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Updated: May 23, 2025
When I entered the gunroom, the first lieutenant, master, and purser, were sitting smoking and enjoying themselves over a glass of cold grog the gunner taking the watch on deck the doctor was piping any thing but mellifluously on the double flageolet, while the Spanish priest, and aide de camp to the general, were playing at chess, and wrangling in bad French.
The cluster of flor de noche buena blazed in great masses before the open glass doors of the reception rooms. A big green parrot, brilliant like an emerald in a cage that flashed like gold, screamed out ferociously, "Viva Costaguana!" then called twice mellifluously, "Leonarda! Leonarda!" in imitation of Mrs. Gould's voice, and suddenly took refuge in immobility and silence. Mrs.
I hurried over my midday meal, and was early forth again. But, alas, as we climbed the interminable hill upon the other side, "Proot!" seemed to have lost its virtue. I prooted like a lion, I prooted mellifluously like a sucking-dove; but Modestine would be neither softened nor intimidated. She held doggedly to her pace; nothing but a blow would move her, and that only for a second.
Tappan's paper, so mellifluously delivered, had wafted me! Mr. Spurgeon a short time since oracularly placed it on record that, having hitherto deemed Spiritualism humbug, he now believes it to be the devil. This sudden conversion is, of course, final; and I proceed to narrate a somewhat exceptional endorsement of the opinion which has recently occurred within my own experience.
"Jest give me time," beamed Captain Leezur, sounding mellifluously, "'n' I can row any Pointer ashore in an argyment 't ever was born yit. I takes a moderate little spall to dew it in. Forced-to-go " "Ye be a lazy, yarn-reelin' set, all on ye," said Captain Rafe, grinning with affection and delight on the group. "I'm going to have ye all posted and put on the teown!"
He was still thinking of these things, and prattling mellifluously of quite other things, when the Lolotte luffed up under the lee of the little island of Alcatraz. "What does this mean?" he asked, looking suspiciously at the fortifications, with the American flag waving over them.
"I don't believe it myself now," confessed Esmé, candidly. "But it felt most extremely like it at the time." "You know I don't at all approve of " "Of me. I know you don't, Jinny. Neither does he." "What did you do to him?" "Me? I cooed at him like a dove of peace. "But he was very stiff and proud He said, 'You needn't talk so loud," chanted Miss Esmé mellifluously. "He didn't!"
Handsome Susie knows what we want. And one ejaculated, mellifluously, 'Oh! and the other 'Ah! in flagrant derision of the foreign ways they produced in boorish burlesque a self-consolatory and a common trick of the boor. Caseldy was behind. He pushed forward and bowed to them. 'Sirs, will you mention to me what you want? He said it with a look that meant steel.
He imagined her overcome by his generosity. Another of his great effects had come off with tolerable success. 'Put your mind at rest, he pursued mellifluously. 'You shall suffer no hardships. I answer for it. Still mute, and her head bowed low. Such is the power of nobility displayed before an erring soul! 'You have never done me justice. Confess that you haven't!
Handsome Susie knows what we want. And one ejaculated, mellifluously, 'Oh! and the other 'Ah! in flagrant derision of the foreign ways they produced in boorish burlesque a self-consolatory and a common trick of the boor. Caseldy was behind. He pushed forward and bowed to them. 'Sirs, will you mention to me what you want? He said it with a look that meant steel.
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