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There are exceptions to all rules; and there are chances in all games, even in games of skill. Lord Timothy Dexter, as he is facetiously called, shipped warming-pans to the West Indies, in defiance of all geographical objections to the venture, and made money by the shipment, not because warming-pans were wanted there, but because the natives mistook and used them for molasses-ladles.
This is shown every year in the spectacular Glidden tours, otherwise the National Reliability tests, in which a number of cars of various makes cover a scheduled route of two or three thousand miles, in which are included all the different kinds of abominations facetiously termed "roads."
Of course it required one or other of them to be always at the "wheel," as Ben facetiously styled the steering apparatus, and the first spell of this duty the captain had taken upon himself, considering it too important, so long as it was only on trial, to be intrusted either to Snowball or little William.
Maggie had carried wee Anne to tender her congratulations; Long Kirby had come; Tammas, Saunderson, Hoppin, Tupper, Londesley all but Jim Mason; and now, elbowing through the press, came squire and parson. "Well done, James! well done, indeed! Knew you'd win! told you so eh, eh!" Then facetiously to Owd Bob: "Knew you would, Robert, old man! Ought to Robert the Dev musn't be a naughty boy eh, eh!"
Now it had again returned to silence; indeed such is the surprising instability of art 'principles' as they are facetiously called it was just as likely as not to sink into the neglect and oblivion which had been its lot in Georgian times.
"Well, Henry," said the county attorney facetiously, "at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it. She was going to what is it you call it, ladies?" Mrs. Hale's hand was against the pocket of her coat. "We call it knot it, Mr. Henderson." By FREDERICK STUART GREENE From The Century Magazine
Such of the present generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth century will be fully sensible of the truth of this statement; especially if their acquaintance and connexions lay among those who in my younger time were facetiously called 'folks of the old leaven, who still cherished a lingering, though hopeless, attachment to the house of Stuart.
And, hark you! the next time you come to me, take care to come with a better story let your father and mother, and six brothers and sisters, be all lying ill of the fever do you understand?" He tore the bill into bits as he spoke, and showered it over the boy's head. Pembroke's companions laughed at this operation, and he facetiously called it "powdering a dun."
I showed her the nine and facetiously asked her to choose; or should I spread them all at once? She always has too much in hand to stop to jest over trifles; she waved the tea-cloths aside, and seized her cup off Mrs Bust's tray, and went on talking shop. I don't want to decry Jessica. She's worth all the rest put together. While they gabble, she does things.
This poem , which has been facetiously called "a Roman murder story," was suggested to him by a "square old yellow book," which he purchased for a few cents at Florence in 1860. This manuscript, dated 1698, gives an account of the trial of Guido Franceschini for the murder of his wife. Out of this "mere ring metal," Browning fashioned his "Ring," a poem twice the length of Paradise Lost.
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