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Updated: June 16, 2025
We have soldiers for a guard. You draw out a board and lodge in your carriage as in a bed. Biscuits, potted meats, prunes, bon-bona, chocolate, wine you shall find all at your right hand and your left. I am desolate in offending you. Sandra, if you will promise " "I will promise this is what I will promise," said Vittoria.
And now to elude Pyecraft, occupying, as he does, an admirable strategic position between me and the door. "There's a man in that shop," said the Doctor, "who has been in Fairyland." "Nonsense!" I said, and stared back at the shop. It was the usual village shop, post-office, telegraph wire on its brow, zinc pans and brushes outside, boots, shirtings, and potted meats in the window.
Lowell says, "There is death in the dictionary, and where language is too strictly limited by convention, the ground for expression to grow in is limited also, and we get a potted literature, Chinese dwarfs instead of healthy trees."
King seemed not to notice whether she ate or not. But, when he had drunk his own coffee and she still lay quiet on the grass, he sweetened a cup for her, put some milk in it, and set it at her elbow. "Better drink it," he said coldly. And Gloria gathered her strength and sat up and drank. Thereafter she ate some bread and potted ham.
They ruined them, body and soul, with rum and brandy; they first made them merry with drink, and then cajoled them into unjust bargains; they shot them down in hundreds, and then boasted over their liquor how many Hottentots they had "potted."
"You can make coffee," Judith nodded her approval as she sipped at the black beverage, cooled a little by condensed milk. Lee was busied with a tin containing potted meat. "Now, have you got over your shock so that I can talk with you?" He smiled at her across the little oil-cloth-covered table, and answered lightly and with his old assurance that he guessed he had steadied his nerve.
I'm one still, and have saved up quite a little competency on big words and potted phrases. I've collected a great many practical ideas in my experience. I want to make you a present of some of them, if only you'll have them." "Do you call this advertisement a practical idea?
"Then presently one said, quite fiercely, 'Get back into balk there, get back fifteen inches, and the other voice said, 'By God! I'll shoot from here. Then there was a dead stillness, and then a voice almost screamed, 'You've potted me. You've potted me. That ends it. And then I heard the other say in a low tone, 'Forgive me, I didn't mean it. I never meant it to end that way.
"And you know everything about Phineas," said McPhail grimly. "Ay, ay, laddie," he sighed, "I ken it all. When you're in Tophet, a sympathetic Tophetuan with a wee drop of the milk of human kindness is more comfort than a radiant angel who showers down upon you, from the celestial Fortnum and Mason's, potted shrimps and caviare." The sombreness cleared for a moment from Doggie's young brow.
'Yet you seemed absolutely certain in the restaurant just now. Did you notice that you were sitting near to a sort of jungle of potted palms? I was lunching immediately on the other side of the forest. Mary drew herself up and fixed him with an eye that shone with rage and scorn. 'Eavesdropper! she cried. 'Not guilty, he said, cheerfully.
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