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"Then worship water," returned Nimrod. "But water is absorbed by the clouds," said the boy. "And clouds are blown by the wind," said Nimrod. "Man can withstand the force of the wind," said Abraham. "So he will talk all day long, this child of the stars," exclaimed Haran. "Child of the stars!" said the chief magician. "Now I understand.
My little woman hasn't a good ear for names," proceeds Mr. Snagsby after consulting his cough of consideration behind his hand, "and she considered Nemo equally the same as Nimrod. In consequence of which, she got into a habit of saying to me at meals, 'Mr. Snagsby, you haven't found Nimrod any work yet! or 'Mr.
We rallied again and again to demolish the fruit as we voyaged, and sat with one foot on top of the other to avoid crushing the lovely pea blossoms as we fidgeted about, but the results of our efforts, messy fruit in hopeless abundance and withering leaves in dreary profusion, were discouraging. When the noon hour came, Nimrod carried the fruit basket into the Diner and set it down on the table.
With this view he had bought Vespasian for eighteen hundred dollars; whereof anon. America is fertile in mixtures: what do we not owe her? Sherry cobbler, gin sling, cocktail, mint julep, brandy smash, sudden death, eye openers. Well, one day she outdid herself, and mixed Fullalove: Quaker, Nimrod, Archimedes, Philanthropist, decorous Red Rover, and What Not The passenger boats cast loose.
Nimrod as he is, and the happiest illustrator of the hunting-field that ever was, he seems for ever haunted by a terror of the heels of that noble animal he drew so well and I thoroughly sympathise with him! In all the series the chief note is joyousness, high spirits, the pleasure of being alive.
Jorrocks," observed Nimrod, advancing past the staircase end to hang up his hat on a line of pegs against the wall. "Not a bit of it," replied Mr. Jorrocks "not a bit of it quite the contrary you are the first, in fact!" "Indeed!" replied Nimrod, eyeing a table full of hats by where he stood "why here are as many hats as would set up a shop. "Haw! haw! haw! werry good, Mr.
Some believe it was Serug, the grandfather of Terah, who first introduced idolatry after the deluge. Others maintain it was Nimrod, and that he instituted the worship of fire among his subjects, which continues even to this day in some places in Persia.
'Yes: but as the same ornaments are repeated several times, I shall have to make a number of full-sized drawings, with perforated outlines, to transfer the design to the walls, said Owen, and he proceeded to laboriously explain the processes. Nimrod looked at him suspiciously. 'Is all that really necessary? he asked. 'Couldn't you just copy it on the wall, free-hand? 'No; that wouldn't do.
It looked as though Kit Carson would go unrivaled by me as a trapper; certainly the shades of Nimrod and Robin Hood had no cause to be uneasy lest I win their laurels from them, and as for Buffalo Bill both the Buffalo and the redskins, whose scalps had always dangled in fancy from my belt in revenge for their plaguing my mother on her brave drive with my sick father across those long unsettled miles, were far beyond my puny vengeance.
The warden reminded the king that Abraham had not had food or drink a whole year, and therefore must be dead, but Nimrod nevertheless desired him to step in front of the prison and call his name. If he made reply, he was to be hauled out to the pyre. If he had perished, his remains were to receive burial, and his memory was to be wiped out henceforth.
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