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Updated: June 23, 2025
Red-collared lorikeets revel in the nectar, hustling the noisy honey-eaters and the querulous sun-birds. The radiant blue butterfly sips and is gone, or if it be his intent to pause, tightly folds his wings on the instant of settling, and is transformed from a piece of living jewellery to a brown mottled leaf caught edgeways among the red flowers.
Well, his idea was, a new outfit of clothes for you both " "Oh, it is wastefulness! It may not be, brother, it may not be. Consider the vastness of the sum " "Hang the vastness of the sum! Try to keep quiet for a moment, and see how it would seem; a body can't get in a word edgeways, you talk so much.
"I'm pretty much knocked edgeways, Henry but tell me one more thing; this wasn't any bet, was it, or " "Bet!" flared Henry, and all the youth went out of his features. "Yes. Nobody dared you to go and get married it wasn't any kind of a put-up job, was it?" The younger man was righteously indignant.
"Jim was a mighty big man in size and principles," said Lawler. "Now you're shoutin'! There wasn't no man bigger'n Jim, sideways, edgeways, or up an' down. I reckon any man would have a hard time measurin' up to Jim Lefingwell. Mebbe that's what's wrong with Warden. Folks has got Jim Lefingwell on their minds, an' they're not givin' Warden what's comin' to him, them bein' biased."
Fairthorn recoiled sidelong, growling forth, "Don't you had better not!" grinned the most savage grin, showing all his teeth like a wolf; and as she stood, mute with wonder, perhaps with fright, he slunk edgeways off, as if aware of his own murderous inclinations, turning his head more than once, and shaking it at her; then, with the wonted mystery which enveloped his exits, he was gone! vanished behind a crag, or amidst a bush, or into a hole Heaven knows; but, like the lady in the Siege of Corinth, who warned the renegade Alp of his approaching end, he was "gone."
We borrowed her and now ye remind me, I wouldn't be surprised if Tim Brady was missing her by this, for I had no leisure to ask his leave at the time, and, as a rule, we take our own coracle in the hooker " "What is a hooker?" I interrupted, for I was resolved to know. "What's a hooker? A hooker what a catechetical little chatterbox ye are! A man can't get a word in edgeways a hooker's a boat.
They also employed a system of binding together the small materials so employed by introducing, at short distances apart, courses of flat stones or bricks, called "bond courses," and they further fortified such walls by bands of flat materials placed edgeways after the manner popularly known as herring-bone work.
After travelling three hours and a half we passed over and amongst a range of low hills, a volcanic jumble with earths of all colours, seams of gypsum stuck up edgeways, and many other things. I used once to sigh and groan over not having brought a geologist with us, but I was wiser by that time.
Next, that gentleman fixed a pole upright in the midst, piling the planks from the sawmill close to it, edgeways on both sides, and bracing it with a stay-rope to stem and stern. At the top ran a horizontal stick to act as yard, and upon this he girt an old blanket lent by Jackey Dubois, the corners of which were caught by cords drawn taut and fastened to the balustrade afore-mentioned.
"One of our humorists Doesticks," he added, nodding to Warren, "said that we had to slice our potatoes and slip them down edgeways between the rocks." The old man sprawled himself on the ground and laughed. "Well, if they was to go out a shootin' at liars wheat straw would leak through that feller's hide. How are you gittin' along over thar, Mr.
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