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It is rent in deep fissures, which would prove, according to competent authority, that the explosive materials used are good. 'The Austrians fired away all their bad shells during preliminary actions, was the comment of a young staff officer who is in the habit of recording the efficiency of enemy shells. But it is quantity as well as quality which the enemy is relying upon.
Now other artificial matter tools set to work at Arcot's bidding, and cut pieces from his huge masses of raw materials, and literally, quick as thought, built a great framework of them, anchored in the solid rock of the planetoid.
She added a command to bring two cups of bouillon and some rusks. A while later she stood with a cup in her hand at her mother's door. "May I come in?" She held her ear to the door; there was no answer. Her lids blinked anxiously; she repeated the question, adding: "Mamma, I beg " "Come in, Ira!" Covered with silken materials Malvina was like a glittering wave on the bed.
And in this state of things came Christianity: seized upon the arch as her own; decorated it, and delighted in it; invented a new Doric capital to replace the spoiled Roman one: and all over the Roman empire set to work, with such materials as were nearest at hand, to express and adorn herself as best she could.
Then I also enjoyed the work in the pot-culture laboratory, where we learned not to analyze but to synthesize; that is, to put different materials together to make a soil.
Miss Matty and Miss Pole talked and thought more about bonnets, gowns, caps, and shawls, during the fortnight that succeeded this call, than I had known them do for years before. But it might be the spring weather, for it was a warm and pleasant March; and merinoes and beavers, and woollen materials of all sorts were but ungracious receptacles of the bright sun's glancing rays.
The dressing-table was furnished with ivory-backed brushes and mirrors, and there was a charming little work-table with sewing materials of all kinds. An open desk showed every kind of writing-implement, made of ivory or cut-glass, and the blotting-pad was pale green.
I am not rash enough to say that I have never misread a word, or overlooked a passage of importance. I profess only to have dealt with my materials honestly to the best of my ability. I submit myself to a formal trial, of which I am willing to bear the entire expense, on one condition-that the report, whatever it be, shall be published word for word in The Saturday Review."
Little Yi knelt down and spread her materials on the bench, while An Ching stood ready to sit down on the letter in case Hung Li or his mother came. Little Yi could only make a few characters, and had never written a letter, but she began boldly with a beautiful 'we. 'Can not come, said Nelly. 'I can't make "can," said Little Yi; so she wrote 'not' and as much as she could remember of 'come.
The two interviews just passed had given Ma Sampson sufficient time to complete her household duties. And now she entered her parlor, the pride of her home. She came in quite unaware of Seth's presence there. But when she observed him at the table with his writing materials spread out before him, she paused. "Oh," she exclaimed, "I didn't know you were writin', Seth!"
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