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The meshes of this net are about as fine as those of a very delicate silk purse, and the gaudiness of the color and the size of the fungus make it a very prominent object, among the surrounding vegetation. In fact, it is a diminutive, though perfect circular tent of net-work, the stem of the fungus forming the pole in the centre. I shall never forget my first introduction to this specimen.
Fox steps softly in, rustling in the same black taffeta she always wears, and the same black silk bonnet, worn just fifty-two days in a year, and carefully pinned and boxed away for all the other three hundred and thirteen.
Educated in the silk and purple of the East, Manuel possessed the iron temper of a soldier, which cannot easily be paralleled, except in the lives of Richard the First of England, and of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden. Such was his strength and exercise in arms, that Raymond, surnamed the Hercules of Antioch, was incapable of wielding the lance and buckler of the Greek emperor.
But the final pause was in this direction, and then came a sharp rat-tat at the door. Amy rose immediately and went to open. Jasper Milvain raised his urban silk hat, then held out his hand with the greeting of frank friendship. His inquiries were in so loud a voice that Amy checked him with a forbidding gesture. 'You'll wake Willie! 'By Jove! I always forget, he exclaimed in subdued tones.
In the piece at Florence the effect of the sun shining through a tree is thus produced by gold leaf under the broidery of tree-leaves. Silver leaf is employed for water, with blue silk drawn in lines over it. So with the sea. There seemed to be silver burnished to its greatest polish below, over which the water was drawn as a blue lacquer. And Nice.
He left here a softened and, I hope, a changed boy; and I feel sure this appeal to the generosity of his old schoolfellows will secure for him what he most desires your forgiveness." There was a silence, and every face was grave, as the doctor concluded, "I wish I could say as much of his companion, and I fear, leader in wrong Silk."
The javelin of Siegfried was two spans broad in the blade, and had a double edge. Terrible were the wounds that it made. Their bridles were gilded, and their horse-girths of silk. A comely sight they were to see, and the people came from all round to gaze upon them.
On the present evening, Miss Roxy sat bolt upright, as was her wont, in one corner of the fireplace, with her spectacles on her nose, and an unwonted show of candles on the little stand beside her, having resumed the task of the silk dress which had been for a season interrupted. Mrs.
The water was already arranged for and the wagon containing the casks was at Buck's adobe house. On the floor of the wagon, packed in bunch grass, were the precious gasoline casks. On top of all came the silk waterproof tent and the camp equipage.
'Oh, blow that! said Master Bates: drawing two or three silk handkerchiefs from his pocket, and tossing them into a cupboard, 'that's too mean; that is. 'I couldn't do it, said the Dodger, with an air of haughty disgust. 'You can leave your friends, though, said Oliver with a half smile; 'and let them be punished for what you did.
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