United States or Samoa ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
This explanation is also necessary to do justice to the pigmy floater, as it was always painted in the gayest colours possible. It was quite a pet of the first-lieutenant's. Indeed, he loved it so much, that he took care never to oppress it with his own weight. The Cove of Cork is a fine harbour, entered by the means of a somewhat narrow straight.
The traveling man who will try can make almost anything he wishes of himself. The head of the house must be on the lookout for the floater. In every city there are many professional job finders. About the only time they ever put up a good, strong line of conversation is when they talk for a job.
And you know that mulberry bushes don't figure in that game any more than the bells of St. Clement Danes are ever used by children playing 'Oranges and lemons." "Admit it was a floater on your part, and I'll let you play a round with me." "I er confess, upon consideration, that the allusion " "That'll do," she said, laughing. I rose. She put out a hand, and I drew her to her feet.
He may pretend to some right of that natur', but he is so far away that his claim will never trouble old Tom Hutter, who has got possession, and is like to keep it as long as his life lasts. Tom is no squatter, not being on land; I call him a floater." "I invy that man! I know it's wrong, and I strive ag'in the feelin', but I invy that man!
This, perhaps, is about the only incident in the entire war to date where both the British and the Germans were equally bent upon the destruction of a common object. The wind suddenly changed and a steady current of air in the other direction brought it back over our own lines; then the two remaining men seized the opportunity to leave the floater in their parachutes, dropping to safety.
Cameron wasn't a bad chap he simply hadn't character enough to be bad he was a floater! When Bud got that into his system, it sobered him more than if he'd been told his father was a scamp. A year later the boy came to me and said: 'Uncle David, if you don't think I'd queer your profession I'm going to make a try at it."
They oughtn't to be mixed, but each to be separate, or they spoil each other. The tumbler should be nearly full of water, then pour a little oil on the top, and put in your tiny wick and floater, and ignite it. The water goes to the bottom that's business you see, solid and heavy. The oil and its burner lies on the top and that's romance.
While I toyed there with the sub-soil, the unwearied James went to earth among the marrows. "A hundred and seventy-nine. My game, I think," I announced. James extricated himself and walked with me to the butt. "Hullo!" I said, "it's sunk. Thought it was a floater. It ought to be for a half-crown ball." "You mustn't lose it," said James suspiciously. "Well let off the water and get it out."
I might have known that some hideous disaster would strike this house like a thunderbolt if once you wriggled your way into it and started trying to be clever." Harsh words, of course, as from aunt to nephew, but I bore her no resentment. No doubt, if you looked at it from a certain angle, Bertram might be considered to have made something of a floater. "I am sorry."
For twelve winters he visited Heorot and killed some of the guests whenever he heard the sound of festivity in the hall, until at length the young hero Beowulf, who lived a day's sail from Hrothgar, determined to rescue Heorot from this curse. The youth selected fourteen warriors and on a "foamy-necked floater, most like to a bird," he sailed to Hrothgar.
Word Of The Day