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Solomon Ansell knew no greater privilege than to accompany his father to these fashionable quarters and whip his humming-top across the ample spaces, the while Moses transacted his business with Malka. Last time the business was psalm-saying.
Might not the child's new-fangled humming-top, which is advertised to dance sixty seconds, be said to dance a minuet? WESTON'S great Feat. Learned Professor. When you see "excellent trouting in a romantic mountain district" advertised in the papers, go somewhere else.
The captain vowed he would like to have us both on board his ship, but that times were too bad for him to offer us a prospect of promotion. 'Spin round the decanters, said he; 'now's the hour for them to go like a humming-top, and each man lend a hand: whip hard, my lads. It's once in three years, hurrah! and the cause is a cruel woman. Toast her; but no name. Here's to the nameless Fair!
"And the fact is, that the rosary, which seems to be only a humming-top of sounds, fulfils an end.
So it was with Trevethick's spring lock. He adjusted the hands, and the padlock sprang open; he lifted the lid, and the box was empty; the two thousand pounds in Bank of England notes were gone. His face grew purple, the veins in his forehead stood out, and his well-seasoned head, which liquor could so little affect, went round and round with him, and sang like a humming-top.
"And you made a song about me actually about me," said Brandon, looking as if he wished the five young Phillipses out of the way. "Oh! Alice can make a song about anything," said Constance; "she made one about my little kitten." "And such a nice one about my humming-top how it goes whiz whiz," said Hubert.
I gave him seven fish-hooks all I had and made him take them; and Seppi gave him his new knife and a humming-top painted red and yellow atonements for swindles practised upon him formerly, as I learned later, and probably no longer remembered by Nikolaus now.
Now that she was really in his home she was happy, happy though her head ached with that dull odd pain, and all the sunny glare went round and round like a great gilded humming-top, such as the babies clapped their hands at, at the Kermesse. She was happy: she felt sure now that God would not let him die till she got to him.
And never a paragraph. "Then there is the tone elevated, diffusive, and interjectional. Some of our best novelists patronize this tone. The words must be all in a whirl, like a humming-top, and make a noise very similar, which answers remarkably well instead of meaning. This is the best of all possible styles where the writer is in too great a hurry to think.
Daily and hourly men waved and perspired and rubbed against scratching posts, and daily and hourly the Willy-Willys whirled and spun and danced, and daily and hourly as they threatened to dance, and spin, and whirl through the house, the homestead sped across the enclosure to slam doors and windows in their faces, thus saving our belongings from their whirling, dusty ravages; and when nimbler feet were absent it was no uncommon sight to see Cheon, perspiring and dishevelled, speeding towards the house like a huge humming-top, with speeding Willy-Willys speeding after him, each bent on reaching the goal before the other.
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