Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
She took me into the bed to make me promise that, and syne she died." "Does your father drina?" "He hauds mair than ony other man in Thrums," Micah replied, almost proudly. "And he strikes you?" Babbie asked, compassionately. "That's a lie," retorted the boy, fiercely. "Leastwise, he doesna strike me except when he's mortal, and syne I can jouk him." "What are you doing there?" "I'm wishing.
I suppose that even a mother had better practise an artistic absence occasionally. Are they not sweet? What do you think of them? You never before saw the three youngest; you saw Drina when you went east and Billy was a few months old what do you think of them? Honestly, Phil?" "All to the good, Ninette; very ornamental. Drina and that Josephine kid are real beauties.
Afterward, when the children had been excused, and Drina had pulled her chair close to Lansing's to listen and after that, on the veranda, when the men sat smoking and Drina was talking French, and Nina and Eileen had gone off with baskets, trowels, and pruning-shears Selwyn still continued in conference with Boots and Gerald; and it was plain that his concise, modest explanation of what he had accomplished in his experiments with Chaosite seriously impressed the other men.
But no echo of these conflicts and forebodings reached the little Drina for so she was called in the family circle as she played with her dolls, or scampered down the passages, or rode on the donkey her uncle York had given her along the avenues of Kensington Gardens The fair-haired, blue-eyed child was idolised by her nurses, and her mother's ladies, and her sister Feodora; and for a few years there was danger, in spite of her mother's strictness, of her being spoilt.
And, by the way, Drina, are there any maids or nurses or servants in this remarkable house who occasionally wear copper-tinted hair and black fox furs?" "No. Eileen does. Won't you please wriggle " "Who is Eileen?" "Eileen? Why don't you know who Eileen is?" "No, I don't," began Captain Selwyn, when a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs.
"Why, yes; Great Zwornik is on the Bosniac side of the Drina; but Little Zwornik on the Servian side is also held by Moslems. Not long ago the men of Little Zwornik wished to extend their domain; but I planted six hundred men in a wood, and then rode down alone and warned them off.
Two days later, early in the morning, two Austrian aeroplanes whirred over the River Save and circled over Krupani, Shaoatz and Valievo. The last doubts were then dispelled; the attack was coming from the east. And finally, on August 12, 1914, the message flashed over the wires that the outposts had seen boats in movement, full of soldiers, behind an island on the Drina, opposite Loznitza.
"Heavens!" exclaimed Nina, "the blue-stocking and the fogy! and yours are pale blue, Eileen! you're about as self-conscious as Drina slumping there with your hair tumbling
As I repeated and prolonged my gaze, I felt that I had seen no eyes in Belgrade like those of the beauty of the Drina, who reminded me of the highest characteristic of expression "a spirit scarcely disguised enough in the flesh."
"You big red-pepper box," he muttered affectionately, "you'll wake up Drina. Look at her in her cunning pajamas! Oh, but she is a darling, Austin. And look at that boy with his two white bears! He's a corker! He's a wonder honestly, Austin.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking