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It may be said that this walk from Coverack along the cliffs is not easy; it is rugged, undulating, tortuous, and Cornish miles sometimes seem very long. But it repays. When we reach Cadgwith we seem to be genuinely at the Lizard. We have come to a port of crabs and lobsters, and of painters.
"And is it thus the most renowned Prince of Frangistan repays benefit done to his royal person?" said El Hakim, exchanging the humble and stooping posture in which he had hitherto solicited the King, for an attitude lofty and commanding.
I may say," continues Mr. Fitzgerald, touching the visor of his cap, "that he always repays with kindness any little attention we may extend to him at the station, and at times seems too anxious to make it his home. We give him a shirt and a few shillings now and then; and when we want to be rid of him we begin to talk about fashionable wives. He is sure to go then.
Lillie is immensely pleased, feeling that it alone repays the whole enterprise. In the forenoon the ship skirted the Island, and with a telescope those on board could watch the string of ponies steadily progressing over the sea-ice past the Razor Back Islands; and, as soon as they were seen to be well advanced, the ship steamed on to the Glacier Tongue, and made fast in the narrow angle made by the sea-ice with the glacier.
Or it might be likened to a storm or hurricane, which, passing over a region, does great damage in its passage, yet sweeps away stagnant and unwholesome vapours, and repays, in future health and fertility, its immediate desolation and ravage." The Earl shook his head; but having neither spirit nor inclination for debate, he suffered the argument to pass uncontested.
"That more than repays me for all I did," said Paul, in a tone of mingled modesty and manliness. "I like the boy," thought Mr. Danforth; "he is certainly quite superior to the common run." "Have you left school?" he inquired, after a pause. "Yes, sir. Last term closed my school life." "Then you have never been in a situation." "Yes, sir." "Indeed! Before you left school?" "No, sir, since."
It lasts from Christmas to Twelfth Night, during which period crowds of people flock to see it; and it well repays a visit. The simple meaning of the term Presepio is a manger, but it is also used in the Church to signify a representation of the birth of Christ. In the Ara Celi the whole of one of the side-chapels is devoted to this exhibition.
She gave him her hand with a sweet smile, and despite his ill-humor, Louis could not suppress a throb as he saw how brilliantly beautiful she was. "You have made us wait, madame," said he, "but your appearance to-day repays us for your tardiness."
Tie the ends together with strips of fine husk and put in boiling water for twenty minutes. Either veal or pork may be used instead of chicken. Polenti, properly prepared, is a dish that requires much labor, and scarcely repays for the time and exertion spent in its making.
Winter crops are given up, and summer cultivation tried for a time; but the increasing humidity, and the saline matter communicated to the earth which affects the taste of all its products, even to the grasses, which the cattle refuse to touch at last compel the husbandman to abandon his fields and leave uncultivated a soil that no longer repays his labor."
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