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She persisted until she wrung from him the confession that he could remember one line, and she teased and teased him to repeat it until he said, "All right, if you must hear it, I suppose you must: 'Peggy, Peggy, long and leggy. It gets nicer as it goes on, but that's all I can remember." Peggy looked down at her long legs thoughtfully. The poem was a distinct shock.
Ferguson ain't on Macbeth. He's rode a bay mare that day, 'n' Rainbow has outrun 'n' out-jumped her. "'That's quite a horse you have there, Van, Ferguson says. 'A bit leggy isn't he? "'Perhaps he is, says Mr. Van. 'But I like something that can get over the country. "'Going to enter him for the cup? says Ferguson. "'I don't know yet, says Mr. Van, careless.
Champneys, who seemed to know no one but himself, and this established a measure of intimacy between them. "It occurs to me," said he, tentatively, "that it has been some time since I saw Florence. All of two or three years." They stood together by the railing, and she leaned forward the better to watch a leggy little girl with a brickdust-red pigtail in a group on the pier.
He taught them in debating-clubs the various modes of conducting irresponsible parliamentary chatter; and he tried to encourage pedestrianism and football to evolve their legs and bring them into something like harmony with their long pendant arms. You can still see a few of Sir George's leggy Baboos coiled up in corners of lecture-rooms at Calcutta. It is the future of Baboodom I tremble for.
The flowers are ivory-white, and produced in large umbels towards the end of autumn, but our early frosts too often mar their beauty. In this country it grows about 10 feet high, and is usually what is termed "leggy" in appearance, and thrives well in any good loamy soil if fairly dry. FENDLERA RUPICOLA. Mexico, 1888.
The Legion took a languid interest. This was some farmer from a hill valley bringing supplies to sell to the patriotic army. Would his wares turn out to be mescal or vegetables or perhaps a leggy steer that he had butchered? As he drew nearer it was to be seen that a crate hung from one side of the burro. In it were chickens. Balancing this, on the other side, were two gunnysacks.
"Yes; and now three cheers for Mr. M'Adam and his Red Wull! Hip! hip " "Hooray!" A little knowt of stalwarts at the back James Moore, Parson Leggy, Jim Mason, and you may be sure in heart, at least, Owd Bob responded to the call right lustily. The crowd joined in; and, once off, cheered and cheered again. "Three cheers more for Mr. M'Adam!" But the little man waved to them.
Parson Leggy, who was reckoned the best judge of a sheep or sheep-dog 'twixt Tyne and Tweed, summed him up in the one word "Genius." And James Moore himself, cautious man, was more than pleased. In the village, the Dalesmen, who took a personal pride in the Gray Dogs of Kenmuir, began to nod sage heads when "oor" Bob was mentioned.
"Yes?" said she, absently. The leggy girl had just thrust out her tongue at an expostulating nurse. She seemed to be a highly unpleasant child; one of those children of whom aunts speak as "poor Mary" or whatever their name may be. Anne Champneys, watching her, put her hand up and touched her own hair, that gleamed under her close-fitting black hat.
The Major sat beside his wife, and the Doctor and Captain Brentwood walked up and down, talking politics. There were also present, certain Hawbucks, leggy youths with brown faces and limp hair, in appearance and dress not unlike English steeplechaseriders who had been treated, on the face and hands, with walnut-juice.
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