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The two-ounce vial that held the swift dismissing pang was in the locked drawer of the writing-table beside the whisky-flask. When he was alone and undisturbed for Lynette seldom came to his consulting-room now Saxham would take it out and dandle it, and hold it in his hands.
I shall dandle a dozen of your young ones before these arms are withered. I shall live to see you a peer of the realm. That money with your talents, Mike, will command a dukedom." "I am not ambitious, father." "You lie you are, Mike. You have got your father's blood in you. You would risk a great deal to be at the top of the tree; so would I. Would I? Haven't I? We shall see, Mike we shall see.
He don’t want to tie himself up to no woman’s aprun strings. He rather dandle about after ’em all an’ say pretty things, an’ keep his earnin’s fer himself.” Hannah reached New York the week after David left for Washington.
It pleased him to see his old quarters, and his old fellow-guardsmen at Knightsbridge: he had begun to think of his bachelorhood with something like regret. The old troopers were glad to recognize their ancient officer and dandle the little colonel. Colonel Crawley found dining at mess and with his brother-officers very pleasant. "Hang it, I ain't clever enough for her I know it.
Bacon says: "Courts are but only superficial schools To dandle fools; The rural parts are turned into a den Of savage men; And where's the city, from foul vice so free, But may be termed the worst of all the three?" In this curious, primitive, rude, ensmalled age, grew up the great man who was to do so much to change it all.
'Dand! ye're the auld man yet; naething will make ye take warning till ye're brought hame some day wi' your feet foremost. 'Tut, lass! answered Dandle, 'ye ken yoursell I am never a prin the waur o' my rambles. So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in despatching his breakfast, as, 'the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely.
He was an old servant, who had been like a nurse to Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch, and at one time used to dandle him in his arms; he was a grave and severe man who was fond of listening to religious discourse and reading books of devotion. "Don't be uneasy, Alexey Yegorytch." "May God's blessing rest on you, sir, but only in your righteous undertakings."
And when the years have rolled away, and they are old and grey, and spent with wounds and toil, fit for nothing but to dandle little grand-babes on their knees, young men and maids will flock around, and pointing out the veteran to the curious stranger say, with honest pride, "He was with Towse the day he won the cross."
I never saw a prettier child." "I used to delight to pet it and dandle it and play with it." "So did I." "You named it. What WAS that name? I can't call it to mind." It appeared to me that the ice was getting pretty thin, here. I would have given something to know what the child's was.
The father hardly handles it during its first year, but many fathers nurse and dandle the older infants for hours together in the most affectionate manner; and, if the child's grandfather is living, he generally becomes its devoted attendant.
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