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"If it is possible, it is done," the comptroller would say to applicants; "if it is impossible, it will get done." The captivation was general, the blindness seemed to be so likewise; a feverish impulse carried people away into all newfangled ways, serious or frivolous.
Our daughter and a young man smart enough to make himself from a celluloid collar-cutter to a millionaire five times over on a little thing like inventing a newfangled film-substance should tie up with the only child of Rudolph Pelz, the picture king." "I give you my word, Rosie, such talk makes me sick." "You'd hate it, wouldn't you? A prince like David Feist."
These benches were for the little fellows who did not write, and for others when the cold should drive them nearer the stove. The very worshipful master sat at the east end of the room, at one side of the door; there was a blackboard a "newfangled notion" in 1850 at the other side of the door.
"A Henderson grant!" cried the Major; "'tis so much worthless paper." "I reckon it's good enough fer me," answered Tom. "It come from those who blazed their way out here and druv the redskins off. I don't know nothin' about this newfangled law, but 'tis a queer thing to my thinkin' if them that fit fer a place ain't got the fust right to it."
And they made the old captain pull down the light that he had been burning steady and true, and the Government sot up that thar newfangled thing a flashing by clockwork on Numbskull Nob. It did make the old man hot, sure. 'Shet the window, mate, he said to me when he was dying and wanted air badly.
He acceded, but unwillingly, for it was an innovation on the habits of a lifetime, and he felt as if he should never be able to arrange his rounds aright with this newfangled notion of a six o'clock dinner. 'Don't get any dainties for me, my dear; bread and cheese is the chief of my diet, like it was that of the old woman's.
It's findin' it the gold in the mountains that makes the blood run fast through my gizzard. After I've found it, I can't find any use for it in particular. I want to go broke. If I didn't, I'd get lazy and fat, an' some newfangled doctor would operate on me, and I'd die. They're doing a lot of that operatin' down in Frisco, Alan.
Among the men, who were, however, disposed to view the matter as a boys' fancy which would soon die away, the movement met with slight approval. Newfangled notions were held in but low estimation among the miners of Stokebridge. They had got on wi'out larning, and saw no reason why t' lads could not do as they had done.
After two months of hard work, all questions of franchise had been settled, rating and renting, new and newfangled, fancy franchises and those which no one fancied, franchises for boroughs and franchises for counties, franchises single, dual, three-cornered, and four-sided, by various clauses to which the Committee of the whole House had agreed after some score of divisions, the matter of the franchise had been settled.
And I say, Sir, perhaps, as no doubt you have been living in town, and know more of newfangled notions than I do, perhaps you can tell us whether or not it is all humbug, that new way of doctoring people." LEONARD. "What new way, sir. There are so many." SQUIRE. "Are there? Folks in London do look uncommonly sickly. PARSON. "Homoeopathist." SQUIRE. "That's it.
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