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He paused to drink his tea; as he tasted one of the cakes his face lit with sudden animation and he gazed across the hall after the maid with the tray she was now holding it before the aged and ossified 'cellist of the Hempfstangle Quartette. "Des gâteaux" he murmured feelingly, "ou est-ce qu'elle peut trouver de tels gâteaux ici â New York?"
Wilkins, "that we've got to heaven, and once Mrs. Fisher realizes that that's where she is, she's bound to be different. You'll see. She'll leave off being ossified, and go all soft and able to stretch, and we shall get quite why, I shouldn't be surprised if we get quite fond of her." The idea of Mrs.
She is a suffragette, and he is a mortal suffering yet." Mr. Falconer of Washington rose in reply. He remarked: "I want to observe that the mental operation of the average woman in the State of Washington, as compared to the ossified brain operation of the gentleman from Alabama, would make him look like a mangy kitten in a tiger fight.
"Well, Susie, you and Nell may be able to stand it for a month, but long ere that I'll be dead ossified, fossilised, dried up, and blown away! Maybe you girls enjoy it, though I didn't think it of you but what can I do? I'm tired of reading day-before-yesterday's newspaper and of being two days behind the market. Two days! Think what may have happened to steel since I've heard from it!
Lorenzo he didn't expect Philadelphia would go that high, and he got hot in the collar, an' flew round his kitchen in New York, an' claimed he'd twist Saynt Augustine's Domingo tail for him and crack his ossified system. Lorenzo raised his language to a high temperature, they say. An' then quite sudden off he starts for Tulare.
"Cheer up, Ossi! It might be worse," she said across the left rail, but her lids twitching involuntarily of tiredness. "Sacred Mother of the Sacred Child!" said the Ossified Man, in Italian.
How had this corpse been fixed to the side of the mound at six feet above the ground? Across the body, held in place by its cross-belt, we saw the twisted barrel of’ a musket, half-eaten by rust. “Pym-my poor Pym!” groaned Dirk Peters. He tried to rise, that he might approach and kiss the ossified corpse.
"Where have I heard that before?" "That's what anybody says about anything till they try it. Well, there is but not in six months for a copy-writer at Vanamee and Co. Especially when the said copy-writer has to have enough to marry on." "And will write novels when he ought to be reading, 'How I Sold America on Ossified Oats' like a good little boy. Young people are so impatient."
I often wonder whether their notion of a good child would have been satisfactorily met if I had suddenly become paralyzed, or ossified, or petrified. In either of these cases I could have been seen but not heard. One day, not long ago, when I felt at peace with all the world and was comfortably free from care, a small, thumb-sucking seven-year-old asked: "How long since the world was born?"
Poetry is a good deal a matter of heart-beats, and the circulation is more languid in the later period of life. The joints are less supple; the arteries are more or less "ossified." Something like these changes has taken place in the mind. It has lost the flexibility, the plastic docility, which it had in youth and early manhood, when the gristle had but just become hardened into bone.
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