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For this reason "Old Ephraim" as the trappers jocosely style the grizzly is usually permitted to go his way without molestation, and, therefore, instead of being thinned off by an exterminating chase such as is pursued against the buffalo, or even the black bear, whose robe is marketable the grizzly maintains his numerical strength in most places where he is found.
'Slave, as you are, young alas! scarce more than child! accomplished, beautiful with the most touching beauty, innocent as an angel all these qualities that should disarm the very wolves and crocodiles, are, in the eyes of those to whom I stand indebted, commodities to buy and sell. You are a chattel; a marketable thing; and worth heavens, that I should say such words! worth money.
He plucks "copy" from rising and setting suns. He sees marketable pathos in his friend's death-bed. He carries the peal of his daughter's marriage-bells into his sentences or his rhymes; and in these the music sounds sweeter to him than in the sunshine and the wind. If originally of a meditative, introspective mood, his profession can hardly fail to confirm and deepen his peculiar temperament.
After all, Tono-Bungay is still a marketable commodity and in the hands of purchasers, who bought it from among other vendors me. No! Cocks their tails. Modern touch! There you are!" He reverted to the direction of our lunch.
The exchange of shifts between the shop and school would occur daily or weekly or semi-weekly, as it was conducive to the health and the intellectual experience of the children and to the needs of production in the organization of the shop. The workshop would be devoted to the production of some marketable article or articles which are simple in construction.
The canvas was at once removed out of sight. At the sale of his works, on the death of the painter, his son changed the name of the picture to 'Jupiter Pluvius, under which more marketable guise it soon found a purchaser. On the 7th of June 1775, Romney arrived again in England: his return being celebrated by glowing strains from Cumberland's ready muse.
And they shall sell us their honour, love, and whatever else they have marketable, and on the day of Judgment we four will see whose bag is fullest of their commodities. 'Tis the only way to settle the dispute. And in the end all shall come to me. "And the three said: 'And who are you, Madam? "And says she: 'With my black spade I dig the earth where all shall lie.
He hadn't a piece of real estate that was not covered with mortgages, even to the wild tract which Philip was experimenting on, and which had, no marketable value above the incumbrance on it. He had come home that day early, unusually dejected. "I am afraid," he said to his wife, "that we shall have to give up our house. I don't care for myself, but for thee and the children."
Your husband don't know this here story; you don't want him to know it, and you come down handsomely and I'll keep your secret." "You have rather spoiled your marketable commodity, then, Mr. Parmalee. It would have paid you better not to have shared your secret with Sybilla Silver." "She's told you, has she?" said the artist, rather surprised. "Now that's what I call mean.
Nay, apart from spiritualities; and considering him merely as a real, marketable, tangibly-useful possession. England, before long, this Island of ours, will hold but a small fraction of the English: in America, in New Holland, east and west to the very Antipodes, there will be a Saxondom covering great spaces of the Globe.
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