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Blood-raw he proved to be on this occasion, so that Oldbuck half threatened to throw the greasy sea-fowl at the head of the negligent housekeeper, who acted as priestess in presenting this odoriferous offering. But, by good-hap, she had been most fortunate in the hotch-potch, which was unanimously pronounced to be inimitable.
He could not help being disgusted by their tricks, their sly coquetry, their sentimentality, which seemed to expend itself by preference upon creatures hardly worthy of interest, their style crammed with metaphor, their love-making and sensuality, their hotch-potch of subtlety and brutality. But Christophe was ready to admit that he was not in a position to judge.
It's a hotch-potch, a disorderly medley of the poor stuff I wrote as a student, plucked by the censor and by the editors of comic papers. I am sure that many people will be disappointed when they read it. Had I known that I had readers and that you were watching me, I would not have published this book. I rest all my hopes on the future. I am only twenty-six.
Pike dubs them "Dutchmen." One thing is certain, they have a language of their own which they talk with one another. But of our hotch-potch of nationalities fore and aft there is no person who catches an inkling of their language or nationality. Mr.
It may be illustrated accordingly with variety of examples in the subdivisions of it, and with as many precepts as there are members of it, which all together may complete that olla or hotch-potch which is properly a satire. Under this unity of theme or subject is comprehended another rule for perfecting the design of true satire.
Not many minutes before he appeared, not with the tin dipper but a whole bucketful of clear cold water, forgetting all about his sore feet; and while the men went and sat round the iron pot of savoury hotch-potch, Tom Jones stayed behind to help bathe and bandage the head of the handsome little fellow upon whose sunburned face more than one hot tear fell, as loving hands made him up a temporary bed of great-coats in the shade.
"It's na a trail; it's just a hotch-potch o' rocks some sharp as stickit teeth!" groaned Andrew, who saw his own doom fixed, in vain protesting.
Persecution of Catholics was violent, and in spring 1615 Father Ogilvie was hanged after very cruel treatment directed by Archbishop Spottiswoode. In this year the two ecclesiastical Courts of High Commission were fused into one, and an Assembly was coerced into passing what James called "Hotch-potch resolutions" about changes in public worship.
Look at animals, and Red Indians, limited to feeling their own occasional misfortunes; then look at ourselves never free from feeling the toothaches of others. Let's get back to feeling for nobody, and have a better time." "You'll never practise that." Garton pensively stirred the hotch-potch of his hair. "To attain full growth, one mustn't be squeamish. To starve oneself emotionally's a mistake.
Without him they would be a flock without a shepherd, or a hotch-potch, in which it would be difficult to discriminate anything. To finish with Tolstoy, I have something to say about "Resurrection," which I have read not piecemeal, in parts, but as a whole, at one go. It is a remarkable artistic production.
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