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Updated: June 13, 2025
Well, I made up my mind, having tried violent exercise in the gymnasium, coupled with violent language in the steam room, and having found neither or both had been of the least avail in trimming down my proportions, but on the contrary had augmented them to the extent of nearly ten pounds, live weight, that I would let well enough alone.
It is purposely coupled in the photograph with that of Anak, the famous French giant, in order to exhibit the exact degree of its deficiency in that quality which giants most and ladies least can afford to be complaisant over size.
We do not address the unforgetting gods, but the popular stomach." Sir Willoughby was patient. He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol; and when he struck in he received correction from the paedagogue-instrument. If he thumped affirmative or negative, he was wrong.
Monk and Morrice had both been chosen members of the new Parliament, which was to meet on April 25th, and Morrice, who was in close touch with Monk, was vexed to find that all proposals for the restoration of the King were coupled with severe conditions, and were to be based upon acknowledgment of the binding force of the Covenant.
Coupled with the question of peaceable succession to the great office was that of the durability of popular government. Tremendous issues, upon which depended unfathomable consequences, pressed for settlement; and no tribunal was in existence for their determination.
There was hustling, and shouting, and wild running from one to the other end of the long train, to which the engine, a copper engine, glittering like a star, had just been coupled. Pierre was helping Marie into the carriage, when M. Vigneron, coming back at a gallop, shouted to him: "It'll be good to-morrow, it'll be good tomorrow!"
Cannot machinery, in the hands of self-respecting and well-paid artisans, do our cleaning, sewing, moving, and decorating? Cannot the training of children become an even greater profession than the attending of the sick? And cannot personal service and companionship be coupled with friendship and love where it belongs and whence it can never be divorced without degradation and pain?
Hobbs said she shouldn't wonder if he knocked my my head right off." "Knocked your head off! Who?" "Him." She raised her hand and pointed a shaking finger straight at Captain Shadrach. All three of her hearers were surprised, of course, but in the case of the Captain himself amazement was coupled with righteous indignation. "Wha-what?" he stammered. "Who said so? What kind of talk's that?
She looked up at him, her eyes filled with wonder over the way in which he had coupled his lot with hers. "Poor little girl!" he said with deep feeling. "You would be better off with the beasts. Come, let us hurry away from here!" They turned sharply away from the trail, and followed down behind a family who were almost out of sight around the hill.
There was a brief delay; then a locomotive crept out from a siding, coupled up to the standing car, and drew it off upon another track. Soon the "excursion party" was being rushed swiftly toward the coast, some twenty miles away. Major Ramos came down the aisle, laughing, and spoke to his American protege's. "Well, what do you think of that, eh?
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