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It is in the highest degree interpretative, and through it they express their aspirations and ideals, their thirst for combat and their realization of defeat, their fluctuating sentiments and their permanent predispositions. "A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility."
Its metropolis is Pomeroy, in shape a "shoe-string" town, much of it not over two blocks wide, and stretching along for two miles, at the foot of high palisades. West Virginia is not far behind, in enterprise, with the salt-work towns of New Haven, Hartford, and Mason City, bespeaking, in their names, a Connecticut ancestry.
One morning he gave me a packet of papers and a photograph, the lot tied together with a shoe-string. 'Keep this for me, he said. He was lying on his back with closed eyes, and I withdrew quietly, but I heard him mutter, 'Live rightly, die, die . . . I listened. There was nothing more. Was he rehearsing some speech in his sleep, or was it a fragment of a phrase from some newspaper article?
No shoe was fashionable, without being fattened with a full-blown rose. Under the house of Stuart, the rose withered, which gave rise to the shoe-string. The beaus of that age, ornamented their lower tier with double laces of silk, tagged with silver, and the extremities beautified with a small fringe of the same metal.
The race of life has grown intense the runners are on each other's heels. Woe be to him who rests, or stays to tie his shoe-string! Our repast concluded, and Mr Treherne, again taking leave of me until dinner-time, I set out at once for the attic of my unhappy bread-stealer. What was the object of my visit? I had given him a sovereign. What did I intend further to do for him?
Lincoln, a sort of valet for the trip, had hand-bag of toilet essentials, and that she "brushed his hair, and arranged that snaky black necktie of his which would twist up and play the shoe-string in five minutes after adjustment. But it was not she, as thought, who coaxed him into making the lower part of his features become cavernous as strong feeling surged upon him.
You leave her for a year, and write to her twice then you say, Why, where would she have been if she hadn't had something to do? The sun in her hair, hey? Love, my good chap! You don't know how to spell the word. You ought not to touch her shoe-string. You're not fit. By Gad, sir, and now I remember something! And it's the truth, it's the bitter, naked, grinning truth." He did remember something.
Both simultaneously offered their cakes, and Nora took a ladyfinger from each. Abbott laughed and the Barone smiled. "Oh, daddy mine!" sighed Nora drolly. "Huh?" "Don't let mother see those shoes." "What's the matter with 'em? Everybody's wearing the same." "Yes. But I don't see how you manage to do it. One shoe-string is virgin white and the other is pagan brown."
And while Shoop had told Bondsman that he would be away some little time, Bondsman would have known it without the telling. His master had worn a coat a black coat and a new black Stetson. Moreover, he had donned a white shirt and a narrow hint of a collar with a black "shoe-string" necktie.
One morning he gave me a packet of papers and a photograph the lot tied together with a shoe-string. 'Keep this for me, he said. He was lying on his back with closed eyes, and I withdrew quietly, but I heard him mutter, 'Live rightly, die, die... I listened. There was nothing more. Was he rehearsing some speech in his sleep, or was it a fragment of a phrase from some newspaper article?
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