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Beat up the yolks and whites of three eggs, strain them through a sieve, gradually add to them a quarter of a pint of milk, and stir it well together. Rub in a mortar two ounces of moist sugar, with as much grated nutmeg as will lie on a six-pence, and stir these into the eggs and milk.
If a member only of a poor family be sick, the head still remains to procure necessaries; but if that head be disordered, the whole source of supply is dried up, which evinces the utility of such institutions. The general custom is to meet at the public every fortnight, spend a trifle, and each contribute six-pence, or any stated sum, to the common stock.
The only reason why I have not laid violent hands on you heretofore is that your vapid talk has operated as a wire to conduct my electricity to the receptive and kindly earth; but if you intrude upon my magnetisms without any such life-preserver, your future in this world is not worth a crossed six-pence. Your silence would break the reed that your talk but bruised.
There's the bus fare there and back six-pence, mind you and a wasted morning. Who's going to recompense me, I should like to know? I'm not made of sixpences." Burton's hand slipped into his pocket. The little old gentleman sniffed. "You needn't insult me, young fellow," he declared. "I've a friend or two here and I'll set about letting them know the truth." He was as good as his word.
If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds, what remains for all the rest of the nation? WILKES. 'You know, in the last war, the immense booty which Thurot carried off by the complete plunder of seven Scotch isles; he re-embarked with three and six-pence. Here again Johnson and Wilkes joined in extravagant sportive raillery upon the supposed poverty of Scotland, which Dr.
As he stopped to point out the road to her, she put her hand in her pocket to get the six-pence ready, and when he was turning away, without saying good-morning, she held it out to him and said, "Thank you; will you please to take something for your trouble?" He looked slowly at the sixpence, and then said, "I want none o' your money.
"Mary Somerfield, the astronomer, while busy with her children in the nursery, wrote her 'Mechanism of the Heavens, without neglecting her duties as a mother." "Julius Caesar, while a military officer and politician found time to write his Commentaries known throughout the world." William Cobbett says: "I learned grammar when I was a private soldier on a six-pence a day.
The true man is superior to circumstances or accidents. "Then I am neither wise nor good, for I have lost my all, and it comes confoundedly amiss to me." "Your all? That's what the shoemaker said; but he bought a new one for six-pence. But, how happened it?" "By my folly." "I knew that, of course; but I wanted to know what folly in particular."
"Do!" he snorted, "Write and tell 'em when they've got any kind of job on the size of six-pence I'll be in it! And if not Tibet's about as useful to draw up a report on as ice in the hunting season and I'm off in March and that's that!" A tear rolled down Estelle's cheek and splashed on the tablecloth; she trembled harder until her teaspoon rattled. Winn looked at her.
To make good several sums issued by his majesty, for indemnifying the inn-holders and victuallers of Hampshire for the expenses they had incurred in quartering the Hessian auxiliaries in England; for an addition to the salaries of judges, and other less considerable purposes, they allowed the sum of twenty-six thousand one hundred and seventy-eight pounds sixteen shillings and six-pence.
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