Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
How on earth do you support existence? At all events, you don't, as the railway-carriage phrase has it, object to smoking?" "Not at all. I like the scent, but was never tempted to go further." Waymark filled his pipe, and made himself conformable in a low cane-bottom chair, which had stood folded-up against the wall.
The desolate creature spilled herself loosely into a cane-bottom chair, and her sorrow broke "like a great dyke broken." The writer lifted her tenderly upon his knee and bit her softly on the neck. "Gloriana," said he, "have you chewed up all that toffy in two days?" A smothered sob was her frank confession.
Ralph gave them some paternal advice, and the good housewife, spinning in her cane-bottom chair with straight tall back, smiled pleasantly, and curtsied. To describe the goings on of the two young ladies with that baby is wholly out of the question.
I just came in on a ship from Texas." "Glad to see you, Mr. " said the consul. The Kid laughed. "Sprague Dalton," he said. "It sounds funny to me to hear it. I'm called the Llano Kid in the Rio Grande country." "I'm Thacker," said the consul. "Take that cane-bottom chair. Now if you've come to invest, you want somebody to advise you.
A warm sun shone; a brisk autumnal breeze waved the flag flying from the judges' stand; a brass band in the upper story of that structure thrilled the air with the vibrations of popular waltzes and marches, somewhat marred now and then by mysteriously discordant bass tones; the judges, portly, red-faced, middle-aged gentlemen, sat below in cane-bottom chairs critically a-tilt on the hind legs.
And being English, unless you have a friend in India who has made you aware that cane-bottom chairs are India-English, you will be pretty sure to believe that there is no comfort without carpets and coal; or being an American, you will be apt to undervalue a gallery of pictures with only a three-ply carpet on the floor, and to "calculate," that, if they could see your house in Washington Street, they would feel rather ashamed.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking