United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Their being so new and so recent was all in their disfavour; that you could tolerate nothing that you were not used to; and a great deal more to the same purpose, to give them a knowledge of your character. Miss Crawford made us laugh by her plans of encouragement for her brother.
"Offer it to any idol that pleases thee," said Abraham, with a laugh. The woman placed it before the smallest idol. "This idol is small and surly," said the boy. "It does not accept thy offering," and he raised his stick and smashed it. "Try a bigger idol with thy offering," he said, and the woman did so.
We'd have been all running about in a big Garden of Eden with nothing on, and nothing to do except loaf, and make love, and lark, and laugh, and play practical jokes on each other." Joe grinned. "That would have been glorious. Wouldn't it, Joe? There'd have been no 'sex problem' then." The Master's Mistake
"Plunkitt tells me that they really laugh at each other in the moonlight," he said. She glanced up; then away from him: "You seem to be enamoured of the moonlight," she said. "I like to prowl in it." "Alone?" "Sometimes." "And at other times?" He laughed: "Oh, I'm past that, as you reminded me a moment ago." "Then you did misunderstand me!" "Why, no " "Yes, you did! But I supposed you knew."
"Your father you knew him well?" "No, but I remember him a tall, dark man, with a smile always in his eyes and a laugh on his lips. I was brought up at a school in Winnipeg under a priest. Two or three times in the year my father used to appear for a few days. I remember well the last time I saw him. I was about thirteen years old.
"Oh, yes they will!" said the odd man. "I'll take good care that they believe it." "If any one say it not so, you tell me!" broke Koku, shaking his huge fist. "No, I guess I'd better keep still," said Tom, with a laugh.
Vivian colored; but before he could answer, one of the loungers, as the group recovered from the gay laugh which their companion's easy coxcombry had excited, said,
"And there was a goose on the table," he says; and, looking stern at me, "Don't laugh yet!" says he, like thunder. Well, he goes on: "Mr. George caught my eye across the table, and said, so as not to be heard by his uncle, 'If that bird was rampant, you would see your own arms, Marquis." And Mel replied, quietly for him to hear, "And as that bird is couchant, Mr.
She stopped herself abruptly. "Oh, well," she continued with a laugh, "you have got to know us. Father is trying. He loves experiments, and a woman hates experiments. Last year it was bare feet. I daresay it is healthier. But children who have been about in bare feet all the morning well, it isn't pleasant when they sit down to lunch; I don't care what you say. You can't be always washing.
Edoardo's little speech was so ingenuous, and, what is more, so true to his Italian temperament, that it made us all laugh and leave the argument just where we found it.
Word Of The Day