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"Love and luxury for the women: money and power for the men," was his broad working scheme for the special interest of the paper, with, of course, crime and the allure of the flesh for general interest. The Great Gaines, descending for once from the habitual classicism of his phraseology, described The Patriot of Severance's production in two terse and sufficient words. "It itches."
For you gentlemen can see for yourselves, by considering these pages fairly and as a whole, that these pages bear a sword and a lance and a staff, and nothing else whatever; and you will deduce, I hope, that all the lewdness is in the insectival mind of him who itches to be calling these things by other names." The judges said nothing as yet.
All right: you can go on, I see what it's for...." And this is how we work together. "What are you doing? Ah, you're washing it. I like that. It does me good. Good blood! Rub a little more just there. You don't know how it itches. Oh! if you're going to put the tube in, you must tell me, that I may hold on tight to the table." So the work gets on famously.
When a cough is taken, when the skin itches with the scab, and the teeth are numb and hollow, and the stomach turns squeamish, then old age banishes the grace of youth, covers the complexion with decay, and sows many a wrinkle in the dusky skin.
I think I should go off my head with rapture if I owned an antique like that. But, pardon me, have you met with an accident, Mr. Bawdrey? That's an ugly place you have on your palm." "That? Oh, that's nothing," he answered, gaily. "It itches a great deal at times, but otherwise it isn't troublesome. I can't think how in the world I got it, to tell the truth.
In truth, the little apartment was so near Agricola's garret, that he and the sempstress, listening, heard Dagobert say in the dark: "Agricola, is it thus that you sleep, my boy? Why, my first sleep is over; and my tongue itches deucedly." "Go quick, Agricola!" said Mother Bunch; "your absence would disquiet him.
There's a trickle of water running down my back, to begin with." "And my nose it itches; and oh, what a hateful smell! Say something to me, Jack." "My dear," said I, "there is one thing I've been longing these weeks to say: but this seems an odd place for it." "What is't?" I purs'd up my lips to the bunghole, and "I love you," said I.
But what have I to do with jewels, the very emblem of the folly of the world, the desire that itches in palms that know no good works, the price of sin!" She leaned against the masthead as she spoke, the wind blew her hair and her skirt out toward the following seas. With that look in her eyes she seemed a creature who had alighted on the ship but who could not stay.
"I'll sit down here as if it was only early candle-lighting, and let you tell me all about it." "How do you know I've got anything to say, Uncle Gideon?" "How do I know when a dog itches? I see him scratch. You have been sitting there in an itching silence and now you begin to scratch. You are more patient than a dog, for you don't scratch until you have itched for some time.
"'He hopes to attain to the Red Button and the Peacock's Feather; but the right hand of the Deity itches, and Li Ting will assuredly be removed suddenly. "'Li Ting must certainly be in league with the evil forces if he can withstand so powerful a weapon, said Ning admiringly, when her lover had finished reading.
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