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Updated: June 1, 2025
Thin, faith, ye'll take ne'er a picter this day, for Oi'm jist afther usin' the last schrap av gilitin in the house to make the wine jilly fer the dinner." "I don't mean that kind of gelatine; the kind I use is already prepared on little plates in this box, and I have to go in the dark closet to fix them." "Faith, I'd fix thim out here, thin, where ye can see what ye're about.
But Eloise insisted upon the white dressing jacket with pink ribbons, in which Mrs. Biggs said she looked "like a picter," regretting that the young men could not see her. "If it wasn't for desiccating the Sabbath I wish them high bucks would call," she added, as she gave a final whisk to the duster and went to prepare for church.
The bowlder which supported him was no more stationary than he. He gazed fixedly at the youths, but made no signs and uttered no word. "Begorra, but he's a shtrange gintleman," muttered Tim. "I wonder if he's posin' for his picter." "His firing of the gun proves that he is a friend," said Warren; "so we have nothing to fear from him."
Anyway, she looked as if she pitied Him and would have loosed His bonds if she could. It wuz a dretful impressive picter, one that touched the most sacred feelin's of the beholder. There wuz a great fuss made over Alma Tadema's picter of "Crowning Bachus." But I didn't approve on't. The girls' figgers in it wuz very beautiful, with the wonderful floatin' hair of red gold crowned with roses.
Master Benjamin Franklin rushed into the dialogue with a breezy exclamation, that he had seen a great picter outside of the place where the fat man was exhibitin'. Tried to get in at half-price, but the man at the door looked at his teeth and said he was more'n ten year old. It is n't two years, said the young man John, since that fat fellah was exhibitin' here as the Livin' Skeleton.
Tom, I'm glad to see you back safe and sound but that picter Tom, when I die, you just put that picter in the coffin with me, won't you? I want your grandfather to see that the old place was looked after when he was gone." Tom promised. A dark featured, dark haired man entered Mr. Strout's store. The proprietor knew he was a stranger perhaps just moved into town, and a prospective customer.
"Sakes alive, Izick, look at that!" said the woman in a whisper, while the little fellow went on picking his toes, and the grey horse turned his tail into a live chowry to keep away the flies. "Well, I am!" said the fat man, wrinkling his face all over as he indulged in a silent laugh. "Why, moother, he's a perfeck picter."
I allers say, when folks grumble, 'Now if you was given the materials, could you turn out a better world than this is? And when it come to that, what if you hed to furnish your own materials, same as the Lord did! He's been a college professor, but I went to school with him, darn his picter, an' I'll call him Hen whenever I git a chance, though he does declare he's a doctor."
Under a bondage of poverty and drudgery she had led her starved life in the mountain fastnesses; but now she had opened her eyes on a new and unexpected world. "How do you go about gittin' a larnin'?" she ventured at last to ask one of the friendly nurses. "Can't you fetch me up some of them thar picter books?"
"'D'know 'bout zat, says Frenchy, only he says it in his lingo, 'but she was one vair cute li'l gal. "'Han'some as a picter, I tol' him; 'an' cutes' little tyke y'ever see." "How is Mother?" asked Helen constrainedly. "Ma's lottin' on havin' ye home; wants t' hear all 'bout the good times. School done? All packed and ready for a start, ain't ye? But ye don't seem to be feeling any too good.
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