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Glass lustres have acquired an antiquarian value, and chandeliers and mantelpiece lustre candlesticks are sought after by the collector, who sometimes finds interspersed with cut glass lustre pretty coloured china droppers. Pictorial Art in Glass. Stained-glass windows are associated with ecclesiastical edifices.
But with all this, it is no home. It is the house of the man that is infested with many visiters. May we be branded for the veriest churl, if we deny our heart to the many noble-hearted friends that at times exchange their dwelling for our poor roof! It is not of guests that we complain, but of endless, purposeless visitants; droppers in, as they are called.
Her steaming radius is about 50,000 miles, depending upon the speed. She carries twelve 16-inch guns, twenty-two 6-inch guns, sixteen 4-inch anti-aircraft guns, eight 3-pounders, four rapid-fire guns, six aerial torpedo tubes, and six bomb droppers, which can simultaneously discharge tons of explosives. She has a complement of 1400 officers and men.
He crawled forward a little and then stopped and hunched himself up into a ball-like mass. Taking the plant, dropped on the ground by one of the plant droppers, he made a hole in the soft ground with a small three-cornered hoe, and with his hands packed the earth about the plant roots. Then he crawled on again.
She has been here before, and you know it. I've a good mind to have you held for being in charge of this place. If I do, all the Marie Margots and Ike the Droppers can't get you out again." The negress seemed to understand that this was no ordinary raid. "Who is she?" demanded Craig. "I dunno, sah. She come from next door." "I know she did. She's the girl in the office of the Montmartre.
One of the woman plant droppers screamed and ran away across the field, and the others ran crying at her heels. "Don't do it. Go away," the older of the French boys shouted, and then he with his brothers also ran. Hearing the voices Hugh stopped and stared about. The field was empty. Again he lost himself in his mechanical calculations.
'Sithee! hoo's getten her yers pierced, said a loudly-dressed girl, a weaver at the factory in the vale. 'Yi; an' hoo wears droppers an' o', replied the friend whom she addressed. 'Ey! haa hoo does pinch, critically remarked Libby Eastwood, the dressmaker of the village.
What he had to say proved inconsequent enough, an irrelevant suggestion concerning the training of field-dogs for close covert work and the reasons for not breaking such dogs on quail. Then the question of cross-breeding came up, and he gave his opinion on the qualities of "droppers."
'Happy thought, cried Bessie; 'I'll sound the dear creature as to her views on the subject this very day. Aunt Betsy was all goodness, and offered to accommodate half a dozen young ladies of neat and cleanly habits. She protested that she would have no candle-grease droppers or door-mat despisers in her house. 'The Homestead is the only toy I have, she said, and I won't have it ill-used.
When such visitations occurred out of school hours, and I remained up in my room, as I frequently did at first, the droppers in felt very much aggrieved, as though I had wittingly offended the instincts of good society. Besides all which, seldom an evening passed that the young people did not come to the Ark en masse to sing. They knew no other songs.
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