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Updated: June 4, 2025
Truly, as the Indian says, "hunger is a very big man." At these feasts a drum, made by stretching a serpent's skin over one of their clay pots, is loudly beaten, and the thigh-bone of an ostrich, with key-holes burned in, is a common musical instrument.
Ah, sir, it is all the same, very strange!" "What is strange?" "What I heard Madame Gerdy say to M. Noel." "Ah ha! my girl!" sneered old Tabaret; "so you listen at key-holes, do you?" "No, sir, I assure you; but madame cried out like one lost. She said, " "My girl!" interrupted old Tabaret severely, "one always hears wrong through key-holes. Ask Manette if that is not so."
They had now first of all to get the shrouds on one side cut through, so that the mast might come to the surface alongside instead of disturbing the balance of the boat below; and then they must climb up on the swaying bottom of the boat and stave in the key-holes, to let out the air which kept the boat too high in the water, and so ease her.
These, with a mustang poet or two from Oregon, a few Hard-Shell Democrats, a live American daily paper, with a corps of reporters trained to squeeze themselves through door-cracks and key-holes, might retrieve the national honor, if shown up realistically and artistically. Of course, we are not to be understood as intimating that Macaulay was consciously or otherwise guilty of a plagiarism.
It is strange that his favourite amongst all his pupils was the one whose style least resembled his own Gerard Douw he who aimed at the most excessive minuteness of delineation, who stopped key-holes lest a particle of dust should fall on his palette, who gloried in representing the effects of fresh scouring on the side of a kettle. Rembrandt died in 1674, at the age of sixty-eight.
The mother, if she suspected that any prohibited frolic was likely to be carried on, at a late hour, would tell her daughters that she was going to bed, and would shut herself up for a couple of hours in her bed-room, and then steal out eavesdropping, peeping through key-holes and listening at door-handles; and the daughters, knowing their mother's practice, would not come forth till the listening and peeping had been completed, and till they had ascertained, by some infallible means, that the old woman was between the sheets.
The mistake in my father, was in attacking my mother's motive, instead of the act itself; for certainly key-holes were made for other purposes; and considering the act, as an act which interfered with a true proposition, and denied a key-hole to be what it was it became a violation of nature; and was so far, you see, criminal.
They were not doors, for they had no hinges, yet beneath each one was a small semi-circular hole in the iron into which I could just thrust my little finger. These were certainly not key-holes, but rather, it seemed, intended to admit air.
"Possibly because they love notoriety," said Kelly, "and they think if they call for more often enough, he will finally peep in at their key-holes and write them up. If he ever puts me into one of his books I'll waylay him at night and amputate his writing-hand." "He won't," said the Professor.
At length, the old man pronounced his name, and inquired how he came there. 'Through the door, said Quilp pointing over his shoulder with his thumb. 'I'm not quite small enough to get through key-holes. I wish I was. I want to have some talk with you, particularly, and in private. With nobody present, neighbour. Good-bye, little Nelly.
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