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Updated: June 14, 2025
Verty was gnawing off the ribbon from the pigeon's foot, tied too tightly; he could not undo it, and having no knife, used his sharp white teeth for the purpose. The pigeon sank down toward the horizon seemed about to disappear Verty uttered a deep sigh.
Near the banks of the stream we passed a grove of curious trees with short stems, on either side of which projected huge long leaves with feather-like branches on the top. Amid them was an immense number of clusters of nuts, each larger than a pigeon's egg. Chickango ordered one of the men to climb up and bring down a cluster when he saw us looking at them.
That was rain, and not only rain but hail, each piece of ice the size of a pigeon's egg, some even larger. The rain fell in no small drops, but in sheets of water, and soon converted our camp into a pond, the spot on which my mother's tent stood happily forming an island.
With a movement that told of straining effort the lolled head came up off the chest. The thin, corded neck stiffened back, rising from a dirty, collarless neckband. The Adam's apple bulged out prominently, as big as a pigeon's egg. "I have come," said the specter in a wheezing rasp of a voice which the chief could hardly hear "I have come to surrender myself. I am Hobart W. Trimm."
With two or three of these Pigeon's on each side, a Correspondence might be carried on in a very expeditious manner, especially in Matters of Curiosity, or those things which tend to publick Good.
From the front, your view northward, Nimburg way, across the Elbe Valley, is fertile, wide-waving, pretty: but rearward, upstairs, having with difficulty got permission, you find bare balks, tattered feathers, several hundredweight of pigeon's dung, and no outlook at all, except into walls of office-houses and the overhanging brow of Heights, fatal, clearly, to any view of Daun, even from a third story!"
Storms of thunder and lightning are frequent, especially in spring, and they are often of extraordinary violence: hail-stones fall of the size of pigeon's eggs; the lightning is incessant; and the wind rages with fury.
I have seen Taglioni, he answered. -She used to take her steps rather prettily. I have seen the woman that danced the capstone on to Bunker Hill Monument, as Orpheus moved the rocks by music, the Elssler woman, Fanny Elssler. She would dance you a rigadoon or cut a pigeon's wing for you very respectably. Well, did these two ladies dance as if it was hard work to them?
The idea of being anything very different from what it now is, would be too wide a cross with the pigeon's other ideas for it to entertain it seriously.
There may be some unco quirks to be performed, and some sore hearts to confer at the doing of them, but Heaven itself, for all its puissance, must shorten the pigeon's wing that the gled of the wood may have food to live on." "Upon my word, M'Iver," said Argile, "you beat me at my own trade of debate, and have you ever heard of a fellow Machiavelli?"
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