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Luce. "Coming from the family exactly," answers Miss Newcome. Mr. Luce rose up from his old chair his worn-out old horsehair chair where he had sat for half a century and listened to many a speaker, very different from this one. "Mr. Pendennis," he said, "I envy you your journey along with this young lady.
The process of digestion with them, as with all reptiles, is very slow; hence they do not require such quantities of food as the warm-blooded animals mammals and birds. For instance, they bury themselves in the mud, and lie asleep during the whole winter without any food." "You say fish is their favourite food, Luce," said Basil; "now I think they are fonder of dogs than anything else.
"Had you just as soon come through the kitchen with me?" asked the Cap'n in a whisper as he approached his wife. "I'm goin' to do up what's left of that plum-duff and take it home. It kind o' hits my tooth!" Mr. Aholiah Luce, of the Purgatory Hollow section of Smyrna, stood at bay on the dirt-banking of his "castle," that is, a sagged-in old hulk of a house of which only the L was habitable.
On 4 April Von Hutier made a final attempt to reach Amiens, and drove the Allies out of the angle of the Luce and Avre and from the west bank of the latter back to a line running west of Castel, Mailly-Raineval, Sauvillers, Cantigny, and Mesnil St. Georges.
He cussed Luce somethin' fearful. An' when Luce went for his gun, natural-like, why this Jim Cleve took it away from him. An' then he jumped Luce. He knocked an' threw him around an' he near beat him to death before we could interfere. Luce was shore near dead. All battered up broken bones an' what-all I can't say. We put him to bed an' he's there yet, an' he'll never be the same man he was."
Luce, her worthy husband, a tall, lean, grizzled, well-brushed gentleman who wore a gold eye-glass and carried his hat a little too much on the back of his head, to mere platonic praise of the "distractions" of Paris they were his great word since you would never have guessed from what cares he escaped to them.
Drummer launched out on the infernal meanness of the Republican leaders, but by this time Luce was ready for him, and the way that poor devil was talked to would make you sorry. When he next saw his friend there came pretty near being a fight, but the friend thought it too good a joke to keep and told Luce. No one enjoyed a joke better than Mr.
On June thirtieth a special meeting was called for the purpose of considering bids for the erection of the building and hearing the report of a special committee, consisting of Messrs. Luce and Van Brunt, who had visited St. Louis to further the interests of the Commission in this matter.
And Maltravers raised his eyes, and once more beheld the countenance of Evelyn Cameron! Words of dark import gave suspicion birth. Luce. Is the wind there? That makes for me. Isab. Come, I forget a business. Wit without Money. LORD VARGRAVE'S travelling-carriage was at his door, and he himself was putting on his greatcoat in his library, when Lord Saxingham entered.
"I thought at first sight," continued he, "it was our Louisiana wild cat or bay lynx, as Luce calls it, for it is very like our cat; but I saw it was nearly twice as big, and more greyish in the fur. Well, when I first sighted the creature, it was about an hundred yards off.
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