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Updated: June 23, 2025
All eyes were turned on Gladys as she came into the room again, but as hers were always fixed on what she was carrying, or on her mistress, she was not aware of the sudden attention she excited. 'Irish beggars! muttered Netta. 'One of mother's godsends, said Mr Prothero. 'What a beautiful piece of snow, thought Owen. After tea Mr Prothero invited Mrs Jenkins to go and see his fine fat cattle.
After talking over the matter, therefore, in a familiar way, we determined to repair at once to the Leaplow legation, in order to ask for our passports, and to offer, at the same time, to carry any dispatches that Judge People's Friend might have prepared for his government it being the custom of the Leaplowers to trust to these godsends in carrying on their diplomatic correspondence.
So I doubt not she drove a thriving trade, although to Western ideas of value her charges were infinitesimally small. Midday halts for lunch are godsends to tramps who travel with porters. They compel the porters to catch up, and give the hirer opportunity to say things which at least relieve him, if they do no good.
Strangers they seek, because they have long since decreed that this country, with its usages, its people, and all it contains, being founded on popular rights, is all that is debased and vulgar, themselves and a few of their own particular friends excepted; and they are never so happy as when they are gloating on, and basking in, the secondary refinements of what we call the 'old region. Their own attainments, however, being pretty much godsends, or such as we all pick up in our daily intercourse, they know nothing of any foreign country but Leaphigh, whose language we happen to speak; and, as Leaphigh is also the very beau ideal of exclusion, in its usages, opinions, and laws, they deem all who come from that part of the earth, as rather more entitled to their profound homage than any other strangers."
Among their stores were two augers and two gimlets, and they were veritable godsends; they enabled the boys to make use of pegs and to save the few nails that they had for other and greater emergencies. The door was made, and now came the task to "hang" it. "Hang" was merely a metaphorical word, as they fitted it into place instead.
He wished to be considered a hospitable man, and frequently rejoiced his neighbors with invitations to visit his beautiful estate. To him strangers were godsends.
There were three masts protruding over the water at one spot, the relics of some gallant ship, and index to one of those godsends which the Spanish Government is solicitous to guarantee to the distressed and deserving local fishermen. What a pity it was not the Murillo! That would have been poetic retribution.
"They put out quite a line of such godsends to the neophyte in the kitchen, the popularity of which is reflected in a steadily rising divorce-rate," Tipton said. "They advertise very extensively, including half an hour of tear-jerking drama on a national hookup during soap-opera time.
"How idle it is to call certain things godsends! as if there were anything else in the world." It is accounted a part of the machinery of invention when, in a story, several coincident circumstances, that apart, would have had no noticeable result, bear down together, with a nice and sure calculation upon some catastrophe or dénouement that develops itself therefrom.
But such things are very rare, quite godsends, I may say!" "Well, Mr. Douce, whenever I have money to lay out, I must come and consult you." "I shall be most happy at all times to to advise your lordship; but it is not a thing I'm very fond of.
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