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The service is going to hell, sir! A parcel of brats, with lieutenant's commissions before they should have been clear of the nursery! No, sir; stay on board, or damn me, I'll break you like an egg-shell, before you have taken a shine out of that fine new epaulette! No, no, by God; no more cats here than catch mice.
He made an estimate, one day, that I had eaten since we started thirty-one and a half chickens, and I have no doubt I had; for chickens were my piece de resistance as well as entrees; and then they WERE chickens, not old hens, little specks of darlings, just giving one hop from the egg-shell to the gridiron, and each time the waiter only brought you one bisegment of the speck, all of whose edible possibilities could easily be salted down in a thimble.
She ate from egg-shell china, and drank from glasses, so crystal clear and thin, that they long stood to Mrs. Cherry as a synonym for perfection. "It's as purty as them glasses of Mis' Worth'ton's," was her final word of praise. And Helen Louise and Peter ate and ate and ate, until their hostess began to be anxious and wondered where they were putting it all.
She began to show them the things: the pictures on the walls, the subjects of which she explained to them; the egg-shell china, which she held up to the light that they might see how thin it was; and some Eastern and Western curios her father had brought home from various voyages.
He hesitated; and, while he was hesitating, St. Clare suddenly raised himself up. The honest face, so full of grief, and with such an imploring expression of affection and sympathy, struck his master. He laid his hand on Tom's, and bowed down his forehead on it. "O, Tom, my boy, the whole world is as empty as an egg-shell."
The vases and cups of this fabric, from the delicacy of their forms, the grace of their designs, and the richness of their colour, are among the most notable survivals of Minoan ceramic art. The clay is fine and carefully sifted, and the walls of the vessels are of extreme thinness and delicacy, approaching to that of the finest egg-shell china.
If a man goeth to the ocean sea for water, let him carry but an egg-shell with him, and with that he shall not bring a gallon home. I know, indeed, that our little pots have a promise of being made like the bowls of the altar; but still our mess must be according to our measure, be that small, or be it great.
The crater is perhaps a league in circumference, it is highest on the northern side, and its interior is shaped like an egg-shell: the depth of the crater apparently extends half-way down the height of the mountain." From ponte, deck; a two-masted vessel, with mat sails, of about 100 tons burden. Estado Geogr., p. 314. Officially called Cagsaua.
Where the sentinel stood, as we have said, he could command a perfect view of the spot from whence the song came, and also discern the serenader himself. He saw him, too, pull the little egg-shell caique in which he sat still nearer the wall of the seraglio.
Ensued a silence during which he chipped at his egg-shell in an absent-minded fashion. "That fellow Kennaston said anything to you yet?" he presently queried. "I I don't understand," she protested oh, perfectly unconvincingly. The tea-making, too, engrossed her at this point to an utterly improbable extent.
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