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Updated: May 13, 2025
The incisors are at the points, they gallop up and down, and are worthless for doing hard work; the molars are at the hinges, and move slowly; and if anything tough has to be dealt with, it comes to them as a matter of course; hence they are the nutcrackers.
That evening at dinner Harsanyi sat looking intently into a glass of heavy yellow wine; boring into it, indeed, with his one eye, when his face suddenly broke into a smile. "What is it, Andor?" his wife asked. He smiled again, this time at her, and took up the nutcrackers and a Brazil nut.
The nutcrackers can scarcely be numbered among the common birds, but are sometimes seen in our hill stations, and, such is the "cussedness" of birds that if I omit to notice the nutcrackers several are certain to show themselves to many of those who read these lines.
"He ought to have had Lebrun, our doctor; it would have cost him nothing." "M. Pons' doctor is a Providence on earth. But what can a doctor do, no matter how clever he is, with such complications?" "I wanted the good pair of nutcrackers badly for the accompaniment of my new fairy piece."
Taynton, while Morris was speaking, had picked up the nutcrackers the boy had been using, and was gravely exploding the shells of the nuts he had helped himself to. So Morris cracked the next one with a loud bang between his white even teeth. "Dear Morris," said his mother, "how foolish of you. Give Mr. Morris another nutcracker," she added to the parlour-maid.
Eugene Hubblestead, cousin of the bride on this occasion the office was closed for the whole of one day, and the staff had a holiday without deduction of salary. The latter was my own suggestion; there was a sum of eight shillings over after the purchase of the nutcrackers, and I have always had a partiality for Cowper.
It was a cudgel of mighty strength and wonderful art, made by one of Mr Deard's best workmen, whom no other artificer can equal, and who hath made all those sticks which the beaus have lately walked with about the Park in a morning; but this was far his masterpiece. On its head was engraved a nose and chin, which might have been mistaken for a pair of nutcrackers.
'She is a changed person, sir, cried Edward, reddening; 'and changed by vile means, I believe. 'You have had a cool dismissal, have you? said his father. 'Poor Ned! I told you last night what would happen. May I ask you for the nutcrackers? 'She has been tampered with, and most treacherously deceived, cried Edward, rising from his seat.
And at last, finding the pair of nutcrackers as mild as lambs, easy to live with, and by no means suspicious perfect children, in fact her heart, the heart of a woman of the people, prompted her to protect, adore, and serve them with such thorough devotion, that she read them a lecture now and again, and saved them from the impositions which swell the cost of living in Paris.
Few opportunities for personal profit escaped her eye, and I was able to observe as time went on and I noted the accumulation of spoons, forks, nutcrackers, and gimcracks generally that she brought home with her after her calls upon or dinners with ladies of fashion that she had that quality of true genius which never overlooks the smallest details.
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