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These two, so full of strong and bitter pride they would never meet again if they separated now. Perhaps fate had assigned the rôle of peacemaker to her, and she had this weapon in her hand to enforce it or bring it about the father's solemn promise to grant whatever she might ask. And she could dodder between Denny and Cunningham!
We are beginning to see that perfection and individuality are not incompatible, one is divine, and the other human. And isn't it by his very individuality that we are able to recognize Jesus to-day?" "You have evidently thought and read a great deal," Dodder said, genuinely surprised. "Why didn't you come to me earlier?" Eleanor bit her lip. He smiled a little.
I have actually known men to hesitate, to ponder, to dodder for weeks, nay, months over the purchase of a book; not because they did not want it, nor because they deemed the price exorbitant, nor yet because they were not abundantly able to pay that price.
DODDER. The whole plant gathered green is to be boiled in water with a little ginger and allspice, and this decoction operates as a cathartic; it also opens obstructions of the liver, and is good in the jaundice and many other disorders arising from the like cause. Hill's Herbal. CYNOGLOSSUM officinale. HOUNDS-TONGUE. The Root.
In the street also she found that many people looked at them, but, listening to his constant and easy speech, she could not give these people the attention they deserved. When they did not go to the Park they sought the most reserved streets or walked out to the confines of the town and up by the River Dodder.
Other cultures are often sorely tried by the dodder, and what is peculiar is that there are almost always species that are special to such or such a plant, so that the botanist usually knows beforehand how to determine the parasite whose presence is made known to him. On account of this, botanists call this species Cuscuta epilinum.
From everything in the least indelicate her finebred nature instinctively recoiled. She loathed that sort of person, the fallen women off the accommodation walk beside the Dodder that went with the soldiers and coarse men with no respect for a girl's honour, degrading the sex and being taken up to the police station. No, no: not that.
Wale, ma'am; but ma father was off times down thar cuttin' peat." "Ah, then ye'll not a kenned farmer Dykes that lived by the Lin-tree Scaur. 'Tweer I that laid him out, poor aad fellow, and a dow man he was when aught went cross wi' him; and he cursed and sweared, twad gar ye dodder to hear him.
The whole place seemed redolent of evil the motionless glossy slugs, the deadly parasite with its curiously obscene flowers, the littered undergrowth rotting in the water, all these filled Ishmael with a suffocating sense of doom. He stayed at gaze, yet longing to get away from this steamy place, where the gorse had gone grey beneath the false embraces of the dodder.
"Oh, I wish I could mash him!" muttered Ham Spink, between his set teeth. "Yes, and mash the whole crowd of 'em," added Dodder. "I hate the very sight of 'em!" "Do you know that they are talking about camping out again?" "What, this winter?" "Yes." "Where?" "That I don't know." "I'd like to spoil the trip for them." "So would I. Maybe we can do it too, if we watch our chances."
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