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Below stairs, Chapeau and Annot, wisely thinking that no time was like the present, endeavoured to be as gay as they would have been had they enjoyed their marriage-feast in the smith's own cottage; one or two of Chapeau's friends were asked on the occasion, and among them, Plume condescended to regale himself though the cheer was spread in the kitchen instead of in the parlour.
Then he was conducted to a throne of massy silver, and a regale, fit for Jove when he banquets, was placed before him. Because he missed this sight, he sat melancholy and thoughtful, and would taste of none of the rich delicacies placed before him.
I would I could hear again those long rubber-lipped snufflings of recognition underneath the door, with which each morning he would regale and reassure a spirit that grew with age more and more nervous and delicate about this matter of propinquity!
Whenever in your novel you come on a sentence like this On the third night it came on to blow and that night and the three succeeding days and nights we ran close-reefed before the tempest whenever you come on a sentence like that, you may know that the author feels pinched and cramped by civilization, and is going to regale you with some adventures of his uncharted imagination which are likely to be worth your attention.
Vanderhorst, to regale the honor-oppressed invalid with martial airs, from every land wherever a soldier's banner had waved. But letters arrived from Mount Vernon. General Washington had become impatient for his expected guest, and the morning of his separation from his Bristol friends was fixed.
In preparation for the winter, Godfrey had the greater part salted in such a way as to serve for the needs of each day. But for some time the table was supplied with turtle soup, on which Tartlet was not the only one to regale himself. Barring this incident, the monotony of existence was in no way ruffled. Every day the same hours were devoted to the same work.
Not only were some new gods added to the old ones, not only did Greek art come to be employed in Roman temples, not only were new rites introduced, such as the lectisternium, in which couches were arranged, each with the image of a god and that of a goddess, and tables spread to regale the recumbent deities.
If the ripple did not rise from knuckles to elbows, he forced speed with a shout of 'Up-up, my men! Up-up! and gave orders for the regale to go round, or for the crews to shift, or for the Highland piper to set the bagpipes skirling. Hither, then, came Hendry from the Bay, the first Englishman to ascend the Saskatchewan. 'The mosquitoes are intolerable, he writes. 'We came to the French house.
Garrick, which was a regale as agreeable as a pine-apple would be in a desert . He had favoured me with his correspondence for many years; and when Dr. Johnson and I were at Inverness, I had written to him as follows: Inverness, Sunday, 29 August, 1773. 'Here I am, and Mr. Samuel Johnson actually with me.
Perhaps I am wrong, and judge the general from the particular. Perhaps we are deficient in power to express grief. Perhaps we don't feel it. I don't know. I have known men at sea who raved about their parents' perfections and I was unable to sympathize and regale them with anecdotes about my 'old lady. I couldn't. I don't remember ever talking to anybody about my mother.
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