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Perhaps the ocean steamer is nearest unity and easiest to measure, for any one might hire, in 1905, for a small sum of money, the use of 30,000 steam-horse-power to cross the ocean, and by halving this figure every ten years, he got back to 234 horse-power for 1835, which was accuracy enough for his purposes.
"It's not worth halving," observed the gentleman, in a surly tone, taking up the fish with his own knife and fork, and putting it on his plate. "Well, I'm so glad you like them, my dear," replied the lady meekly; then turning to me, "there's some nice roast weal coming, my dear." The veal made its appearance, and fortunately for us Mr Handycock could not devour it all.
Truly the brother?" Peter assured him, not even halving the relationship; and indeed, he seldom did that, even in his thoughts. The visitor gave him a card, bearing the name of Signor Giacomo Stefani, sat down, at Peter's request, spat between his feet, and said, "I have had various affairs with your Signor brother before. I am come to solicit his patronage in the matter of a pair of vases.
Your situation admits no compounding of opposite systems, or halving with justice, but to make the cure there must be an entire change of measures. The Creator of nature and its laws made justice as necessary for nations as for individuals, and this necessity hath been sealed by the fate of all obstinate offenders.
This insured him at least a tie for the medal score, but the match honours would go to Kirkaldy if he could hole that long putt. We held our breaths! He went to the left by a slight margin, halving the match by holes. Here is the card coming in: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 KIRKALDY 5 4 6 3 4 4 4 3 6 39 WALLACE 3 4 5 3 5 3 4 4 5-36
Carrington. "And that halving of the allowance is the beginning of the whole business. Manley had made up his mind to marry a lady with a fixed income indeed, they were probably already engaged. Loudwater upsets the arrangement. Manley restores the status quo by means of this cheque and the murder of Loudwater. Of course, he hated Loudwater he admitted as much to me more than once.
And now at last the Bishops understood that the doubling of their dioceses was but a device of Machiavellian subtlety for the halving of their temporalities. The Bishops had just opened their holy mouths to protest when the approach of the Jubilee festivities shut them up.
A boon, your gracious majesty," continued Jerry, bending on one knee. "God forbid that I should deprive your majesty of that," replied Jerry, smiling at the idea of halving nothing. "It is only to request that I may not keep the middle watch to-night." "Rise, Jerry, you shall not keep a night-watch for a fortnight."
"You know," he said, not looking at her, when at last she had for the moment exhausted argument and prophecy, "you have to think of those who will succeed you here; still more you have to think of marriage before you pledge yourself to the halving of your income." Now he must needs look at her intently, out of sheer nervousness.
Give him a crust, he said, and somebody to halve it with a home-made crust baked by a wife. It was a pretty picture, but somewhat spoiled by Mrs. Tidger suggesting that, though he had spoken of halving the crust, he had said nothing about the beer. "Half of my beer wouldn't be much," said the dealer, slowly. "Not the half you would give your wife wouldn't," retorted Mrs. Tidger.
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