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Updated: June 11, 2025
Though the dance through the streets to a special kind of hornpipe, in at the front doors and out at the back, is still continued, the old spirit that actuated it is dead it has become very much of a make-believe, a show for visitors, a galvanised custom that might as well be decently buried.
To the left of the door as you enter, is the shop of a publican, equipped with a bar and a sheltering partition for modest drinkers. To the right, if you turn that way, is a counter at which you can buy anything, from galvanised iron rowlocks to biscuits and jam.
Yours ever, CON. October 23, 1916 Dearest All: As you know I have been in action ever since I left England and am still. I've lived in various extemporised dwellings and am at present writing from an eight foot deep hole dug in the ground and covered over with galvanised iron and sand-bags.
Galvanised by the shock, the musician sat suddenly up. "Last night, after I got back, I slept like a log. This morning, I felt if I had not done it, I would still have it to do and that satisfied me. But afterwards, when I learned about Lennox, it threw me here. Now My God!" He fell back.
And then the modern Griselda, who had been thus galvanised into vitality, stood over her aunt in a mood that was almost triumphant. "Margaret, I am astonished at you," said Lady Ball, when she had recovered herself. "I can't help that, aunt." "And now let me tell you this. My son is, of course, old enough to do as he pleases.
At this point the boss received a distinct shock, for, as his eyes were resting upon Samuel's face meditatively while he listened somewhat apathetically, it must be confessed, to the father's moving tale, the eye of the boy remote from the father closed in a slow but significant wink. The boss sat up, galvanised into alert attention. "Eh? What?" he exclaimed.
As might have been expected, this celebrated novel's name had galvanised him into life; he strolled over to the bookcase, took down a book, opened it, and began to read, wandering in a desultory way about the room. "Ha!
Nothing further from their thoughts than war for they were thirty miles behind Division they were suddenly galvanised into action by the sight of the advance guard slipping into the roadside ditches and opening rapid rifle fire at some object ahead.
A good howdah should be made of exceedingly strong and tough wood for the framework, dovetailed, and screwed together, the joints being specially secured by long corner straps of the best iron. The frame ought to be panelled with galvanised wire of the strongest description, the mesh being one-half inch.
For one brief second he stared, horror-stricken, and wondering what it was. But before the whole length of the creature was in, he knew. It was Fright himself! And he was making steadily for the window! The shock instantly galvanised the boy into a state of activity again. He recovered the use of all his muscles and all his faculties.
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