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Updated: June 1, 2025
The long green gray buds of the butternut, pistillate flowers in some, staminate flowers in others; the saffron buds of the butternut hickory; the ruby buds of the bass wood; the varnished bud scales of the sycamore and the poplar; the big gummy scales which protect the pussy catkins of the aspen; the queer little buds of the sumac and the rusty buds of the ash; every one of these refutes the aspersions cast upon the winter woods by those who never go out to see.
"Father didn't name him that just for the money's sake. Mother says a million dollars wouldn't really pay for such a name. But father thought a lot of Uncle John Gumswith. "But when Gummy grows up, he will have to go through life, so he says, signing has name 'G. Carringford," and Amy began to giggle at this thought.
The Grasshopper then makes a banquet off this fertilizing capsule, drains it slowly of its contents, and devours it bit by bit; for a long time she chews and rechews the gummy morsel and ends by swallowing it all down. In less than half a day, the milky burden has disappeared, consumed with zest down to the last atom.
They fold together and stand nearly perpendicular during the heat of the day, so that only the shadow of their edges comes to the ground. On these leaves the small larvae of a winged insect appear covered over with a sweet, gummy substance.
"I wipe the brushes on the front of my blouses until it gets too gummy, and then I turn it hind part before. You and your mother must have thought I was some contortionist yesterday," and she extracted a hair brush from one of the shoes hanging on a hook and gave her tousled hair a vigorous punishment. "Shall I put this tub out of sight?" asked Molly, picking up a great English hat tub.
'For that, Mr Wegg inwardly decides, as he takes a corrective sniff or two, 'is musty, leathery, feathery, cellary, gluey, gummy, and, with another sniff, 'as it might be, strong of old pairs of bellows. 'My tea is drawing, and my muffin is on the hob, Mr Wegg; will you partake? It being one of Mr Wegg's guiding rules in life always to partake, he says he will.
Tell me, why do you hunt me up like this, after so long?" "Can you ask?" says he. "Look! No in my eyes, Katie." And, say, with things gettin' that gummy, I was beginnin' to feel like a cold boiled potato served accidental with the pie. "Excuse me," says I, "but maybe I'd better wait in the next room." "Not at all," says Mrs. Steele, real crisp and businesslike.
"It don't leave much for ambition, does it?" said the sunburnt man. "I was one of those men who were saved from the Ocean Pioneer. Gummy! how time flies! It's twenty years ago. I doubt if you'll remember anything of the Ocean Pioneer?" The name was familiar, and I tried to recall when and where I had read it. The Ocean Pioneer? "Something about gold dust," I said vaguely, "but the precise "
It was, no doubt, the memory of this home that made Napoleon, when emperor, design schemes for the good of Corsica schemes that might have brought him more honour than many conquests, but which he had no time or leisure to carry out. On S. Helena his mind often reverted to them, and he would speak of the gummy odours of the macchi wafted from the hillsides to the seashore.
I can put it out, if I can get out on to that ell roof through that little window up there." he cried. "That's the hired' girl's room," gasped Janice. "What's he going to do? Take pails of water out there and throw them down the chimney?" "Give the boy a chance," said daddy. "Maybe he can do something." And to Janice's amazement, her father was smiling. Gummy ran around to the back of the wagon.
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