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Updated: June 27, 2025
As they formed into ranks, each man dropping silently into his place, Sir Nigel ran a questioning eye over them, and a smile of pleasure played over his face. Tall and sinewy, and brown, clear-eyed, hard-featured, with the stern and prompt bearing of experienced soldiers, it would be hard indeed for a leader to seek for a choicer following.
"Or woman," put in Lennon, no longer smiling. "Choicer still. But a man will do. How about that hole in your hat? Hadn't you better catch the first train East, and keep going?" Lennon flushed, rallied himself, and smiled. "I didn't come to Arizona for my health. I might say it was on business, but I've no objection to a bit of sport on the side."
A pleasant day of landscape-gardening was devoted to clearing gaps to let in the lovely views from the station; and a piece of ground was dug and planted with pine-apples, vines, oranges, and cotton, also a choicer species of banana than the indigenous one.
"The question of authority in the religious life, however, is more specific than this, and is not to be met by an admission of the general respect due to the human past and its choicer spirits, and our dependence thereon for the fostering of instinctive impulses, direction, and the confirmation of our experience.
This dry, almost mathematical style, was no necessity with him; few men, surely, have had at command a richer vocabulary, English and foreign, than Percival; few could have adorned thought with more or choicer garlands from the fields of knowledge and imagination. To letter-writing he had a great aversion. I have never seen a letter or note from him to which his signature was attached.
Except in the bottoms, where the planters themselves did most of the pioneering, the choicer lands of the whole district were entered by a pellmell throng of great planters, lesser planters and small farmers, with the farmers usually a little in the lead and the planters ready to buy them out of specially rich lands.
Visions immediately arose of all sorts of things that would now be within the scope of their means choicer meals for William, aprons and caps for Mary, new curtains and much else new and delightful to beautify the home. Little excursions too a regular seaside holiday during leave-time! Messrs.
Perhaps it would not be regarded as modern to-day; perhaps effete souls would disdain its honest tin tub, smeared with a paint that peeled instantly; but it was elegance and the Hesperides compared with the sponge and two lard-pails of hot water from the Ericson kitchen reservoir, which had for years been his conception of luxurious means of bathing. Also, there were choicer spirits in the house.
I'm sure I never wish to see a choicer half-dozen of hams than he's got there in his chimley; and the cider I tasted was a very pretty drop, indeed; none could desire a prettier cider." "They be for the love and the stalled ox both. Ah, the greedy martels!" said grandfather James. "Well, may-be they be.
Why is he not as brave as the bird? Are there any choicer, more exquisite words in which to say it? They come to a little stream. "Oh, just down here is Kissing Bridge," she says, with a kind of girlish gleefulness. She had made her father tell the old Dutch story one evening, when they were all sitting on the stoop.
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