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"Yet a milder mannered man I never saw," said the squire. PARSON: "Mild-mannered fiddlestick!" Then, raising his voice so that the stranger should get the full benefit, he added, "He's as mild a mannered man as ever scuttled ship or cut a throat!"

The age "capers in its own fee simple" and cries with the Host in "The Merry Devil of Edmonton," "Away with punctilios and orthography!" Write poetry now! Thank you, my ancient friend! "My fiddlestick cannot play without rosin." To be sure, I am, like most minstrels, ready for an offer; and should any lover of melody propose "Two hundred crowns, and twenty pounds a year For three good lives,"

The children of the district were especially handsome, and Madame was much smitten by their rosy cheeks and many-shaded flaxen hair. "Ah!" she sighed, "I must make some little presents to the children;" and she looked anxiously over the stalls. "Violin, one and six," said the saleswoman. "Nice work-box for a little girl, half-a-crown." "Half a fiddlestick," said Jack promptly.

"Fiddlestick!" said the miniature snarler. "First, the little touch about the corn monopoly then maternal vanity chastised by the loss of the child's toe then Tom's familiarity with his cat, showing the danger arising from a man making too free with his female domestics the historical point about the penal laws the fatal results of letting the cat out o' the bag, with the curious final fact in natural history."

Travel traveller travellers what's the common name for the oh, dear! the what's his name that scrambles about in the hedges. A flower you know?" "Deadly Nightshade?" said Harry. "Deadly fiddlestick! "Bryony?" I suggested. "Oh, no; it begins with C." "Clematis?" said Adela. "Clematis. Right you are, Adela. And the common name for Clematis is Traveller's Joy.

"'The Temple of Fashion' would do very well," said Jones. "The Temple of Fiddlestick!" said Robinson. "Of course you say so," said Jones. "Let dogs delight " began Mr. Brown, standing as we were in the middle of the street. "I'll tell you what," said Robinson; "there's nothing like colour. We'll call it Magenta House, and we'll paint it magenta from the roof to the window tops."

It will be remembered that out of about a thousand souls on board that vessel the occupants of one boat only twenty-five people in all were saved. Among the drowned was Mr. Meeson, the head of the well-known Birmingham publishing company of Meeson, Addison, and Roscoe, and Co. Mr. Fiddlestick, Q.C., who with Mr.

And there are two flies, coming up from the train, of course." Miss Stanbury was obliged to fix the side of her chair very close to the window in order that she might see that part of the Close in which the vehicles of which she had spoken were able to pass. "Perhaps they are not coming from the train, Aunt Stanbury." "Perhaps a fiddlestick!

Short, I have been consulting with my clients and um, the Attorney and Solicitor-General and Mr. Fiddlestick, and we are quite willing to admit that there are circumstances of doubt in this case which would justify us in making an offer of settlement." "Before I can enter into that, Mr. News," said John, with great dignity, "I must request the presence of my counsel." "Oh, certainly," said Mr.

But I never can desire I may be wrong but I never can desire, that my son, and the grandson of the Marquis of Esmond, should be a fiddler." "Should be a fiddlestick, my dear," the old Colonel answered. "Remember that Heaven's ways are not ours, and that each creature born has a little kingdom of thought of his own, which it is a sin in us to invade. Suppose George loves music?

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