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Updated: May 4, 2025
He then took a flat plane with a toothed iron, whose effect is much like that of a rasp which reduces wood into dust: in this manner he contrived to leave the pannel no thicker than a sheet of paper."
I now desire to ask the witness, Eliza Harris, who lives in that house, when she last saw the man in question the man who rented that third flat." A bright-eyed little woman arose at this, and said: "I see him now. There he is!" She pointed to John Jones. "He wore a false beard," she continued, "but I know him. And there's the woman." She stretched out her hand toward Mrs. Jones.
Then nourishing flat cakes were made in abundance. While this breakfast for the sick was being prepared, the missionary, with his assistants, was busily engaged in making the rounds of the sick. Their various wants were attended to, medicine was given, and every thing that could be, was cheerfully done for their comfort.
Nor did he ever remonstrate or urge her to change her ways. And she knew why. He had no key with which to open her cage. Once, truly, he attempted it, and it was she who refused the glittering thing. He rarely came uninvited to her flat, for obvious reasons; but one night she heard him on the stairs as she got ready for bed.
I was flat on my face behind that rock and my hand was in another pocket. It brought out something more to the point than sandwiches. I had a pretty good idea by this time where the shots were coming from and I risked a quick rise of my head to make quite sure.
The bay is very narrow at the entrance, but the moment you get past the Heads, it extends to a breadth of eight or ten miles, and to a length of twenty-two miles, from the mouth to the anchoring place. The land around the bay is flat and sandy, and covered with wood almost to the water's edge.
Our Lord had said, 'Be not anxious as to what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, or wherewithal ye shall be clothed; for after all these things do the heathen seek. I gave Him a flat denial, and said, Be anxious; labor especially for these things, first for yourselves, then for others.
I think in spite of the menace, they found real beatitudes; so keenly did they set about the business that it brought them moments finer than any they could count in the years that were behind them, the flat and colourless years that were gone.
First of all, though our cultivation paddock was small, and the good land seemed squeezed in between the hills, there was a narrow tract up the creek, and here it widened out into a large well-grassed flat. This was where our cattle ran, for, of course, we had a team of workers and a few milkers when we came.
"This waitin’—" Anse sat cross-legged on the bunk next to Drew’s, his thumb spinning the rowel of one spur. "I never did take kindly to waitin’. Is he or ain’t he gonna sign me on?" Drew, lying flat, stared up at the muslin-covered ceiling which years of dust had turned to yellow-brown. "You ought to be used to it by now—waitin’, I mean. We had us plenty of it in the army."
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