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He never had forgotten me; until he did, I should have kept unwavering faith. Now, I had the best place of any one in the room, and I smoothed my new plaid frock and shook my handmade curls just as near like Shelley as ever I could.
Every drawing-room furnishes nourishment, in the admiration awarded to costliness to silks that are "rich," that is, expensive; to dresses that contain an enormous quantity of material, that is, are expensive; to laces that are handmade, that is, expensive; to diamonds that are rare, that is, expensive; to china that is old, that is, expensive.
"That's one of your mother's latest extravagances," explained Judge Emery. "There's a crazy fad in Endbury for special handmade furniture. Maybe it's all right, but I can't see it's so much better than what you buy in the department stores. Grand Rapids is good enough for me." "He doesn't like the man who made it," said Mrs. Emery accusingly.
The merchant fixes his price very high and then lowers it gradually as he thinks discreet, according to the behavior of his customer. Handmade silks from looms in the cottages of the peasants can still be purchased in Benares and they wear forever.
The spoons were silver; old handmade rat-tail spoons they were, with the mark of the smith's mallet still upon them and the initials W.D. cut in uneven letters. "Those were my great-granddad's," said Wesley. "Same name as mine. He had 'em made out of silver money by a man down in Frederick. They must be nearly a hundred years old.
The remains found in the deposit of this period are naturally of a very simple and primitive character. They consist of pottery, handmade without any use of the wheel, and hand-burnished, black in colour, and, in the latest specimens, adorned with incised ornament, which is sometimes filled in with a white chalky substance.
Snarbi knows this country and he knew we would find out that he was missing at dawn. Whatever kind of trouble he is bringing is already on the way and we wouldn't be able to escape on foot. So we might as well save our energy. But they aren't getting my handmade, super-charged steamobile!" he added with sudden vehemence, grabbing up the crossbow. "Back both of you, far back.
All the furniture was handmade, cunningly pegged together and highly polished. On the walls hung trophies of weapons thrusting-spears and throwing-spears, crossbows and quarrels, and a number of heavy guns, crude things, but carefully made. "Pick all this stuff up off the locals?" Harkaman asked. "Yes, we got most of it at a big town down at the forks of the river," Valkanhayn said.
"He did about the stone chest. The whole truth is, so far as I can understand, he got father to go up there in search of it. After it was found they got into some trouble with the natives, and Ruel Gross abandoned father to his fate. Here is a handmade map of the locality." "Pray Heaven your father still lives," murmured Mrs. Cromwell. "But you say you are going up there. How?" "I don't know.
Janet was still looking out of the window as though she feared the mitten might fly away if she took her eyes from it. They waited until the door bell announced Chuck's arrival. Phyllis flew down the stairs to meet him. "Here," he said, by way of greeting and he handed her a white mitten. Phyllis took it eagerly; it had a blue border, and it was handmade after a pattern of long ago.
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