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Updated: May 3, 2025
Such, then, in succinctest statement, is the synthetic theory of the tax, that is, if I may venture to use the familiar comparison, of this fifth wheel of the coach of humanity, which makes so much noise, and which, in governmental parlance, is styled the State.
Some approximate closely to the goat tribe; others are more like deer; some resemble oxen; others are closely allied to the buffalo; while a few species possess many of the characteristics of wild sheep! As a general thing, however, they are more like to deer than any other animals; and many species of them are, in common parlance, called deer.
So I ordered from one of those poetasters to be found in every land, a sort of libretto called, in theatrical parlance, a lyric drama; and to the words of this monstrosity I arranged the very finest airs of my several operas.
Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, a third lower floor. The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. There are superior mines and inferior mines.
As the last echoes of the firing over the grave died away, Gerrard turned to Charteris with quickened breath. "Bob," he murmured, "they have made a way for a corpse through the great wall of Agpur." In modern parlance, "gas."
He had raised his boy right, and trained him for the race of life, and now The Laird felt that, like a thoroughbred horse, his son faced the barrier. Would he make the run, or would he, in the parlance of the sporting world, "dog it?" Would his four years at a great American university make of him a better man, or would he degenerate into a snob and a drone?
She's been over to see Andy with Mrs. Matilda twice, and I've missed her both times. Now, how's that for luck?" "Well," said the major reflectively, "in the terms of modern parlance, you certainly are up against it.
"We will not waste time in unnecessary parlance," resumed Nisida, after a short pause; "nor must you seek to learn the causes the powerful causes, which have urged me to impose upon myself the awful sacrifice involved in the simulation of loss of speech and hearing.
As he gasped and doubled up, clubbing his right fist to land the blow behind the ear of Ronicky Doone, the latter bent back, stepped in and, rising on the toes of both feet, whipped a perfect uppercut that, in ring parlance, rang the bell. The result was that Robert Macklin, his mouth agape and his eyes dull, stood wobbling slowly from side to side.
Like that of Neptune, this temple is hexastyle, with six columns on each of its façades and twelve on either flank, but as it is little more than half the size of its grander and older brethren, it is now frequently known as “Il Piccolo Tempio,” although its former incorrect ascription to Ceres still clings to it in popular parlance.
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