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Once I tried to take up the cushions and put them crossways, but I found them fixed, and the conductor grinned. "You can't do it now; they're fixed different," he said. So I grunted, and was twisted and racked and contorted. In the morning I knew well that I was no longer twenty-five.

'By night, said she, 'and cleverly found your way, and dined at The Three Ravens, and walked to The Crossways, and met no ghosts. 'On the contrary or at least I saw a couple. 'Tell me of them; we breed them here. We sell them periodically to the newspapers! 'Well, I started them in their natal locality. I saw them, going down the churchyard, and bellowed after them with all my lungs.

Her counsellor and friend was informed, in feminine style, that she had, requested him to call, for the purpose of consulting him with regard to a matter she had decided upon; and it was, the sale of The Crossways. She said that it would have gone to her heart once; she supposed she had lost her affection for the place, or had got the better of her superstitions.

Volscens cries aloud from his column: 'Stand, men! why on the march, or how are you in arms? or whither hold you your way? They offer nothing in reply, but quicken their flight into the forest, and throw themselves on the night. On this side and that the horsemen bar the familiar crossways, and encircle every outlet with sentinels.

Careful scraping of the surfaces must be chiefly relied on for exactness. As good a mode of proceeding as any is as follows after the first roughing into shape and then flat chiselling has been done to as great a nicety as possible, all the irregularities there are sure to be some can be worked down with the edge of a straight square file, used very steadily and crossways repeatedly.

We come across other threads that seem to run crossways, but that's because what we're trying to see is a whole piece of cloth, not just the threads. So far we don't know if the cloth is a whole suit or just a handkerchief." "The metaphor is a little obscure, but I get your meaning, and I agree." Dr. Miller drew to a stop in the driveway of his home.

Andrew Hedger, but there was no doing so. 'I'll show ye on to The Crossways House, the latter said, implying that he had already earned something by showing him The Crossways post. 'Hog's my feed, said Andrew Hedger. The gastric springs of eloquence moved him to discourse, and he unburdened himself between succulent pauses. 'They've killed him early. He 's fat; and he might ha' been fatter.

The trees are as thick as a canebrake, the avenues are lost in the dusk; there are lakes and canals almost hidden by the verdure of the banks; rustic bridges, the crossways of unfrequented bridle-paths, shady recesses; and over all a cool, refreshing shade in which one seems to breathe the air of virginal nature and to be far removed from the turmoil of the world.

The corporal and the abbé, leaving Rouen, had taken the road to Barentin, had dined at The Flowery Crossways Hotel, and, according to the chauffeur's statement, they would pass the night there: they would reach Dieppe next morning at the earliest possible moment. Juve hurried with the news to de Loubersac.

On this dais a table ran crossways, at which the lord and his family with their guests, ate, while a few steps lower, at a long table running lengthwise of the hall, sat the retainers. The hall was, also, the living-room for all within the walls of the castle. Sand was strewn on the stone floor and the dogs of the knights ate what was thrown to them, gnawing the bones at their leisure.

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