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"His soul is in my charge," sighed the good priest, "and I cannot even make him hear what I have got to say. A heavy reckoning will be demanded of me!" "The sermons are in fault, beyond a doubt," the Kyrkegrim said. "The farmer's wife is quite right. She's a sensible woman, and can use a mop as well as myself." "Hoot, hoot!" cried the church owl, pushing his head out of the ivy-bush.
"Thunder and damnation!" he exclaimed, as he strode away after the encounter; "'tis the ugliest yet. A yellow-faced girl brat, with eyes like an owl's in an ivy-bush, and with a voice like a very peacocks. Another mawking, plain slut that no man will take off my hands." He did not see her again for six years.
Formerly an ivy-bush was a common tavern sign, and gave rise to the familiar proverb, "Good wine needs no bush," this plant having been selected probably from having been sacred to Bacchus. "For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears." There are many proverbs associated with the oak.
The next morning was sunny, but frosty and very cold. Before leaving the ivy-bush, our Blackbird ate a few of the dark berries which clustered thickly around him. They were not, perhaps, quite so good as the holly or hawthorn berries, but still they were better than nothing at all.
When he had pulled it down over the end of his nose, and peeped through it, like an owl out of an ivy-bush, he might be supposed to part with it voluntarily, and not because he was laughed at. Phil's observation of his brother's toil and trouble led him to give him some help. Almost every day he would hear Hugh say his lesson or try to say it; for the poor boy seldom succeeded.
The King, God bless him! doesn't see it, Thord, glowering like an owl in his ivy-bush of hair, doesn't see it! It is only left to me to perceive the chief result of this evening's disclosures!" All the men laughed. "What is it, Zouche?" demanded Louis Valdor. "Ay! What is it?" echoed Zegota.
His ascent being unluckily a little out of the perpendicular, he descended with a proportionate curve from the apex of his projection, and alighted not on the wall of the tower, but in an ivy-bush by its side, which, giving way beneath him, transferred him to a tuft of hazel at its base, which, after upholding him an instant, consigned him to the boughs of an ash that had rooted itself in a fissure about half way down the rock, which finally transmitted him to the waters below.
Hugh did not part with his hair till he had joked himself about its length, as much as any one could quiz him for it. When he had pulled it down over the end of his nose, and peeped through it, like an owl out of an ivy-bush, he might be supposed to part with it voluntarily, and not because he was laughed at. Phil's observation of his brother's toil and trouble led him to give him some help.
He got off my table and, looking up at the ceiling, cocked his beard a little awry; at the same time making it stick out before him. 'Adoration, or a vow of vengeance, he observed. He turned his profile to me, making his upper lip very bulky with the upper part of his beard. 'Romantic character, said he. He looked sideways out of his beard, as if it were an ivy-bush. 'Jealousy, said he.
"The woman or maid, to call her by her proper title was a dark-browed slut, wi' eyes like sloes, an' hair dragged over her face till she looked like an owl in an ivy-bush. As for the gown o' her, 'twas no better'n a sack tied round the middle, wi' a brave piece torn away by the shoulder, where one o' the men had clawed her.
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