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He says, "The deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, less countrified, do you find the inhabitants; for always the pioneer has been a traveller, and to some extent a man of the world; and, as the distances with which he is familiar are greater, so is his information more general and far-reaching."
And he had fancied himself, in countrified phrase, "respected by all," and had been proud of his standing. So the bellows began to sigh and pant once more, and kept the red light flaring athwart the darkness.
Floating lazily along was a round, prickly Globe-Fish, and close behind him drifted a cross looking Porcupine-Fish, an odd, countrified sort of creature, with his gaping mouth, the sharp spines on his ugly body raised in preparation for a possible attack from the strangers.
I was therefore deeply interested in what was going on in those countrified parlors of one of the richest and most powerful men in the world and this right in the heart of that district of New York where palaces stand in rows and in blocks, and where such few churches as there are resemble social clubs for snubbing climbers and patronizing the poor.
There was nothing countrified in her dress, which was frankly conventional; the short walking-skirt had as sharp a slant in front as her dinner-gown would have had, and he wore his knickerbockers it was then the now-faded hour of knickerbockers with an air of going out golfing in the suburbs.
Oxford is countrified enough, she said indifferently, moving down the broad grass-path which divided the garden into two equal portions. 'But I am leaving Oxford, at any rate for a year, he said quietly. 'I am going to London. Her delicate eyebrows went up. 'To London? Then, in a tone of mock meekness and sympathy, 'How you will dislike it! 'Dislike it why?
Is not that like nobody on earth but sweet, slow, obstinate, countrified Aunt Ann? of whom, thank heaven, I am not one bit ashamed, in spite of her Shaker bonnet. But I can't lose a day of this wonder, and fortunately dear Aunt Ann never dreams of tabooing my sight-seeing. When I proposed to come alone this morning, the dear soul said: "Well, I should hope thee could.
I had fancied when strapping my portmanteau that I should find my friend Oscar installed in one of those pretty, little, smart-looking houses, with green shutters and gilt lightning-conductor, dear to the countrified Parisian, and here I found myself amid an ideal blending of time-worn stones hidden in flowers, ancient gables, and fanciful ironwork reddened by rust.
Even if all these tall youths had not been in khaki, and the girls with them so pink and countrified, one would instantly have recognized the passive northern way of letting a holiday soak in instead of squeezing out its juices with feverish fingers. When we turned westward from St.
'I do not know any one elthe, exthept that Mr Howel Jenkinth, who, they thay, will be quite a grand man. 'I do not even know him. What do you think of his cousin, Mr Rowland Prothero? 'I never thought about him; mamma thayth he ith very handthome, but I am thure he is very gauche and countrified. 'Oh, I am sure he is not.
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