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The children inside the low rail fence were placing the brilliantly-striped wooden balls in a row in order to determine by 'pinking' at the stake who should have the advantageous last shot. Bobby, irresolute, halted outside, shifting uneasily, wanting to join the group, but withheld by the unwonted bashfulness.
Therefore it was that the virgin bower of Lillie was knee-deep in a tangled mass of stuffs of various hues and description; that the sharp sound of tearing off breadths resounded there; that Miss Clippins and Miss Snippings and Miss Nippins were sewing there day and night; that a sewing-machine was busily rattling in mamma's room; and that there were all sorts of pinking and quilling, and braiding and hemming, and whipping and ruffling, and over-sewing and cat-stitching and hem-stitching, and other female mysteries, going on.
The Court is all full of vests, only my Lord St. Albans not pinked but plain black; and they say the King says the pinking upon white makes them look too much like magpyes, and therefore hath bespoke one of plain velvet. Thence to St.
The old stocking cured Evelina's throat, and Mrs. Hawkins dropped in once or twice to talk of her baby's teeth; some new orders for pinking were received, and Evelina sold a bonnet to the lady with puffed sleeves.
One, is a bad domino which only hides what good people have about ’em, without making the bad look better; and the other is much about the same thing as pinking a white cotton stocking to make it look like a silk one. Now listen to what I’m going to say.’ Here, the little gentleman paused, and took a long pull at his brandy-and-water. Mr.
But farther away, it was brilliant, and played around the edges of the leaves and accentuated their delicate pinking. Later we reached the top of a barren slope, which was flat and smooth, and without a blade of grass to relieve the monotony of its colour. Sometimes, however, we came upon a long avenue of beech-trees with moss growing around the foot of their thick, shining trunks.
Then she would insist on trying to carry it upstairs, but was not long enough in the arms, and Aunt M'riar had to do it for her in the end. Not, however, unwillingly, because it enabled her to give her mind to pinking or gauffering, or whatever other craft was then engaging her attention. We do not ourself know what pinking is, or gauffering; we have only heard them referred to.
As to the money necessary for the marriage, necessary to tide over the days till the locum was taken up, why, he knew he could borrow that from the Dean or from Professor Wyvern to- morrow. They were upon the very crest and flood of their delight when George noted the gathering dusk. "I say, it's getting late!" he exclaimed. "I must fix it up with Mrs. Pinking.
"A desperate case, indeed," said the Abbe. "If it had not been for Krahwinkel, I should have been a dead man, that's positive. That pinking him saved me." "I make no doubt of it," said the Abbe. "Had your Excellency not run him through, he, without a doubt, would have done the same for you." "I mean what cursed chocolate! that I was dying for want of excitement.
"You'll thank him right away, shan't you?" she queried. "I suppose I ought." sighed the possessor of the roses. "Don't you want to?" Polly's tone showed her surprise. "Such notes are hard to write," was the discreet answer. She bent closer over her work than there was any need. Her cheeks were pinking up again. "I do believe you're growing near-sighted!" declared Polly irrelevantly.
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