Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 8, 2025
They say, however, that he never comes to town now, and lives by himself in the country, faring hardly, with an old woman to look after him and get his dinner for him, when he comes in tired from pottering about his vineyard. They told me your father was at home again, and that was why I came, but it seems the gods are still keeping him back, for he is not dead yet not on the mainland.
He had taken off his hat, and was pottering about among his canaries, scolding Simmons and swearing at the weather. Dr. Lavendar and William, coming from the white glare of sunshine, could hardly distinguish him as he shuffled back and forth among the shadows, except when he crossed the strip of dazzling green light between the bowed shutters, Dr.
Do you abandon them, with a helpless sigh, to be moping and mawkish and unhealthy? 'In the first place, there needn't be a great number of unmarried women claimed by such duties. Most of those you are thinking of are not fulfilling a duty at all; they are only pottering about the house, because they have nothing better to do.
I often see you out around, pottering." "Oh! you do, do you? You are a very observing young person at the wrong times." Molly opened her big gray eyes to their widest. The little old lady was as odd as she looked, after all. Then she reflected that when people spoke in that tone of voice they were usually suffering in some manner.
I heard him at his desk, I heard him in the closet, and afterward pottering in the old trunk I had been so anxious to look into myself. He must have brought the key with him, for it was no time before I heard him throwing out the contents in a wild search for something he wanted in a great hurry.
I have had a sniff of it already in the proceedings of the Antiquarian Society. It is a brilliant specimen of the pedantic pottering of the learned body which enables me to append to my name the A.S.S., fraudulently inverted into S.S.A. Such twaddle always excites me into feverishness. I haven't nerve for it.
The duelling pistol is still a factor in Continental life, and the cases containing them at Schaunard's are worth lingering over, for the modern duelling pistol is a thing of beauty, very different from the murderous hair-trigger machines of Count Considine though just as deadly. To Schaunard, pottering amongst his wares, appeared Adams.
They are oftener those weaker vessels who have to be content with strolls, and drives, and sketching, and "pottering about the garden." Now, pottering about the garden in spring and autumn has many risks for feeble vitalities, and yet these are just the seasons when everything requires doing, and there is a good hour's work in every yard of a pet border any day. So verbum sap.
He knew himself to be every inch an earl, pottering about after his oxen with his muddy gaiters and red cheeks, as much as though he were glittering with stars in courtly royal ceremonies among his peers at Westminster, ay, more an earl than any of those who use their nobility for pageant purposes. Woe be to him who should mistake that old coat for a badge of rural degradation!
We should have gone pottering on for another seven years. Thank God that you came when you did. See here!" He tossed him over a letter. Grahame's cheek paled as he read. "Already!" he murmured. Brott nodded. "Read it!" Grahame devoured every word. His eyes lit up with excitement. "My prophecy exactly," he exclaimed, laying it down. "It is as I said. He cannot form the ministry without you.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking