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Updated: May 31, 2025
'Just compare the difference in our lives! I fly here, I fly there, now on this flower, now on that. Ah, mine is a glorious life! nothing but pleasure and excitement all the livelong day. Confess, now, would you not like to be me? 'No, she answered, with the utmost sincerity; 'I am so happy here, I would not change my lot even for a career so brilliant as yours.
Whenever there was any hard work to be done, it was put upon the old man's daughter she was obliged to get dry wood from the forest, drag the heavy sacks of grain to the mill; in short, every task always fell to her lot. The whole livelong day she had no rest, but was kept continually going up stairs and down.
Thou wendest forth at the call to dawn prayer and thou returnest not till sundown; and through the livelong day thou endurest all manner hardships; to wit, beating and belabouring and bad language.
"Oh, I am!" declared Alec; "and I reckon the chances are three to one Aunt Susan is going to enjoy this delightful quiet up here, where not even the squawk of a crow, or the, crow of a squawking rooster can be heard the livelong day. Still, somehow I seem to feel a queer sense of oppression bearing down on me.
I did not at all enjoy the prospect of knocking about the whole day amongst coal-sheds and unfinished houses, with the alternative refuge of the inn, which was swarming with flies and redolent of many evil smells; so I thought I would find some conveyance and drive over, for the distance was not great. If there is anything I hate, it is waiting the livelong day for a railway train.
From an Asiatic's standpoint, nothing could be more desirable than my present circumstances; with nothing to do but lay around and be waited on, generous meals three times daily, sweetmeats to nibble and tea to drink the whole livelong day; conscious of requiring rest and generous diet all this, however, is anything but satisfactory in view of the reflection that the fine spring weather is rapidly passing away, and that every day ought to see me forty or fifty miles nearer the Pacific Coast.
"It is a great blessing to be allowed to see a miracle performed with your own eyes." "So it is," agreed John. "And if you keep your eyes well open, there's not a minute of the livelong day when you mayn't see one." "It is very strange," said Annunziata, "but when the sun shines, then I love the sunny weather, and am glad that it does not rain.
That settled it, since there could be no going behind the returns when a majority favored any move. Accordingly, they made preparations for passing the night as the conditions best allowed. "Of course, we must have sentries posted to keep watch?" remarked Jack. "All through the livelong night. They will have to be changed every hour; and four can be on guard at a time.
Wait awhile till I go down and call them, and we will eat and drink together the livelong night. Happy am I, to whom Heaven sends so many guests at once! And he ran back down the hill, waving his hand and shouting, to the merchants, while Theseus went slowly up the steep pass. But as he went up he met an aged man, who had been gathering drift- wood in the torrent-bed.
Abraham could never leave the presence of his future daughter and in her presence could never cease to flatter her, and to grow disgusting in his lavish praises of his son. "When I first saw you, my dear lady," said the greedy banker, "I had but one thought on my mind that livelong day.
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