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How often a garbled account has been given, and yet the whole was so terribly simple! "Fortune makes her favourites confiding. Pompey was also. Though more than fifty years old he lacked two years of sixty he sprang into the boat quickly enough, with merely a little assistance from a freedman.
In a word, as the whole relation is carefully garbled of all the levity and looseness that was in it, so it all applied, and with the utmost care, to virtuous and religious uses. None can, without being guilty of manifest injustice, cast any reproach upon it, or upon our design in publishing it.
But in the light of day and Sarah Libbie's presence, his sonorous philippic would dwindle away into a jargon of garbled phrases too disjointed and meaningless to carry weight with any woman, let alone the peerless Sarah Libbie Lewis.
You are conscious of a deep and ever so earnest nature in his pictures. He impressed himself on his canvases in spite of his so faulty expression. He had an understanding of depth but surface was strange to him. He garbled his sentences so to speak with excessive and useless wording.
Other selections from the Imperial correspondence will be shortly laid before our readers. Remember, the only genuine letters are those in PUNCHINELLO. All others are garbled forgeries. Roma! Roma! non e plu com' ora Prima. With the downfall of the Pope's temporal power, comes the report that several newspapers have been established in the Eternal City.
But I never showed the white feather to a hobo," Elder repeated scathingly. "No; but what is it Kipling, or Shakespeare, says? 'While there's life there's soap?" observed Ryan, a sudden twinkle appearing in his eye. The inspector explained the meaning of his facetiously garbled quotation when Elder left the table. The proposal he made was greeted with enthusiasm.
But at that moment a furious peal of the bell rang through the house. We both ran into the hall. The servant had just opened the door, and a telegraph-clerk stood on the steps, with a telegram, which he thrust into his hands. It was directed to me. I tore it open. "From Jean Grimont, Granville, to Dr. Dobrée. Brook Street, London." I did not know any Jean Grimont, of Granville, it was the name of a stranger to me. A message was written underneath in Norman patois, but so mispelt and garbled in its transmission that I could not make out the sense of it. The only words I was sure about were "mam'zelle," "Foster," "Tardif," and "
The same disregard to exactness which led to these blunders, may have produced the interpolation of this voyage, garbled out of the letters of Vespucci and the accounts of other voyagers.
He has put me to the greatest shame, me and my wife the Lady Swanhild, whom I left in his guard to such shame, indeed, that I cannot speak it." "True words, Earl," said Eric, while folk murmured and handled their swords. "True, but not all the truth," growled Skallagrim. "Methinks the Earl has heard a garbled tale."
By to-night, the story of that supper will have spread from the Battery to Poughkeepsie bridge. It will be garbled and twisted into all manner of shapes, and it will come boomeranging back at her from every quarter of the town. When it comes to gossip, we find Manhattan Island is a mighty small place; but I suppose Australia is just as bad." Thayer interrupted his meditations ruthlessly.
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