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We must therefore conclude, that the south of England was under water when that gravel was formed; and that immense quantities of the chalk above had been destroyed by the agitation of the sea in preparing such quantities of gravel which still remain upon the land; besides the immense quantities which must have been dispersed all around during the operation, as well as carried into the sea by the rivers since the elevation of our land.
Except during a short time just preceding and during his stay in London he seems never to have been an atheist; neither was he ever quite a Christian; but as between atheism and Christianity he was very much further removed from the former than from the latter. He used to call himself a deist, or theist; and said that a deist was as much like an atheist as chalk is like charcoal.
She gave her head a little toss and, returning to the pantry, closed the door after her. Captain Bowers, still somewhat dazed, returned to his chair and, gazing at the "Rules," which still lay on the table, grinned feebly in his beard. To keep such a romance to himself was beyond the powers of Mr. Chalk.
"I was talking about it to Captain Bowers only the other day. That's how I got to hear of the treasure." Mr. Tredgold started and gave a significant glance at Mr. Stobell. In return he got a wink which that gentleman kept for moments of mental confusion. "What did the captain tell you for?" pursued Mr. Tredgold, returning to Mr. Chalk. "He wanted you to make an offer.
I never saw him look so tall. "My friends," said he, "I I " But something choked him. He could not go on. Then he turned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk, and, bearing on with all his might, he wrote as large as he could: "Vive La France!" Then he stopped and leaned his head against the wall, and, without a word, he made a gesture to us with his hand; "School is dismissed you may go."
And then to some it may be the roar and bustle of Piccadilly that comes back to haunt them in their exile the theatre, the music and the lights, the sound of women's skirts; or the rolling Downs of Sussex with the white chalk quarries and great cockchafers booming past them through the dusk.
Wash the silver in soda water, rub it with whiting, and polish it with a piece of dry buckskin. Embossed silver requires a stiff brush. Another way is to let the silver lay in chalk and water for an hour, then take it out, and wipe it dry on flannel; polish it with a piece of buckskin. Britannia Ware.
I have sometimes succeeded with this and other species, by the following method: to take up the roots from their native places of growth as early as they can be found, and then procure some chalk and sift it through a fine sieve, and also some good tenacious loam; mix both in equal quantities in water; a large garden-pot should then be filled with some rubble of chalk, about one third deep, and then the above compost over it, placing the roots in the centre, at the usual depth they grew before.
That he was a good portrait painter we may be assured by the examination of his own picture in the gallery of the Uffizi at Florence, painted in 1498, and that of his father, in the Pinacotheck at Munich; but earlier chalk drawings exist, showing his proficiency in this branch of art at the age of fourteen.
It means an end of war-making, the release of this turbulent spirit." Bedient turned to the light. She saw the red stain upon the breast of his coat. He glanced down, and felt in the inner pocket. "It's the red chalk," he said with a laugh. "It got crushed somehow, and it was oily. The forecastle melted it." ...Plainly at this moment they both heard the sound of a steamer's screw ahead.
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