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In fact, he'd mentioned this side line of his before. Barberin' for commuters left him more or less time for such enterprises. But it might have been Angora goats he was raisin', or water buffalo, or white mice. "You no lika da dogs, hey?" asks Joe, kind of hurt. "Eh?" says I, starin' critical into the mirror to see if he hadn't amputated more from the left side than the right. "Oh sure!
"You never would have thought anything'd grow on those trees." The young Italian who kept the store gave them a friendly grin. "You lika the olives?" he asked, putting some of the shining black fruit into their hands. Eda bit one dubiously with her long, white teeth, and giggled. "Don't they taste funny!" she exclaimed.
He looked eminently handsome in his Henry III. costume, and was disposed to be as luxurious as his original. He had brought Count Lika, Secretary of Legation to the Austrian Embassy, dressed as an Albanian, with him. The two were stretched on couches, and discoursing of my father's reintroduction of the sedan chair to society.
Don't imagine that I want to become a procurator; I want these works for my Sahalin book. I am going to direct my attack chiefly against life sentences, in which I see the root of all the evils; and against the laws dealing with exiles, which are fearfully out of date and contradictory. ALEXIN, May 17, 1891. Golden, mother-of-pearl, and fil d'Ecosse Lika!
Tesla's native place was Smiljan, Lika, where his father was an eloquent clergyman of the Greek Church, in which, by the way, his family is still prominently represented. His mother enjoyed great fame throughout the countryside for her skill and originality in needlework, and doubtless transmitted her ingenuity to Nikola; though it naturally took another and more masculine direction.
I told him of my interview with Beauchamp Hill. 'I have never known Kesensky wrong yet, said he; 'except in his backing of Falmouth's horses. Count Lika murmured that he hoped his Chief would be wrong in something else: he spoke significantly. My father raised his eyebrows.
"Yeh; fortune-tayer. Vay low common in China. Go roun' wif ole kine bad peoples. "Magistrate look jussa somma poh fortune-taye. Nen go on load an' trivvle trivvle vay far. Eve'y tem shee a man look lika somma bad man, try mek frien's wif him. But no can fine who mudder. Long tem trivvle 'way intehuh China; but no can fine anyone knows about dissa case.
You lika hea'? Magistrate say: 'We', I vay tire'. But lika hea' you talk better I lika go slip, my de-ah sir! Dissa mek highrob vay plou', an' he begin lika dis: "'One day shaw horse-carry-chair trivvle 'long load. Shaw feet stick out vay nice feet; mus' be lich man. So fonnow him. He hev big backage go' an' sivver, but eve'y tem go subbah mus' oleways shet hisse'f on top dissa backage.
"What's the matter, Tony?" inquired Bart of the perspiring baker, an Italian who had spent some years in the United States and who was generally liked by the boys of the old Thirty-seventh because of his customary good nature and his skill in compounding their favorite dishes. Tony looked up in despair. "I can't maka de dough," he complained. "I worka more dan hour. It lika de sand.
Day could attack the creature, a whining voice from the darkness behind the bear said: "Bread-butter, please, Signore Signora. Pietro no bite. He gooda bear. Give supper, please. Pietro lika bread-butter." The bear came down upon his forepaws, still whining. They could see, then, the chain by which a very dark man, with little gold rings in his ears, held the animal in leash.
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