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A strong reserve in close column behind the wing to be guarded from assault seems better to fulfill the required condition than the crotchet; but the nature of the ground must always decide in the choice between the two methods.
Graves may not care a tinker's dam for politics, but evidently he does get queasy when another man's ideas are misappropriated. Perhaps that's his crotchet. Writes himself, doesn't he?" "Some rubbish or other," returned Shelby, contemptuously. "That's where he is susceptible, to my thinking. I don't cotton to your woman theory. I say leave women out of politics.
"Yes, madam; the summer parlor does not delay the sunset." "Come again. When do you leave Belem?" "In few days." Desmond made a grimace, and went to the window. "Who returns with you," she continued, "Ben? He likes piloting." "I hope he will; I came here to please him." "Pooh! You came here because Mr. Somers had a crotchet." "Well; I was permitted somehow to come." "It was perfectly right.
I cannot conceive anything more irreverent than the American fashion of burying in unconsecrated earth, each family having its own place of interment in the corner of its own garden: unless it be the crotchet of the silly old peer, who spent the last years of his life in erecting near his castle-door, a preposterous building, the progress of which he watched day by day with the interest of a man who had worn out all other interest, occasionally lying down in the stone coffin which he had caused to be prepared, to make sure that it would fit him.
I've seen him prowling about the grounds: and the night of the marriage he was mounted up at the chapel window. Lord Hartledon saw him, too. I should like to know what he wants." "By a half-word he let drop, I fancy he has a crotchet in his head that his lordship will find him some work when he comes home. But I must go on my way," added Mirrable. "Mrs.
The conduct of the amour between Lady Fulbank and Gayman, founded as it is on Shirley's The Lady of Pleasure, has nothing in common with Otway's intrigue between Beaugard and Portia The Atheist which owes itself to Scarron's novel, The Invisible Mistress. p. 222 the Gad-Bee's in his Quonundrum. Gad-Bee, vide supra. Quonundrum or Conundrum. A whim; crotchet; maggot; conceit.
She kissed it when she looked at it now, and placed it very near the crotchet edging in her regard. But it would take a much longer space than this story can afford to recount all the presents that came to Beatrice Meadowsweet. From the Bertram connection the gifts were of money value, from the Northbury people they were rich with something better than money.
Presently Norton came to see if she wanted anything, and then Esther joined them, and the talk was of the witch again. "We are going to see her now," said Norton. "Just as soon as we have done with the table." "What's it all for?" inquired Esther. "I don't know," said Norton, shaking his head. "Some crotchet of somebody's. I don't know anything about it.
As for Trencher, the one crotchet in his cool brain centred about that worthless trade dollar. With it in his possession he had counted himself a winner, always. Without it he felt himself to be a creature predestined and foreordained to disaster. To it he gave all the credit for the fact that he had never served a prison sentence.
That charming M. M., I fear, will never compass this clarity of vision, this perfect de-spiritualization and contempt of illusions. He will never remain curious, to his dying day, in things terrestrial and in nothing else. Not one of these earthquake-specialists, in fact, but has his Achilles heel: a mental crotchet or physical imperfection to mar the worldly perspective.
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