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Updated: May 17, 2025
I happened to mention to a bootmaker at Durrington that my left heel had become jarred with walking. He recommended me to try rubber heels to lessen the strain, and he put them on for me. I had never worn them before, and found them very uncomfortable when I was walking along the marshes. They seemed to hold and stick in the wet ground."
"Lessen a month," replied Scraggy, "and ye'll kiss the brat, and he'll call ye 'Daddy, and he'll love ye like I do, Lemmy dear." Lem was rigid, as the woman smoothed down his shaggy gray hair and patted his hard face. Suddenly he started to his feet. "Ye say, Scraggy, that ye'll bring the boy lessen a month?" "Yep, lessen a month. And, Lemmy, he be a beautiful baby!
That does not lessen the effectiveness of the blow which his doctrine dealt to French feudalism, and which is its main title to commemoration in connection with his name.
To many the accidents of wealth, of youth, of beauty, seem to open the perspective of a brilliant future at the very moment when all the present appears to be shrouded in darkness; but if you will permit me, who know you so little, to say it frankly, I do not believe that any of these things which you possess in such plentiful abundance will lessen the measure of your grief.
It did not lessen as she stood watching the struggle the two men had in again hitching to the buggy the wild black horse. Seizing the tug with one hand and the singletree with the other, Franklin fairly swept the obdurate beast off its balance as he forced it to its place at the pole. His strength was apparent. "Are you afraid to ride behind that horse?" asked he.
Cecil's tongue refused to utter what oppressed her heart those evenings beside the sofa, those eager home expeditions for Sunday, the uniform maintenance of his mother's supremacy. "And you think absence from her would lessen her influence?" "I am sure of it. There might be a struggle, but if I know Mr.
In order to lighten the loads and make room for more water, even the ammunition was limited to 100 rounds per rifle. The daily consumption of water was restricted to one pint for men, six gallons for horses, and five for mules. To lessen the thirst caused by the heat Colonel Kitchener decided to march by night. An advanced depot was formed at Gedid and food for two days accumulated there.
We never get to where we cannot lessen our pressure and thus increase our power. The very interest of using less pressure adds zest to our work, however it may have seemed like drudging before, and the possibility of resting while we work opens to us much that is new and refreshing, and gives us clearer understanding of how to rest more completely while we rest.
They alleged that, if she would risk a war with Great Britain by openly espousing their cause, she would not be induced to that measure by the prospect of direct advantages, so much as by a desire to lessen the overgrown power of a dangerous rival.
"But Jacob, here," said grandma, "is not a deacon of the church." "That doesn't lessen my enjoyment of the dinner," said the elder. "No," said Grandma Thorndyke dryly, "I suppose not. But now let us talk seriously. This child" taking Virginia's hand "is the girl they were searching for back there along the road." "Ah," said the elder.
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