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The workman then takes a strip in his left hand, and, with his thumb on the back and his forefinger on the edge, draws the strips up and down against the knife blade until the soft pithy parts are cut away, and what remains has become fine enough for the next process. The cases are made on pointed cylindrical pieces of wood almost a couple of feet long.
The 'bridal scenes, you say, 'we'd grace right well! 'Lang syne' there our first parents blindly fell! The bridal scene! Is this your end and aim? And can you this pursue, 'nor own your shame? If so weak, pithy, superficial thing Drink, silent drink the sick hymeneal spring.
Vincent did not know, though he confessed to feeling stiff and sore all over. And it did not matter, anyway. He had killed neither Borg nor his wife, that much he did know. Frona prefaced her argument to the meeting with a pithy discourse on the sacredness of human life, the weaknesses and dangers of circumstantial evidence, and the rights of the accused wherever doubt arose.
Whose workes surely in respecte of his singuler eloquence and brave composition of apt words and sentences, let the learned examine and make tryall thereof through all the partes of Rethoricke, in fitte phrases, in pithy sentences, in gallant tropes, in flowing speech, in plaine sence.
Very little apparently. No one had tackled the comparison in Rhoda's grandiose fashion, but a few pithy sentences were to be found scribbled on the sides of exercise books. "Jo March was very clever, and my father says Mr Chamberlain is, too!" from one dutiful pupil. "Jo March was a darling, and Chamberlain is not," from another of Radical principles.
She knew that her own heart was throbbing in its pages, and wondered whether the great world- pulses would beat in unison. Instead of a preface she had quoted on the title-page those pithy lines in "Aurora Leigh": "My critic Belfair wants a book Entirely different, which will sell and live; A striking book, yet not a startling book The public blames originalities.
But, on this occasion, up to the moment of putting his lips to the old woman's ear, Mr. Dimmesdale, as the great enemy of souls would have it, could recall no text of Scripture, nor aught else, except a brief, pithy, and, as it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immortality of the human soul.
Ef I loves ye I kain't kill ye an' ef I hates ye thar's time enough." "But Alexander, you do love me! I know " "Wa'al, I don't an' thet's a right pithy point ter my manner of thinking! Ye're a right masterful sort of feller, an' ye likes ter plow yore way through life gloryin' in yore strength an' forcin' your will on weaker folks."
He had a singular felicity of illustration, and especially of metaphor, and a rare power of throwing his thoughts into terse and pithy sentences; but his many books, though full of original thinking and in a high degree suggestive to other writers, had always a certain fragmentary and occasional character, which prevented them from taking a place in standard literature.
Well met; by your leave I will sip my grog at your table. No offence, I hope more the merrier, eh? Waiter, a glass of hot brandy and water not too weak. D'ye hear?" Need I say that this pithy and pretty address proceeded from the mouth of Mr. Tom Thornton. He was somewhat more than half drunk, and his light prying eyes twinkled dizzily in his head.
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