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The schoolmaster was one of the first to come solemnly along the deck under an umbrella. He had avoided Marcella rather pointedly lately, but he came and talked quite affably for a while, didactically contrasting Melbourne with Naples and Colombo.
Miss Kinnaird watched the swimmer's progress with open appreciation. "Dancing," she said didactically, "isn't to be compared with that! It's the essence of rhythmic movement! I must certainly study swimming. I wish he'd come right on."
"At least," Reggie insisted, "will you tell me this: Where have they been staying in London? I shall go there and see whether they have left any address for letters to be forwarded." "I shall tell you nothing," I decided. "As a matter of fact I am finding you rather a nuisance." Reggie picked up his hat. "There is something more in this," he said didactically, "than meets the eye!"
"How's that?" asked the Banner man, speaking for the others' evident interest. "We have no means of surmising the method by which this man succeeds in arresting vibratory motions of certain wave-lengths," said Eldridge didactically, "any more than we are able to define the precise nature of electricity. But, as in the case of electricity, we can observe the action of its phenomena.
Perhaps for strength both of subject and of treatment, Christina Rossetti’s masterpiece is ‘Amor Mundi.’ Here we get a lesson of human life expressed, not didactically, but in a concrete form of unsurpassable strength, harmony, and concision.
Here shall follow didactically the cause why the good ship Samarang is not by this time in the Docks. 'Idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. "The sails were hanging loosely in the shrouds: every one set, from sky-scraper to stud-sail, in hopes to catch a breath of wind.
"That's all very well," I said; "but Reggie will be on your track." Mr. Parker beamed on Eve and me. "We shall see!" he declared didactically. The next morning at twelve o'clock I took a taxi-cab round to Banton Street. The hall porter, who was beginning to know me well, seemed a little surprised at my appearance. "Is the young lady upstairs?" I asked. He was distinctly taken aback. "Mr.
"A city," stated Percy didactically, "is like a mollusk; it depends largely for its life and health on the artificial shell it has constructed. Unless I am very much mistaken, this particular mollusk is going to get a chance to try life without its shell." "I don't understand you," said Helen. "You will," said Percy Darrow. Mr. and Mrs. Warford descended soon after.
'And is your master married? she asked. 'No. The master is young and unmarried, because noble gentlemen can never marry young, said Vanyusha didactically. 'A likely thing! See what a fed-up buffalo he is and too young to marry! Is he the chief of you all? she asked. 'My master is a cadet; that means he's not yet an officer, but he's more important than a general he's an important man!
"Well, if you mean business," said Ajax didactically, "if nothing we can say or do will divert your mind from courtship and matrimony if, my dear Jasperson, you are prepared to exchange the pleasant places, the sunny slopes, and breezy freedom of bachelor life for the thorny path that leads to the altar, and thence to er the cradle, if, in short, you are determined to own a best girl, why, then the first and obvious thing to do is to let her know discreetly that you're in love with her."
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