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Donors liked to give expensive buildings without endowment for upkeep, liked to give vast athletic fields, rejoiced in stadiums, affected memorial statuary and stained glass windows, dabbled in landscape gardening, but seldom were known either to give anything unconditionally or, specifically, to destine a gift for such uninspiring needs as more books or professors' pay.
So he dabbled a little in magnetism and so forth, and stumbled upon the principle of the cube. But he had no mechanical ability, and was on the point of giving up the scheme when he met Smith.
She encircles it with the strong arm of her tides; with the might of her waters she makes it once more a thing of the sea. The tide was rising now. The fringe of the downs had dabbled in the shoals till they became one. We had left behind the last of the shepherd lads, come out to the edge of the land to search for a wandering kid. We were all at once plunging into high water.
Sören's worst enemy, however, dwelt within him. In his youth he had dabbled in philosophy, and this baneful passion for thinking would now attack him from time to time, crushing all resistance, and, in the end, turning everything topsy-turvy. It was when he thought about his children that this befell him.
I don't suppose it would mean much to you. I can't remember it exactly, but it starts like this: I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, The red-ribbed ledges drip with a silent horror of blood ... I can't remember any more..." "But why should that appeal to you?" she asked, disappointed. "I don't know.
It was a proof, however, of the degree to which his own initiative had failed him that he cowered before her judgment, with little or no protest. "I haven't said I'd take it positively." "Naturally. Of course you haven't." He dabbled the spoon uneasily in his tea, looking downcast. "I don't quite see that," he objected, trying to rally his pluck, "why it should be naturally." "Oh, don't you?
Some of them were great figures in literature and philosophy, and strong enough to shake aside the silliness of sensibility; but others, while they professed to be great as writers or philosophers, are now remembered only because their devotion to sensibility made them conspicuous in their own time. They dabbled in one thing and another; they "cribbed" from every popular writer of the day.
He happened to know that although his brother-in-law was doing fairly well he was not making a fortune, and suspected that he dabbled in stocks.
I advanced. "Mr. Griggs," cried Hawkins' wife, in terror that was not all feigned, "don't suggest it!" "Now, my dear " began Hawkins, stiffening at once. "Hush, Herbert, hush! You've made mischief enough with your inventions, but you have never, thank goodness, dabbled in explosives." "If I wanted to tell you what I know about explosives, and what I could do " declaimed Hawkins.
On the hearth were two or three long and thick tresses of grey human hair, also dabbled in blood, and seeming to have been pulled out by the roots. Upon the floor were found four Napoleons, an ear-ring of topaz, three large silver spoons, three smaller of métal d'Alger, and two bags, containing nearly four thousand francs in gold.
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