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Updated: May 4, 2025
The trees and grass-plats had begun to bud and sprout, the fountains plashed in the sunshine, the children of the quarter, both the dingier types from the south side, who played games that required much chalking of the paved walks, and much sprawling and crouching there, under the feet of passers, and the little curled and feathered people who drove their hoops under the eyes of French nursemaids all the infant population filled the vernal air with small sounds which had a crude, tender quality, like the leaves and the thin herbage.
Some of the people have already retired into their houses, after chalking in very big letters on their front doors, 'Please come into this house and cut the owner's throat for him, so that he may rest at peace, and have no fear of what may happen. Others have climbed on to their roofs, and occupy themselves there looking at the moon through spy-glasses, thinking that the conspirators are concealed in that luminary, and only waiting for a cloud to obscure it, in order to descend upon the city unobserved."
"Get up," she said, kicking him upon the side of the head; whereupon he rose, chalking up one more mark on his own particular slate of Life, upon one side of which was written Desire and the other Revenge. He stood six-foot-four in his loin-cloth, as black and glistening as a polished ebony statue.
She said this with an angry little shake of her right fist, adding: "Always running about and screeching, always playing and fighting, always skip skip skipping on the pavement, and chalking it for their games! Oh I know their tricks and their manners!" Shaking the little fist as before. "And that's not all.
When kings give, they do not use to give as poor men do. Now, God is a great King; let him give like a king; nay, let him give like himself, and do thou receive like thyself. He has all, and thou hast nothing. Thy fears that Christ will not receive thee, may arise from THINE OWN FOLLY IN INVETING, yea, in thy chalking out to God a way to bring thee home to Jesus Christ.
"Well, I quarrel with no man for chalking out the course he intends to pursue; but what do you mean to do with the prisoner below here?" "Kill him." "What?" "I say kill him. Do you not understand me?" "I do, indeed." "When everything else is secured, and when the whole of that which I so much court, and which I will have, is in my possession, I will take his life, or you shall.
And she was right, for if imagination could have carried her old companions to the study where Tom was then domiciled, they would have seen her chalking an immense red cross on her calendar against the date when Irene's letter had arrived, and mentally recording it as the proudest day of her life.
He takes mustard that is just like anybody else's mustard, and he goes about saying, shouting, singing, chalking on walls, writing inside people's books, putting it everywhere, 'Smith's Mustard is the Best. And behold it is the best!" "True," said my uncle, chubbily and with a dreamy sense of mysticism; "true!"
In order to facilitate the scoring they have a very good plan at the Military Tournament of chalking the competitors' sticks.
"He has, sir, but he seems to be of opinion that his responsibility is at an end because a surveyor from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board had previously visited her, and directed that she should not be loaded deeper than twenty-one feet chalking on the side amidships the six feet six inches clear beneath which she is not to be allowed to sink."
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