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"Stiffen them up!" cried the colonel. As he rode away a colour-sergeant seemed to trip, and fell forward into a mimosa bush. He made no effort to rise, but lay in a heap among the thorns. "Sergeant O'Rooke's gone, sorr," cried a voice. "Never mind, lads," said Captain Foley. "He's died like a soldier, fighting for his Queen." "Down with the Queen!" shouted a hoarse voice from the ranks.
Her manner was generally thought too reserved; indeed she was considered cold, and called 'the fair Mimosa, In music we have an expressive term, 'calm but impassioned, and this I deem an appropriate conception for the portrait of Cécile." Mendelssohn was so surprised at the depth of the impression the young girl had made upon him that he was worried.
We walked up from the beach to the house. Roses in full flower, and mimosa with a delicate golden flower, and various other shrubs and flowers in full bloom. Midwinter, recollect. Here I was, all at once, carrying up baggage, Maoris before and behind, and everything new and strange, and yet I felt as if it were all right and natural. The Bishop and Mrs.
"I want no better," she answered. "Have you not lived here all these years?" "Adam called you Queen. You should have a palace " "If I am Queen, then you must be a King. I think it is a lovely palace. What is that tree by the gate all feathery pink?" "A mimosa. Mr. Jefferson gave it to me. It is like you it does not belong on the Three-Notched Road.
Presently he stopped, and uttering an exclamation, threw aside the hands of the young Indians and dashed forward. We followed, when, what was our horror to see, under a grove of mimosa bushes, Arthur in the grasp of a huge serpent, which had wound its coils round his body. I shrieked with dismay, for I thought he was dead. He moved neither hand nor foot, seemingly unconscious of what had occurred.
Flowers to begin with, heaps of them; she liked violets for one thing, and by hook or by crook he would get a little wattle or mimosa to remind her of Africa. Then chocolates and cigarettes, both must never be lacking, and a few books no, not books, magazines; and he would have some wine sent up. What else? Biscuits; after the theatre they might be jolly. Ah, the theatre! he must book seats.
Bark from the roots of trees and shrubs is roasted, and then pounded between two stones for use. Gums exude from the trees on which they are procured. These are generally varieties of the Mimosa. Manna exudes in great abundance from the tree already mentioned, as constituting the firewood which the natives use in fishing by night.
It then ascended into a higher elevation, and led through a forest of mparamusi, tamarind, tamarisk, acacia, and the blooming mimosa. This ascent was continued for two hours, when we stood upon the spine of the largest ridge, where we could obtain free views of the wooded plain below and the distant ridges of Kisemo, which we had but lately left.
While gazing at the lofty plane, sycamore, and mimosa trees which surrounded the old scholar's home, the quiet square below him suddenly became astir with noisy life, for all classes of the populace were gathering in front of the sequestered house, as if some unusual spectacle attracted them. What could they want of the secluded philosopher?
Our path was exceedingly difficult to traverse, leading chiefly among low trees and over the sharp stones that had rolled from the river, now close by the noisy stream, which babbled and foamed as if it had gone mad, now creeping on our knees through bushes, matted with thick, twining vines, now wading across an open morass, now in mimosa woods, or slipping in and out of the feathery dhelb-palms.
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