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Mary thought she would rather do any thing than that. She also felt a great curiosity to know who her companion was, so she at last ventured to ask, "Do you live here, Miss Polly?" "Why, yes, I'm staying here for a spell now: kind of seeing to things. My name isn't Polly. It's Mrs. Mary Grundy, and somehow folks have got to nicknaming me Polly, but it'll look more mannerly in you to call me Mrs.
Canning, by showing off his rhetorical paces, by his 'ambling and lisping and nicknaming God's creatures, cannot invert that order, efface the history of the past, or arrest the progress of the future. Public opinion is the result of public events and public feelings; and government must be moulded by that opinion, or maintain itself in opposition to it by the sword. Mr.
Laforgue was essentially a namer with Gallic glee he would have enjoyed renaming the animals as they left the Noachian ark; yes, and nicknaming the humans, for he is a terrible disrespecter of persons and rank and of the seats of the mighty.
"And you started it all, Dave Darrin, by nicknaming me 'Anvil Chorus!" "You're at it again, Hen," sighed Dick. "Why can't you stop saying disagreeable things?" Toby Ross, who had skated close enough to hear this last, now skated away again to join a crowd of boys a little way off. Toby spoke to them laughingly. Then, over the ice, came a mocking chorus: "Oh, you Anvil!"
And of this opportunity they made the most. There was no form of petty cruelty boys' minds could devise that was not inflicted upon the two helpless strangers. Edward seemed to look particularly inviting, and nicknaming him "Dutchy" they devoted themselves at each noon recess and after school to inflicting their cruelties upon him.
I hold that it arose, in the mysterious hands of 'Fashion, from the knot which secures the body-cloth, and which men wear in front or by the side. Usually this bussle is a mere bundle of cloth; on dress occasions it is a pad or cushion. I had some trouble to buy the specimen, which Cameron exhibited in London. Men and women are vastly given to 'chaffing' and to nicknaming. Women.
Do not allow yourself to speak in that tone of men whom you know to be zealous advocates, and whom you do not know to be dishonest opponents." "It is they and such as they that make so many in these days feel the need of some Utopia, as it was in the old days of our history. But I beg your pardon for nicknaming them, and certainly ought not to have done so in your presence."
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