire. FOREIGN. Bunter-sandstein of Germany. BRITISH. Upper Permian of St. Bees' Head, Cumberland. FOREIGN. Dark-coloured shales of Thuringia.
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