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Shovel was as quick as Corp was deliberate, and would have danced round him, putting in unexpected ones, but if he had remained just one moment too long within Corp's reach They nicknamed him Corp because he took fits, when he lay like one dead. He was proud of his fits, was Corp, but they were a bother to him, too, because he could make so little of them.
Mercédès the real Mercédès nearly restored to health and spirits by her run with us through splendid air and scenery, is to unveil her charms this evening at dinner. You have irreverently nicknamed her the Perpetual Mushroom. To-night, you will see but you don't deserve to be told what you will see, if you haven't the curiosity to find out at the first opportunity for yourself."
Her father, a laborer from Saint Laurent du Pont, was nicknamed Le Fosseur, which is no doubt a contraction of fossoyeur, for the office of sexton had been in his family time out of mind. All the sad associations of the graveyard hang about the name.
After ballasting his ship with silver from the rich Potosi mines, and rifling even the churches, he hastened onward in pursuit of a richly laden galleon nicknamed Cacafuego a name discreetly translated Spitfire, but which, to repeat a joke that greatly amused Drake's men at the time, it was proposed to change to Spitsilver, for when overtaken and captured the vessel yielded 26 tons of silver, 13 chests of pieces of eight, and gold and jewels sufficient to swell the booty to half a million pounds sterling.
And on the other hand, we have known a black-bearded backwoodsman, whose mere voice and presence would quell any riot among the lumberers, yet this man, nicknamed by his employees "the black devil," confessed himself to be in secret the most timid of lambs.
The goat's-beard, prompt his rise to hail, With broad expanded disk, in veil Close mantling wraps its yellow head, And goes, as peasants say, to bed." The dandelion has been nicknamed the peasant's clock, its flowers opening very early in the morning; while its feathery seed-tufts have long been in requisition as a barometer with children:
Anton was succeeded by his brother Nicolaus, surnamed or nicknamed the Magnificent, and in truth a most lordly creature. Almost immediately changes began. Eisenstadt did not content Nicolaus; Versailles was the admiration of all Europe, and he determined to rival Versailles.
Early one December morning, Orion and I started, with our man Little John, to ferret a double-mound for our old friend Farmer 'Willum' at Redcote. Little John was a labourer one of those frequently working at odd times for Luke, the Rabbit-Contractor. We had nicknamed him Little John because of his great size and unwieldy proportions.
For any thing I see, your session will be shortly over. Judge Brockholst Livingston took his seat in the City Hall yesterday. I am told it is nicknamed the Livingston act. My Mary is well, and has every desire to oblige you. Affectionately yours, New-York, April 3, 1802. I am favoured with yours of the 30th ult., with its enclosure.
Therefore some people nicknamed this railway 'The Twopenny Tube. Now, besides these underground trains, which are not seen, there are many huge motor-omnibuses to convey people about the streets above ground.
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