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Updated: June 10, 2025
Evidence was called to show that the house property passed by the proposed railway would be greatly deteriorated—in some places almost destroyed; that the locomotive engines would be terrible nuisances, in consequence of the fire and smoke vomited forth by them; and that the value of land in the neighbourhood of Manchester alone would be deteriorated by no less than £20,000!
As soon as any building is taken possession of for a hospital, men and their tools should be at command for exploring the drains and making new ones, for covering or filling up ditches, for clearing and purifying the water-courses, and leading in more water, if needed, for removing all nuisances for a sufficient distance round, and for improving to the utmost the means of access to the house.
Why on earth was it always his luck to be present when these female nuisances made their appearance? And why couldn't they let him alone, just as he had determined to let them alone in the future? Of course he was glad that the caller was not Miss Graham, but this one was bad enough.
They are both advantageous and disadvantageous to the dairyman. They are nuisances so far as concerns the milk producer, but allies of the butter and cheese maker.
Before them both grand and petty juries were empanelled, indictments drawn up, prisoners tried for assault, burglary, horse-stealing, witchcraft, pocket-picking, keeping up nuisances, cheating, failure to attend church, and almost all other offences of which seventeenth- century Englishmen were capable. If convicted they were placed in the stocks, whipped, or hanged.
I observed a large wooden screen at each end of it, as if for the purpose of shutting it off from the white people's quarter. One of the nuisances we had to encounter in the streets was that of railway touters. No sooner did we emerge from the hotel door, than men lying in wait pounced upon us, offering tickets by this route, that route, and the other route to New York.
I have not often had to carry civil officials in this craft, she is too small for any such dignified people; but when I was in the Tigris, we often carried civil and military officials from Madras, and some of them were unmitigated nuisances not the military men, but the civilians.
Sundays and holidays are indeed allowed the negroes in Carolina, the former cannot consistent with the laws be denied them; the latter, as they are commonly spent are nuisances to the province. Holidays there are days of idleness, riot, wantonness and excess; in which the slaves assemble together in alarming crowds, for the purposes of dancing, feasting and merriment.
"Hit her a smack!" said Major Dick; "don't let her bother you. Christian has spoilt these dogs till they're perfect nuisances! Yes, it's her pup. Who won it? It ought to be a clinker; it was the best of the lot " "I d'no did they draw for it yet. I took three tickets for it myself," said the Doctor.
"War is hell, and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time." "Such as !" "Well, Suffragettes, and Futurism, and and " "Bernard Shaw," suggested another voice. "Hall Caine " "Yes, and the Tango, and party politics, and golf-maniacs.
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