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"'Fraid I can't 'commodate ye; got to go down to widow Jenkins's with my wood. Gee, Buck! Haw, Barry!" said the farmer, as he started on. "Rich, why don't ye pull it up yourself," said an apprentice. "Better get an axe and chop it down, if it's such an eyesore to ye," said another. "Get a crowbar and dig it up. A little exercise will be good for ye," said a third.
'We don't want it and that is why we have it. We call it our eyesore; and it is the eye of our destiny. Look again. 'What is this? muttered Yellow-cap. 'All the heads are melting into one another; now they are all swallowed up in the central head; and now that head looks more like me than ever, and yet uglier; and now why, it looks like the old dwarf I carried across the river, and which am I?
Naturally the dwelling of James Gracie was an eyesore to this man, being visible from not a few of his windows, and from almost anywhere on the private road to his house; for decidedly it was not tidy. Neither in truth was it dirty, while to any life loving nature it was as pleasant to know, as it was picturesque to look at.
"But we can't possibly have a garden-party with a man dead just outside the front gate." That really was extravagant, for the little cottages were in a lane to themselves at the very bottom of a steep rise that led up to the house. A broad road ran between. True, they were far too near. They were the greatest possible eyesore, and they had no right to be in that neighbourhood at all.
Pett's house might be an eyesore from without, but inside it had had the benefit of the skill of the best interior decorator in New York. "A man could be very happy in a house like this, if he didn't have to poison his days with work," said Jimmy. Mr. Pett looked alarmed. "Don't go saying anything like that to your aunt!" he urged. "She thinks you have come to settle down." "So I have.
The Roman possessions were an ugly eyesore to a man who held that Africa should be for the Africans. But it remained to be seen whether his views would always be held by his own subjects or by some less cautious or less happily placed successor of his own line. It was indeed possible that a hostile feeling of nationality might be awakened beyond the limits even of the great kingdom of Numidia.
So she put on a shawl and went into her front yard, simply to walk about and get a little of the fresh air. But when she went out of the door, she stood still contemplating the front fence. Here was a fence which had been an eyesore to her for two or three years!
They strolled slowly along toward the Place D'Arms, which then possessed all that natural beauty, in the shape of its green lawns and ancient sycamores, which fashion has since seen fit to regard as an eyesore, and to remove for ever thence.
VII. The construction of these vessels, the very sacrifice of the citizens, the general interest that must have attached to an undertaking that was at once novel in itself, and yet congenial not more to the passions of a people, who daily saw from their own heights the hostile rock of Aegina, "the eyesore of the Piraeus," than to the habits of men placed in a steril land that on three sides tempted to the sea all combined to assist Themistocles in his master policy a policy which had for its design gradually to convert the Athenians from an agricultural into a maritime people.
"Because they'd go any length to do us harm every one of 'em." Again the grip on Lucy's arm tightened painfully. Dragging the girl to the window the old woman cried: "Do you see that pile of stones over there? That's the wall the Howes built years an' years ago built because of the grudge they bore the Websters, likely. Did you ever look on such an eyesore?"
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