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He could not by any means get servants to suit him, and he had a tyrannical old godmother, whose name was Tape. She was a Fairy, this Tape, and was a bright red all over. She was disgustingly prim and formal, and could never bend herself a hair's breadth this way or that way, out of her naturally crooked shape. But, she was very potent in her wicked art.
She let a little cry escape as she spoke, and Satin, who was stuffing herself with boiled fowl, lifted up her head and whispered: "Oh yes! I know her. A smart lot, eh? They do just fight for her." Nana pouted disgustingly. She could not understand the thing as yet.
She's really far too clever to be as silly as she sometimes is I can't quite understand her. Perhaps she does it to please her mother." "Jean's disgustingly fond of finding out the best in people," Pamela objected. "Priorsford is a most charming town," said Mr. Elliot, "but I never find its inhabitants interesting." "No," Jean said, "but you don't try, do you?
The soldiers, delighted at the change of fortune, slept in the Boer tents or would have done had these not been disgustingly foul and stinking. From the captured ridge we could look right down into Ladysmith, and at the first opportunity I climbed up to see it for myself.
Poor Brumpton's face changed as he turned to go, but before he had gone far the colonel cried: "Stop! There, go on with your duty, sir. Poor fellow," he muttered, "I can't be hard upon him. But he is so disgustingly fat; eh, Lacey?" "Yes, he is fat," said the lieutenant, thoughtfully. "Poor beggar! it would be rough upon him on service if we had to run. I mean retreat, sir!"
"Salaam, salaam," repeated he again, bowing down to the ground, tongue out, and placing his hat at our feet in a disgustingly servile manner. "Let us talk like friends." The Magbun's men, no braver than their master, shifted about in a casual manner, so as to be behind their superior officers in case of our firing. On second thought, feeling that they were not safe even so screened, they got up.
Is there any piece of water more unreasonably, distressingly, disgustingly rough and perverse than the British Channel? Yes: there is one, and but one the Bay of Biscay. And as the latter succeeds the former, without a pause between, and the head-winds never ceased, and the rain continually poured, I leave you to draw the climax of my misery.
Celebrated by Arab poets, these oases were never really the forecourts of paradise. Their lakes are swamps for the greater part; from their underground sources flow waters which are warm, sometimes of evil odor, and disgustingly brackish; their vegetation could not compare with the Egyptian.
La Branche, wounding him slightly in the hand, and leaving one or two of the conscript fathers, standing near, in doubt whether they were shot or no, so disgustingly close was the whiz of the passing lead. Dined with Messrs. T n, where the affray of the morning was duly discussed; some of the parties present alleging that the quarrel arose from political, others from personal motives.
Barberry said; "I took a dinner-party of five girls and five subalterns from the Fort, and I said, 'Never again! Fortunately the girls were just out, and not one of them understood, but those poor boys didn't know where to look! And no more did I. So disgustingly real."
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