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Monna Vittoria answered me very swiftly and decidedly. "Messer Simone has a little mind in his big body, and little minds cling to trifles. But it is not the matter of the rose alone that chokes him, but chiefly the matter of the poems." I stared at Monna Vittoria with round eyes of wonder. "What poems?" I asked; for, indeed, I did not understand her drift.
I was sore enough about it at first to throw the money and all that went with it to the pigs, and blow out of here. But that was before I saw you." "Oh!" said Joan, in her pettish, discounting way. "I mean every word of it, Joan. I can't talk like like some men my heart gets in the way, I guess, and chokes me off. But I never saw a girl that I ever lost sleep over till I saw you."
And now, father, let us discuss your affairs." It was Saturday night in the village of Lake Megantic. The work of the week is done. There is a brief respite from labor which, severe and unremitting, dulls the mind and chokes the fountains of geniality and wit. The young men, indeed, there was a sprinkling of grey hairs, too, had gathered in the one hotel the village boasts of.
Since the telephone receiver chokes off the oscillations, a small condenser can be shunted around it so that a complete closed oscillation circuit is formed and this gives better results.
She's fifty-three grey hair smooth back, you know, and a kind of look of anxious mamma. And it gets into her eyes and chokes her, poor dear; but blow her if she won't be as Bohemian as anybody. I've seen her smoke in a bonnet with strings tied under her chin. I got up and went away."
The water from its prolonged agitation is beaten not into mere creaming foam but into masses of accumulated yeast which hang in ropes and wreaths from wave to wave, and where one curls over to break, form a festoon like a drapery from its edge; these are taken up by the wind, not in dissipating dust, but bodily, in writhing, hanging, coiling masses, which make the air white and thick as with snow, only the flakes are a foot or two long each; the surges themselves are full of foam in their very bodies, underneath, making them white all through, as the water is under a great cataract; and their masses, being thus half water and half air, are torn to pieces by the wind whenever they rise, and carried away in roaring smoke, which chokes and strangles like actual water.
He says he intends to spend the evening in bed, reading Schopenhauer. I hope it chokes him." "But this is splendid! This lets you out." "What do you mean? Lets me out?" "Why, now you won't be able to appear. Oh, you will be thankful for this in years to come." "Won't I appear! Won't I dashed well appear! Do you think I'm going to disappoint that dear girl when she is relying on me?
"Say, rather, lady," added the soldier, most earnestly, "that you are pure, beautiful, and good at heart, but that pride, that only alloy of thy most lovely character, chokes its growth in your bosom." "Sir!" "Well, Senorita Isabella." "Enough of this," she said, hastily and much excited. "I must leave you now, captain.
I hope, your reverence, I shall never have to tell this story again, for it chokes me every time." And the man was unable to go on for a while. "Well, sir, the poor thing it seems didn't cry out as he had about the gas, he took it quite quiet that might have let them know, but some folk can see nothing till it is too late and he gave Hodges his hand to show he bore him no malice. Eh dear! eh dear!
Up I gets and bows polite and pleasant as a toff "Arternoon," I says, "I'm glad your boots are going stronger; Only thing I'm dreading is your feet 'ull both come off." Tick, tack, tick, tack, she didn't stop to answer, "Arternoon," she says, and sort o' chokes a little cough, "I must get to Piddinghoe tomorrow if I can, sir!" "Demme, my good woman! Haw!
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