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Updated: May 22, 2025
"A good substantial mole, overlooked by a small battery, with some respectable-sized houses in the rear, gives the settlement rather an imposing appearance from the water, which I imagine is the object at present aimed at to make an impression on the visiting Malays, the success of the colony depending so much on them."
He saw a world of tiny squares intersected by thin white lines. These were main roads. He saw little dewdrops of water occurring at irregular intervals. They were really respectable-sized lakes. Beneath him were two irregular scratches against the dull green-brown of earth that stretched interminably north and south. They ran parallel at irregular distances apart.
I can take care of myself along with some of my money here in San Francisco. I don't care to handle my business affairs yet, but I do want a bank account, a respectable-sized one. I want to spend it as I see fit, for what I see fit." The guardians looked their dismay at one another. "It's ridiculous, impossible," Mr. Crockett began. "You are as unreasonable as you were before you went away."
Holly and I had passed whole afternoons in gathering hazel-nuts which grew near a fence not far from the house; and having filled a very respectable-sized bag with them, I felt quite impatient at the idea of returning home well-laden with supplies, like any prudent housekeeper.
At this juncture, when one's thoughts are swayed and influenced by an appetite that the cold day and hard tugging through the hills have rendered well-nigh uncontrollable, a prosperous-looking Persian traveller, returning from a pilgrimage to Meshed with his wives, family, and servitors, quite a respectable-sized retinue, emerges from the seclusion of his quarters to see the bicycle.
The handbag lay open on the desk, surrounded by a respectable-sized fortune in bank-notes. "Pretty much all that the Honorable Ely has left me," he added. "Is it enough to go on with, Ned?" I asked. He smiled at me. "Plenty for my time. You forget." For the moment I had forgotten. "But what on earth are you going to do with all that ready cash?" "Carry out a brilliant idea.
As late as 1883 there were only one or two fishermen's huts along the bay, but in 1892 the settlement contained a score of Europeans, over 2800 Japanese souls, and 1000 Chinese, besides quite a respectable-sized native conglomeration of houses and huts. When I visited the port, land fetched large sums of money in the central part of the settlement.
At the same time he perceived that the Neo-Malthusian system might be abused that is to say, rich persons who could well afford to bring up respectable-sized families might be tempted to restrict the number to one or two.
Its immense, unpainted gable, cut with holes for the swallows, was like a section of a respectable-sized hill, and its roof like its slope.
Take care, don't touch it as it floats by; it looks like a bit of charred stick, but indeed it is half-burnt human bones! We have already seen a few sacred rivers in our wanderings the gigantic Nile, the tiny Jordan, and now we see the Ganges, which in size comes between the two, being one thousand four hundred and fifty-five miles in length. Quite a respectable-sized river that!
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