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He led Roebuck on to show off this peculiarity of his, a jumbling, often in the same breath, of the most sonorous piety and the most shameless business perfidy. All the time Woodruff's face was perfectly grave, there are some men who refuse to waste any of their internal enjoyment in external show.
Do look, my dear father." "They are, indeed," replied old Hornblow, delighted at the happy face of his daughter; "but I should like some tea, Susan I am not used to so much jumbling. I feel tired, and shall go to bed early." Tea was accordingly prepared; soon after which, the old gentleman rose to retire.
Even "Clog." jumbling Voltaire's undated LETTERS into confusion thrice confounded, and droning out vituperatively in the dark, becomes a MINUS quantity in these Friedrich affairs. "Saxon STEUER-SCHEIN, some readers know, is, in the rough, equivalent to Exchequer Bill.
Bruce stormed and swore all sorts of destruction upon himself if he was going to change his style of life for any man. The others followed The Duke's lead. That Sunday was a day of incongruities. The Old and the New, the East and the West, the reverential Past and iconoclastic Present were jumbling themselves together in bewildering confusion.
'Oh dear, no, returned Lady Betty, jumbling her words as though she found my question embarrassing. 'Etta never objects openly to anything we do, only she throws stumbling-blocks in our way. I do not know why I have got it into my head that she would not like Gladys or me to come here without her, but it is there all the same, the idea, I mean; it was something she said the other night to Mrs.
He had ideas to shoot across future Ages; provide against the shrinkage of our Coal-beds; against, and for, if you like, the thickening, jumbling, threatening excess of population in these Islands, in Europe, America, all over our habitable sphere. Now that Mrs.
I slept; and my mind jumbling the springhouse, the orioles, the dead boy and his strange tale, whispered that my little king and queen of the hanging nest were Santa and Nefert. Thereafter I called them as the dream had said. The little nestlings grew apace and the nest made tight quarters. One, seeking room and adventure, climbed out and perched upon a twig.
In the second campaign, the English gained a considerable victory at Verneuil, in a battle which was chiefly remarkable, otherwise, for their resorting to the odd expedient of tying their baggage-horses together by the heads and tails, and jumbling them up with the baggage, so as to convert them into a sort of live fortification which was found useful to the troops, but which I should think was not agreeable to the horses.
Lady Wathin felt herself empowered by Quintin Manx to undertake the release of sweet Constance Asper's knight from the toils of his enchantress. For this purpose she had first an interview with Mr. Warwick, and next she hurried to Lady Dunstane at Copsley. There, after jumbling Mr. Warwick's connubial dispositions and Mrs. Warwick's last book, and Mr. Percy Dacier.
Elsewhere there were people waiting, eating buns out of paper bags, and here in the shop the sun lighted the backs of rows of second-hand novels and down in Treliss the water was, very gently, lapping the little wooden jetty. Oh! the silly jumbling of things in this silly jumbling world! And then he began to look more closely into it as it concerned himself. He saw with amazing clearness.
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