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Jacques Coictier bowed low and said, "Sire, it is a repellent which will save you. We will apply to your loins the great defensive composed of cerate, Armenian bole, white of egg, oil, and vinegar. You will continue your ptisan and we will answer for your majesty." A burning candle does not attract one gnat alone.
He came rushing and crashing through the thick undergrowth of the forest, swirling his long tail and opening wide his great jaws, and as he rushed he RO-AR-R-R-ED! Presently he reached the spot where the little Gnat hung panting at the tip of the waving grass-blade. Now the little Gnat was not afraid of lions, so when he saw it was only a lion, he cried out "Hi, stop, stop!
For, as I held on to the shrouds, and looked sharply aft at the mention of my name, he said "Thank you, Mr Herrick; very good indeed;" while, as I reached the deck, Mr Reardon came up "Yes, capital, Mr Herrick. A very arduous task, and you have done it well." "Bravo, Gnat!
Then they told me about the inquest I shall have to go to-morrow and on the way home I went to see Lady Connie. I thought she ought to know." Sorell started. "And you found her?" "Oh, yes. She was sitting in the garden." There was a short silence. Then Otto flung up his left hand, caught a gnat that was buzzing round his head, and laughed a dreary little sound.
The light shone out upon the broad and deep mill-head, illuminating to a distinct individuality every moth and gnat that entered the quivering chain of radiance stretching across the water towards him, and every bubble or atom of froth that floated into its width.
But we know with certainty that the gnat, Stegomya fasciata, and no other, is the carrier of the unseen germ, and that we can obliterate that fever by obliterating the gnat. So, too, although we know how the infection of rabies acts, and how it is carried, yet no one has yet isolated and recognised the terrible infective particle itself.
At this point Has-se whispered, "Keep wide open thy ears as well as thy eyes, Ta-lah-lo-ko"; and Réné answered also in a whisper, "They are already so wide open that not the faintest hum of a gnat escapes them. What's that?" The sudden snapping of a twig by some bird or small animal caused them to start, and listen for a moment with uplifted paddles.
Did Buddha, 'neath the bo-tree's shade, Learn how the stars were poised and swayed? Did Jesus still pain's raging storm, And dower the world with chloroform? Or Mahomet a jehad decree 'Gainst microbe-harboring gnat and flea? Has revelation e'er revealed Aught from its age and hour concealed? Or miracle, since time began, Conferred a single boon on Man? Truly, we may agree with Mr.
He began to blink horribly under the raillery of his rival. The General observed him, but as an object remote and minute, a fly or gnat. The face of the brilliant Diana was entirely devoted to him she amused. Lady Dunstane had the faint lines of a decorous laugh on her lips, as she said: 'How odd it is that our men show to such disadvantage in a Ball- room.
A minute later, the Gnat, under the head of her fore-and-aft-main-sail, was seen standing slowly off from the land, looking in the darkness like some half-equipped shadow of herself. The sloop of war, too, was seen bending low to the force of the wind, with her mere apology of a top-sail thrown aback, in waiting for the flag-ship to cast.
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