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Updated: June 11, 2025
Talbot could talk of the mere folly of love, and for its sake let his eldest son and heir become a mere exile and fugitive, cut off, it might be, from home. "For that matter, sir," said Richard, "my son is not one to loiter about, as the lubberly heir, cumbering the land at home.
"My presence is utterly needless, my good lord;-and, my best friend, Master Heriot," said the young nobleman, "I shall understand nothing the better for cumbering you with my ignorance in these matters; and can only say at the end, as I now say at the beginning, that I dare not take the helm out of the hand of the kind pilots who have already guided my course within sight of a fair and unhoped-for haven.
He drew two rough wooden chairs, that in some late merriment seemed to have been upset, and lay, cumbering the unwashed and carpetless floor, in a position exactly contrary to that destined them by their maker; he drew these chairs near a table strewed with drinking horns, half-emptied bottles, and a pack of cards.
"It's a solemn pledge provided I'm still cumbering the ground. And now, tell me, are you singing here this evening?" "I promised Mrs. Seymour. Would you be good enough to accompany?" "I should love it. What are you going to sing?" "Miss Craig and I proposed to give a duet." "And here comes Kitty to claim your promise, I guess."
It was odd how this sweet-faced blond woman, with blue eyes and a halo of fair hair and a gentle smile, contrived of course without meaning it to make one feel the meanest, shabbiest thing cumbering a beautiful world! "I wonder if I'm going to like men better than women?" she thought. "Ah, a parcel," repeated Aline daintily, as an incredibly neat maid answered the call of the beaded bell.
We don't aim to keep the unfit cumbering the earth! We don't care a hoot for these coolies; but what we do care for is this we Orientals refuse to be branded any longer as an inferior race.
The plebs, reduced to utter misery by the disaster, began to murmur that mysterious people had been seen hurrying through the different quarters, kindling the fire and cumbering the work of help; these incendiaries must have been sent by some one in power by whom?
When he rides in a motor-car instead of walking she atrophies the muscles of his legs, hangs a weight of fat around his middle, and labels him "out of the running." If he persists in eating and not physically exerting himself, she finally concludes that he is cumbering the earth, and she takes him off with Bright's or diabetes.
He could not read the signs of the times; and confounding the barrenness of death with the barrenness of winter, which might be followed by a new spring and summer, he believed that the old life- tree of Catholicism, which in fact was but cumbering the ground, might bloom again in its old beauty.
"But chivalry," I argued, "has surely been of service to mankind?" "To an immense extent," agreed the Philosopher. "It seized a natural human passion and turned it to good uses. Then it was a reality. So once was the divine right of kings, the infallibility of the Church, for cumbering the ground with the lifeless bodies of which mankind has paid somewhat dearly.
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