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'You can go in there and finish your work, we shall disturb you, said her father, pointing to the little empty room, and she meekly disappeared with the letter, the dictionary, and the piece of paper. 'Well, how's business, Twemlow? By the way, have a cigar.
"Yes." "I didn't know what that was. I thought it was a dictionary." The clerk shrieked with merriment. "The dictionary! Well, say, where have you been raised?" "On the range." "You mean cowboy?" "Yes; we don't need directories out there. Does that book tell where everybody lives?" "Well no, but most everybody shows up in it somewhere," replied the clerk quite soberly.
Bouvard and Pécuchet were delighted; and at their request M. Vaucorbeil lent them several volumes out of his library, declaring at the same time that they would not reach the end of them. They took note of the cases of childbirth, longevity, obesity, and extraordinary constipation given in the Dictionary of Medical Sciences.
The doctor, who had been afraid of some such attack, had left a marker in a medical dictionary which we had, at the page on which the symptoms were described, and had told us to turn up this passage, where we would find the measures of 'first aid' to be adopted. My mother sent Francoise to fetch the book, warning her not to let the marker drop out.
Observing that they were ignorant of the signification of a great number of French words, of constant use and recurrence, I made a selection from the vocabulary, and I set them to write down in little copy-books, words which were in most frequent use; but the explanations contained in the dictionary were not enough, and I was obliged to rack my brain for new and brief definitions which they could understand, and to make them transcribe these.
If Mannering wanted a particular book, the Dominie could bring it; if he wished to have accounts summed up, or checked, his assistance was equally ready; if he desired to recall a particular passage in the classics, he could have recourse to the Dominie as to a dictionary; and all the while, this walking statue was neither presuming when noticed, nor sulky when left to himself.
Alcide, enchanted with his own joke, drew out his notebook, and in it wrote the following memorandum, destined to figure in a forthcoming French and Russian dictionary: "Telga, a Russian carriage with four wheels, that is when it starts; with two wheels, when it arrives at its destination."
It ain't no use in getting riled, Bob, it ain't no use in workin' overtime on that college dictionary o' yours to set me crawlin' around among the spit boxes. Fac's is fac's.
Dr. Johnson at that time said, 'George will rejoice at the depeditation of Foote; and when I challenged that word, laughed, and owned he had made it, and added that he had not made above three or four in his Dictionary . Having conducted Dr. Johnson to our inn, I begged permission to leave him for a little, that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness.
Johnson had published his English Dictionary, and was asked by a lady how he chanced to make a certain mistake that she pointed out, he answered, "Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance." I always feel disposed to make the same comment on the assertion of any woman that she has all the rights she wants. For every woman is, or may be, or might have been, a mother.
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