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"That's curious; why so?" "I'll tell you. If the disguise is complete I am disgusted, for the shape of a woman is much more marked than that of a man, and consequently a woman in man's dress, who looks like a man, cannot have a good figure." "But when a woman skews her shape well?"
They say every Sunday night he'll go up to Bardlocks' and call on Anna Belle from half-past six till nine, and when he's got into his chair he sets and looks at the floor and the crayon portraits till about seven; then he opens his tremblin' lips and says, 'Reckon Schofields' must be on his way to the court-house by this time. And about an hour later, when Schofields' hits four or five, he'll speak up again, 'Say, I reckon he means eight. 'Long towards nine o'clock, they say he skews around in his chair and says, 'Wonder if he'll strike before time or after, and Anna Belle answers out loud, 'I hope after, for politeness; but in her soul she says, 'I pray before'; and then Schofields' hits her up for eighteen or twenty, and Anna Belle's company reaches for his hat.
The obstinacy of the French academy in refusing to adopt foreign words skews more pride than wisdom. This exclusiveness cannot last. As for us we take words from all languages and all sources, provided they suit the genius of our own language. We love to see our riches increase; we even steal from the poor, but to do so is the general characteristic of the rich.
"That's curious; why so?" "I'll tell you. If the disguise is complete I am disgusted, for the shape of a woman is much more marked than that of a man, and consequently a woman in man's dress, who looks like a man, cannot have a good figure." "But when a woman skews her shape well?"
The obstinacy of the French academy in refusing to adopt foreign words skews more pride than wisdom. This exclusiveness cannot last. As for us we take words from all languages and all sources, provided they suit the genius of our own language. We love to see our riches increase; we even steal from the poor, but to do so is the general characteristic of the rich.
"Tell him I've got a pair of skews here as will do him credit, and he shall have the two for twenty pounds." "No, no," said Robert; "they're no use at all. We advertised for one large, strong white horse." Mr. Crawley was coming away from the house at this moment, and the man tackled him. "Have the pair, mister," said the man. "They're wonderful together draw a pantechnicon.
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