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Here is the thing in a nut-shell. Four battalions is a big enough command for a colonel. A general has eight battalions. He gets orders, "General, do so and so." He orders, "Colonel, do so and so." So that without any maneuvers being laid down for more than four battalions, as many battalions as you like can be maneuvered and drilled.
There's nothing to see; the island isn't bigger than a nut-shell, and doesn't contain a single prospect. Go ashore and get some dinner? There isn't anything to eat there. Fruit? None to speak of; sour oranges and green bananas. I went to market last Saturday, and bought one cabbage, one banana, and half a pig's head; there's a market for you! Fish? Oh, yes, if you like it. Turtle?
There was a fair to take place some time later, and Rudolph and Theresa worked hard making swinging baskets and nut-shell boats for the fair. And as the poor mother was fairly broken down, and could not go to the city, they had not to pick berries, but could spend all their time making their little articles. They even made little faces out of the nut shells.
The whole matter lay in a nut-shell, but it was a nut-shell which enclosed the flaming edicts of Charles the Fifth, with their scaffolds, gibbets, racks, and funeral piles. The Prince and the states-general spurned such pacific overtures, and preferred rather to gird themselves for the combat.
These two shining eyes, which almost seem to gaze at one, and the cone-shaped head of the egg, give it the look of a tiny fish without fins a fish for whom half a nut-shell would make a capacious aquarium. About the same time I notice frequently, on the asphodels in the paddock and on those of the neighbouring hills, certain indications that the eggs have recently hatched out.
Winn, is here, a quiet, intelligent young man, who has given me the case in a nut-shell. The tenant to be evicted, James Griffin, is the son and heir of one Mrs. Griffin, who on the 5th of April 1854 took a lease of the lands known as West Lettur from the then Lord Headley and the Hon. R. Winn, at the annual rent of £32, 10s. This rent has since been reduced by a judicial process to £26.
"It was all life in a nut-shell. Confound it! I thought, have I got to the point of envying that ancient fossil?" Every morning for the next two or three weeks, the stroke of ten found Norris, unkempt and haggard, at the lawyer's door.
I would advise your lordship to bring even your own name into question, as little as possible. My lord Chesterfield compares a statesman, who has been celebrated for influence during the greatest part of the present reign, to the ostrich. The brain of an ostrich, your lordship will please to observe, though he be the largest of birds, may very easily be included in the compass of a nut-shell.
Loki quickly broke the bonds that held Idun, and led her out of her prison house; and then he shut her up in a magic nut-shell which he held between his claws, and flew with the speed of the wind back toward the Southland and the home of the Asas. But Old Winter coming home, and learning what had been done, donned his eagle plumage and followed swiftly in pursuit.
'Twas a square cap with a silver tassel upon the crown of it to a nut-shell to have guessed on which side of the nose the two universities would split. 'Tis above reason, cried the doctors on one side. 'Tis below reason, cried the others. 'Tis faith, cried one. 'Tis a fiddle-stick, said the other. 'Tis possible, cried the one. 'Tis impossible, said the other.
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