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Updated: May 9, 2025
There was comparatively little of this mechanical work now; it was the sense and not the wording which had to be mastered. Thus geography was studied from an atlas and not by the mere parrot-like learning of the names of towns and rivers. In grammar the boys had to show that they understood a rule by citing examples other than those given in their books.
As to these Ceylon crows, one regards them with a full sense of their audacity, but the birds themselves do not seem to be at all annoyed by such scrutiny. Cocking their heads on one side, parrot-like, they coolly proceed to look you out of countenance.
Glancing about her while she still spoke to Dindie Ackroyde carelessly, Lady Sellingworth saw young Leving; Sir Robert Syng; the Duchess of Wellingborough, shaking her broad shoulders and tossing up her big chin as she laughed at some joke; Jennie Farringdon, with her puffy pale cheeks and parrot-like nose, talking to old Hubert Mostine, the man of innumerable weddings, funerals and charity fetes, with his blinking eyelids and moustaches that drooped over a large and gossiping mouth; Magdalen Dearing, whose Mona Lisa smile had attracted three generations of men, and who had managed to look sad and be riotous for at least four decades; Frances Braybrooke, pulling at his beard; Mrs.
They did not need to rely on such reasons for not liking his music: most of them felt with regard to it the natural irritation of the man who has no ideas and no difficulty in expressing them according to parrot-like formula, with the man who is full of ideas and employs them clumsily in accordance with the apparent disorder of his creative faculty.
Granville's chair, and said in parrot-like tones: "I'm so glad to see you, pa!" "And you are really Philip?" said Mr. Granville slowly. "Yes, I'm Philip Brent; but I suppose my name is Granville now." "Come here, my boy!" Mr. Granville drew the boy to him, and looked earnestly in his face, then kissed him affectionately. "He has changed since he was a little child, Mrs.
Again the parrot-like reminder caused him to wince, and this time he recognized the application. "Oh!" he exclaimed, with sorry yet protesting confusion. "It's the inconsistency," she answered without flinching, perceiving that he understood. George flushed to the roots of his hair. "You compare me with that er blatherskite?" he asked, conscious as he spoke that her logic was irrefutable.
The guard-house, where he spent part of the day, was thronged by a curious crowd, anxious to see this strange creature, who looked at things without seeing them, who could not bear a strong light, who loathed any food but bread and water, and who, parrot-like, repeated a couple of phrases which he evidently did not understand, and one word, 'horse, to which he seemed to attach some meaning.
The funny little puffins, with their red, parrot-like bills, were peering anxiously out of the crevices; while the curious little auks, standing erect in rows like black and white mannikins, were exceedingly perturbed; and the kittiwakes flew screaming from the rocky shelves, joining their voices to the hoarser cries of the guillemots and the booming of the waves among walls and pillars of rock.
So fuddled was he by vodka that he was unable to understand the purport of my visit. He merely laughed inanely and began to repeat parrot-like those curious prayers which he recited at the weekly reunions of the sister-disciples passages culled haphazard from Holy Writ, interspersed with the most obscene and ribald allegations, a jumble of piety and blasphemy that none could ever understand.
"Look there," he cried, pointing with his left hand; "that's the old chap's picture. Ain't it like him!" The doctor frowned, and Helen looked troubled, even though it was a compliment to her skill; and for a few moments there was a painful silence in the room. This was however broken by the boy, who lifted Helen's hand up and down, and said in a parrot-like way "How do you do?"
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