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Updated: May 6, 2025
"O heart, her rose, I cannot ease thee Till she release thee And bid unclose. So, till day come And she be risen, Rest, rose, in prison And heart be dumb!" He snapped the stem and passed on, whistling the air of his ditty, and twirling the rose between finger and thumb. "Men are all ninnies," Ruby decided as she dropped the blind; "and I thank the fates that framed me female and priced me high.
"If the army doesn't take things in hand and manage the government," said Gerard, "those lawyers in Paris will put us back just where we were before the Revolution. A parcel of ninnies! what do they know about governing?" "I'm always afraid they'll treat with the Bourbons," said Hulot. "Thunder! if they did that a pretty pass we should be in, we soldiers!"
No other people possesses the recipe. As a poet of the commencement of the century sings: The Christians are ninnies, they can't fry Dutch plaice, Believe me, they can't tell a carp from a dace. It was while discussing a deliciously brown oblong of the Dutch plaice of the ballad that Samuel Levine appeared to be struck by an idea. He threw down his knife and fork and exclaimed in Hebrew.
Bonaparte did not like cards; when he did happen to play it was always vingt-et-un. For the rest, he had one trait in common with Henry IV., he cheated; but when the game was over he left all the gold and notes he had won on the table, saying: "You are ninnies! I have cheated all the time we've been playing, and you never found out. Those who lost can take their money back."
Aunt Patty, who acted the part of janitress of the school-house at night and morning, had written on the blackboard in a large admonitory hand, "No spitting on this floor, you ninnies!" The bench, containing the water-pail, occupied the most central position in the room.
Just to put before you what I think the Truth. You see" she shook off the pince-nez to which she had recently taken "in a few years we shall be the same age practically, and I shall want you to help me. Men are so much nicer than women." "Labouring under such a delusion, why do you not marry?" "I sometimes jolly well think I would if I got the chance." "Has nobody arst you?" "Only ninnies."
She thrilled with happiness ere she reached her house. Others had loved her in the past, if one apply to their brief desires so grave a word, but the others had been "ninnies" young men who had nothing to do, old men who could find nobody better.
I laughed, and laughed, and then some more, and the tears were running down my cheeks all the time, and I was rolling around like I had wheels for feet. So those two ninnies began to look solemn, and the Englishman shook me a bit, but I couldn't stop.
"We're supposed to have known long ago that these things happen, and to have adjusted ourselves to our chances." "Ninnies that get scared first thing, when the facts begin to show!" Tiflin snarled. "Cripes let's don't be like soft bugs under boards!" "You're right, Tif," Frank Nelsen agreed, feeling that for once the ne'er-do-well the nuisance might be doing them all some good.
"I don't want the learned, the clever, the profound Bliss to teach me my duty," he said, with a proud sneer; "what business have you to abuse the house, because it is not full of young ninnies like Evson? You're no monitor of mine, let me tell you."
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