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Whose mind's so marbled, and his heart so hard, That would not, when this huge mishap was heard, To th' utmost note of sorrow set their song, To see a gallant, with so great a grace, So suddenly unthought on, so o'erthrown, And so to perish, in so poor a place, By too rash riding in a ground unknown! POEM, IN NISBET'S Heraldry, vol. ii.
At the time when this history begins Tonsard, then about fifty years of age, tall and strong, rather stout than thin, with curly black hair, skin highly colored and marbled like a brick with purple blotches, yellow whites to the eyes, large ears with broad flaps, a muscular frame, encased, however, in flabby flesh, a retreating forehead, and a hanging lip, Tonsard, such as you see him, hid his real character under an external stupidity, lightened at times by a show of experience, which seemed all the more intelligent because he had acquired in the company of his father-in-law a sort of bantering talk, much affected by old Fourchon and Vermichel.
L'Encuerado pointed out many plants of the lynx flower, called by the Indians the serpent-flower, the fine petals of which are dotted with yellow spots, and marbled with pink, violet, and white. Farther on, another flower, the tiger-lily, reminded us, by its color, of the animal from which it takes its name.
My mother bade me ask if you had a fine marble cloth, about five shillings the ell, for a bettermost gown for her." Mrs Clere spoke a little less crossly, but with a weary air. "Marbled cloth's not so much worn as it was," she said; "but I have a fair piece that may serve your turn. It's more nor that, though. I couldn't let it go under five and eightpence."
The fourth bill added to the budget fresh taxes one on marbled paper; one on hackney coaches, fixed at the number of eight hundred in London, and taxed at a sum equal to fifty-two francs yearly each; one on barristers, attorneys, and solicitors, at forty-eight francs a year a head; one on tanned skins, notwithstanding, said the preamble, the complaints of the workers in leather; one on soap, notwithstanding the petitions of the City of Exeter and of the whole of Devonshire, where great quantities of cloth and serge were manufactured; one on wine at four shillings; one on flour; one on barley and hops; and one renewing for four years "the necessities of the State," said the preamble, "requiring to be attended to before the remonstrances of commerce" tonnage-dues, varying from six francs per ton, for ships coming from the westward, to eighteen francs on those coming from the eastward.
One brilliant afternoon, as she lay on the broad, cane-bottomed bedstead with its overhanging canopy of filmy netting, she drowsily heard the corporal posting the new sentry in the marbled corridor below, and then marching the relief to the rear gate opening to the beach. Nita was already up and moving about in her room.
Winona pecked at her father's marbled cheeks, then led him to the chair. "Father, this is my husband." "How do you do, sir?" began the judge, heavily. Spike's left forearm shielded his face, while his right hand went to meet the judge's. "It's all right, Spike. No one else is going to kiss you." "Spike?" queried the judge, uncertainly. "It's a sort of nickname for him," explained Winona.
"In some way," Holati Tate said, "this little item here seems to be at the core of the whole plasmoid problem. Know what it is?" Trigger looked at the little item with some revulsion. Dark green, marbled with pink streakings, it lay on the table between them, rather like a plump leech a foot and a half long.
On a blank leaf was the following, written in a very delicate and careful hand: Presented to . . . by . . . On the eve ere her union in holy matrimony. May sunshine ever beam o'er her! Even the poor relative thought she must do something, and sent a copy of "The Whole Duty of Man," bound in very attractive variegated sheepskin, the edges nicely marbled.
"Wet sands marbled with moon and cloud" "Flits by the sea-blue bird of March" "Leafless ribs and iron horns" "When the long dun wolds are ribbed with snow" in all these cases one word is the keystone of an arch which would fall into ruin without it.
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