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"Ten o'clock twelve o'clock t'ree o'clock, and no bed; vell I see 'e sun afore a black fool put 'e head on a pillow! An' now a hoe go all 'e same as if he sleep a ten hour. Masser Myn'ert got a heart, and he no wish to kill he people wid work, or old Phyllis war' dead, fifty year, next winter." "I t'ink a wench's tongue nebber satisfy! What for tell a whole world, when Bonnie go to bed?
"The person who could best satisfy you on this point would be Mrs. Flood herself; but I take it you have no desire to see her personally." "Mrs. Flood? Do you mean my brother's wife?" "Certainly." "But but is she here in Plymouth?" Parson Jack's eyes opened wide. "I presume so. Hoe Terrace, she informs me, has been her address for these eight years. But of course you are aware " "Aware, sir?
Nearly all wore caps, and the whole company looked very shabby, indeed. My clothes were in strange contrast with their tattered garments, for there was not another well-dressed passenger in the whole company; and I felt like one out of his element, because I did not also have a pick or hoe!
He set up no crosses, and made no prayers, but with a hoe over his shoulder he marched at the head of his men, as a sign that he meant to live and work among them. A little way inland he chose a spot on which to build his town and called it Elizabeth, in honour of Sir George Carteret's Wife. Things went well enough until the time came for rents to be paid.
"And what will you do now?" sneered Frye, a sinister look entering his yellow eyes, "steal or starve?" "Neither," replied Albert defiantly; "I'll go back to Sandgate and hoe corn first." Then, as a realizing sense of how much he was in the power of this courageous stripling came to Frye, his arrogance all melted, and as he turned and began to play with a paper-cutter he said meekly: "Come, Mr.
The bearded man, apparently unconscious of the Royal scrutiny, had placed a rounded stone on the gravel, and was standing beside it making curious passes over it with his hoe. It was this singular behaviour that had attracted the King's attention. Superficially it seemed silly, and yet Merolchazzar had a curious feeling that there was a deep, even a holy, meaning behind the action.
They had thick woollen tunics, like those of the fishers, under them, and their arms were bare, and sinewy with long toil with spade and hoe, for these two were the working brothers in field and garden. We helped Gerda into the stern sheets, and pushed off, splashing knee deep into the water as we ran the boat out among the waves.
I am not skilful with the hoe, but I am as proud of my flower garden as any of my neighbors. And as to the relative advantages of city and country, I am quite of the opinion of Harry. "Harry," said his grandfather the other day, "don't you want to go back to the city and live?" "No!" said Harry, with the utmost expression of scorn on his face. "Why not, Harry?" "It smells so." We join the Church.
It had been introduced by Robert Hoe in the very years when Morse was struggling to perfect the telegraph. Before that time newspapers were printed in the United States, on presses operated as Franklin's press had been operated, by hand. The New York Sun, the pioneer of cheap modern newspapers, was printed by hand in 1833, and four hundred impressions an hour was the highest speed of one press.
Of course I hate to see strangers take possession of the homestead, and and papa's and mamma's and brother Phil's graves are out there on the hillside. It is hard, hard, but what was I to do? I couldn't plant and hoe and plow, and you couldn't, so I am beaten, beaten." The girl threw out her hands with a despairing gesture and burst into tears.
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