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Besides, whatever he did, he was always thinking most about beating somebody else. But Prosper eared most for doing the thing as well as he could. If any one else could beat him well, what difference did it make? He would do better the next time. If he had a log to chop, he looked it all over for a clear place before he began.
EARED GREBE. Podiceps nigricollis, Sundeval. French, "Grèbe oreillard." The Eared Grebe is an occasional autumnal visitant to the Islands, remaining on till the winter; it is never very numerous; in some years, however, it appears to visit the Islands in greater numbers than in others, as Mr.
"You are thinking, if I left you these false seals, you could give me the contents of the despatches, provided you were well paid. Is it not so?" "It was," replied Vanslyperken, who had immediately been struck with such a new source of wealth; for he eared little what he did all he cared for was discovery.
The value of a "liberty" was that through its enjoyment you were not as other men; the barons would have eared little for liberties which they had to share with the common herd. To them liberty meant privilege and monopoly; it was not a general right to be enjoyed in common.
Bolster gi' me the gun an' cartridge-box; I done found the canteen in the road, an' the poke with the letters in hit the Yank had done laid down beside him when he stopped t' git a drink, an' me an' Jim crep' up on him an' ordered him to surrender. He jumped an' run, an' we wuz af eared to shoot least we bring the rest o' the Yanks down onto us."
And it rained, it rained. Wet and weary, they had no choice but to return to the inn. Elgar's animation had given place to fretfulness; Mallard, after his miserable night, eared little to converse, and would gladly have been alone. A midday meal, with liberal supply of wine, helped them somewhat, and they sat down to smoke in their bedroom.
That a living beast could ever be other than palpably bestial pawed, toothed, shagged, and eared as such, was to him incredible; far more that a human presence could be transformed from its god-like aspect, upright, free-handed, with brows, and speech, and laughter.
Without iron the commonalty be not sure against enemies, without dread of iron the common right is not governed; with iron innocent men are defended: and fool-hardiness of wicked men is chastised with dread of iron. And well nigh no handiwork is wrought without iron: no field is eared without iron, neither tilling craft used, nor building builded without iron.
With Beatrice the tone did not injure him in the least, partly because she did not take it altogether seriously, yet more owing to the habit of mind whereby women in general subordinate principle to the practical welfare of the individual. If Wilfrid found a sphere for the display of his talents, Beatrice eared nothing to dwell upon abstract points.
Phasianus Wallichii. Pheasant, polygamous; and black grouse, hybrids of; production of hybrids with the common fowl; immature plumage of the. Pheasant, Amherst, display of. Pheasant, Argus, display of plumage by the male; ocellated spots of the; gradation of characters in the. Pheasant, Blood- Pheasant, Cheer. Pheasant, Eared, length of the tail in the; sexes alike in the.
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