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Updated: May 12, 2025
You are to him simply a clothes-peg and your merit is in exact ratio to the clothes you carry. The bootmaker looks at your boots and takes your intellectual, social and financial measurement from their quality and condition. If you are down-at-the-heel, the glossy condition of your hat will not alter his opinion about you. The hat does not come in his range of vision.
Go fer carrots an' cabbages, specially carrots, whispered the commandant, whose experience of goats was large and varied, and taught him that the average nanny or billy would desert home and kindred and go through fire and water in pursuit of a succulent young carrot not larger than a clothes-peg.
Now, fine drapery, really well drawn, as it hangs from a clothes-peg, is always rather impressive, especially if it be disposed in large breadths and deep folds; but that is the only grace of their figures. Secondly. Look at the Madonna, carefully. You will find she is not the least meek only stupid, as all the other women in the picture are. "St.
He waited for what seemed a long time, and then the board creaked again. "Did you see him?" he inquired. "I did," was the sharp reply. "You both ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You ought to be punished." "There is a clothes-peg sticking into the back of my head," remarked Mr. Travers. "What are you going to do?" There was no reply. "What are you going to do?" repeated Mr.
Sol: Peruvian silver dollar, worth about two shillings or a little less than half a gold dollar. Sorocho: Mountain-sickness. Stone-peg: A roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into the walls of a house and projecting 10 or 12 inches on the inside so as to permit of its being used as a clothes-peg.
Observing a soothsayer one day officiating for pay, he said: 'I cannot see how you can ask pay. If it is because you can change the course of Fate, you cannot possibly put the figure high enough: if everything is settled by Heaven, and not by you, what is the good of your soothsaying? A hale old Roman once gave him a little exhibition of his skill in fence, taking a clothes-peg for his mark.
Ellen herself opened the door to him, her skirts pinned up around her, and a clothes-peg in her mouth. He greeted her with an effort at pleasantness. "Good morning, Ellen," he said. "I am glad to find you at home. May I come in?" Ellen removed the clothes-peg from her mouth. "It's your own house, isn't it?" she replied, with a suspicious little quiver in her tone.
The furniture had been greatly disordered perhaps by some inquisitive rat but a coat upon a clothes-peg on the door, a razor and some dirty scraps of paper, and a piece of soap that had hardened through years of disuse into a horny cube, were redolent of Skinner's distinctive personality.
You see, cousins and curates are regarded as "harmless" "detrimentals with the chill off," so to speak. His scrap of relationship throws a glimmer of possession around the one, endowing with inherent right every act of his ministry; while his "cloth" invests the other with a halo of sanctity and Platonic freedom that disarms gossip of the usual clothes-peg whereon it hangs its scandal.
Now upon a morning in February it happened that I was smoking a cigarette in the little garden, bordered by hedges of box, while waiting for my car, and as I waited I watched Jeanne, with her sleeves rolled up to her elbows and a clothes-peg in her mouth, busy over the wash-tub. "Vous êtes une blanchisseuse, aujourd'hui?" I remarked. She corrected me. "Non, m'sieu', une lessiveuse."
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