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"Make it fifty," cried the master of the new ship, amid the cheers of his guests. "But," he added, "don't think I'm going to race you. I'm just going to dodder along as usual." We got underway first, and were just passing out between Sydney Heads under easy sail, when the brigantine overtook us, and passed us like a race-horse galloping past a trotting donkey.
"Yes," replied Eleanor, with an unconscious shade of defiance, "people want to know, Mr. Dodder, they want to know the truth. And if you consider the preponderance of the evidence of the Gospels themselves my brother-in-law says you will find that the miraculous birth has very little to stand on.
"Carnivorous plants, perhaps, as the fly-trap and the bog sundew." "And why not the humbler cuscuta, the dodder, the cuttlefish of the vegetable kingdom, which shoots out the antennæ of its stems as fine as thread, attaching itself to other plants by tiny suckers and feeding greedily on their juices?" asked the Abbé Gévresin.
He was paddling me up the sun-lit reaches of the Shataca on Black Creek when suddenly two dusky mallards or black ducks tore out of the willow herb and dodder and came like the wind over our heads. I was using a high- powered duck gun, and brought down both ducks, one, however, with a broken wing.
"Foolish of them," Weldon commented. "Still, 'If we could choose the time, and choose aright, 'T were best to die, our honor at the height. I learned that when I was a small boy; but I've only just found out what it means." With scoffing lips, but eyes full of unspoken love, Carew turned on his friend. "Don't dodder, Weldon," he counselled him.
Indeed, so deep is the dodder's degradation that if it cannot find a stem of flax, or hop, or other plant whereon to climb and thrive, it will simply shrivel and die rather than resume habits of industry so long renounced as to be at last forgotten. Like the lowly dodder the mistletoe is a climber that has discovered large opportunities of theft in ascending the stem of a supporting plant.
The rose-mallow flaunts along Fifth Avenue and the golden threads of the dodder embroider the house fronts on the principal cross streets; and I might think at times that it was all mere fancy, it has so much the quality of a pleasing illusion. Yet Mrs. Creevey's book is not one to lend itself to such a deceit by any of the ordinary arts.
Yellow stars of biting stone-crop covered the walls of the ruin; the fruit of the blackthorn was growing purple, of the hawthorn, red; the lesser dodder crept, like pink lacework, over furze and heather; bright-eyed euphrasy and sweet wild thyme were murmured over by many bees; at the altar's foot grew brake fern and towering foxgloves; while upon the sacred stone itself brambles laid their fruit, a few ripe blackberries shining from clusters of red and green.
"Yes," replied Eleanor, with an unconscious shade of defiance, "people want to know, Mr. Dodder, they want to know the truth. And if you consider the preponderance of the evidence of the Gospels themselves my brother-in-law says you will find that the miraculous birth has very little to stand on.
"He seems to have slept the sleep of the just on a cup of tea at midnight through the rise and fall of cabinets. So I'm trying the receipt." "Does that mean that you are hankering after politics?" "Heavens! When you come to doddering, Jacob, it's better to dodder in the paths you know. I salute Mr. G.'s physique, that's all. Well, now, Jacob, do you know anything about this Warkworth?"
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