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Updated: May 31, 2025


To press flowers, gather them when dry, not quite full-blown, and before the sun has faded them; press them between sheets of botanical-paper, change and dry the latter constantly. 2. You can draw an outline upon a mirror with red pencil and Indian ink. It is better, however, to mark the design through tracing-paper with a knitting-needle.

"What is this all to be about?" said she, recovering her knitting-needle. "About love, and toil, and duty, and sorrow," said I. My aunt laid down her knitting, looked at me over the rim of her spectacles, and took snuff. I said nothing. "How many times have you been in love, Isaac?" said she. It was now my turn to say, "Pshaw!"

The reason why it gives rise to so much trouble is that it is so small scarcely larger than will admit a knitting-needle and so twisted upon itself that germs or other poisonous substances swallowed with the food may get into it, start a swelling or inflammation, get trapped in there by the closing of the narrow mouth of the tube, and form an abscess, which leaks through, or bursts into, the cavity of the body, called the peritoneum.

But what course shall we pursue with Mary Ann, and Julia Ann, and Anna Maria? They all bite their finger nails bite 'em down to the double-quick." "I would sejest, sejest why don't you give those children some proxitude of iron, my dear through a knitting-needle? Hark!" continued she, as Prudy scratched the top of the tent with her forefinger. "There's a mouse in this house, Mr.

It is of the utmost necessity to have the proportions and the main masses settled at this early stage, and every device of blocking out with square lines and measuring with your knitting-needle, &c., should be adopted to ensure the accuracy of these large proportions. The variations and emphases that feeling may dictate can be done in the painting stage.

"What have you been doing to this little child?" Nancy came out, with her fingers in her mouth, but did not speak. "Answer me; did you drop a toad into Prudy's mouth?" "Yes," replied Nancy, sulkily; "but she stuck a knitting-needle into my ear fust!" "For shame, you wicked child," said Miss Parker. "Take up that toad, Nancy, and carry it out of doors; then come to me, for I must punish you."

Child, come and look for the needle; don't be sticking there in that corner." I thought proper to obey the order and pretended to be very diligent in my search. Catching aunt Milly's eye, I pointed to the knitting-needle sticking in the hind skirts of my grandmother's gown, and then was down on my knees again, while my aunt held her handkerchief to her mouth to check her laughter.

"He had not even a knitting-needle." "But he paid your ransom?" "He said two words to the chief and I was free." "And they apologized to him for having carried you off?" said Beauchamp. "Just so." "Why, he is a second Ariosto." "No, his name is the Count of Monte Cristo." "There is no Count of Monte Cristo" said Debray.

The sheep fed as if they were not to have another bite for a week, and bleated without ceasing, strange birds flew across the sky in hurrying flocks, and in all the country houses and farmers' halls the old-fashioned barometers, with their dials almost as big as our eight-day clocks and pointers as long as a knitting-needle, began to fall, or rather to go backwards, further than was ever recorded.

It was the very thing to vex your father that you should have put yourself in such a position. 'Bearding the Northwold bench with a groundsel plume and a knitting-needle: 'With a needle for a sword, and a thimble for a hat, Wilt thou fight a traverse with the Castle cat? The proper champion in such a cause, since 'What cat's averse to fish?

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