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Updated: June 14, 2025
And it isn't more presents the Good Will tree hangs full!" "Well, then, what is it, Lucy?" asked Mrs. Van Buren. Little Lucy laughed. "A Chinese Santa Claus, mother! Think what a Santa Claus Sky-High would make in his flowing robes of black, yellow, and white all sprinkled over with silver and gold! Nearly all the gifts are Chinese, you know all but ours for him.
Sky-high, sky-high; higher higher higher higher, Little matey, watch your flier; Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet; Here the merry breezes meet, Where I twitter, circling higher, Watch me flying higher, higher. Low down, low down, nestling in the tussock brown, Little mate, I'm coming down." "Well, that beats the owl hollow," said Mr Specklems to his wife.
His chase to the West Indies was a masterpiece of prescience which saved the British possessions, and, but for the clumsy intelligence he received, the French would have been a hammered wreck and the projected ruse to combine it with the Rochefort squadron off Ireland blown sky-high.
It went up into the mid-air, and fold after fold rolled out, and there appeared a great dragon. All the children on the field stopped in their play to look up at it. The sun turned the dragon to intense red. To all appearance a terrible monster had taken possession of the air! Suddenly the dragon wheeled about and went coiling along towards the overlook, Sky-High following and guiding its course.
"Say mistress, Sky-High." "My master, mistress." "Where did you live in Manchuria?" "In the house of a mandarin." "And who was your master?" "The mandarin, mistress." "Do mandarins in China teach their servants to speak English?" "Some mandarins do, your grace." "Do not say 'your grace, Sky-High, but simply mistress. Ladies have no titles in America. Where is the city in which you lived?"
Present appearances rather indicate that the religious opinions of your father will be blown sky-high." John did not mean quite as much as his language in this reply denoted. "You do not understand me. I respect my parents and their religious opinions, though I doubt some of the doctrines they have taught me.
Cattle is sky-high and goin' up. I don't blame him." "He didn't say a word about that to me." "'Course not. He's not one to say anything till he's plumb sure." "He might have said something" asserted Dorothy. "Didn't he?" chuckled Shoop. Dorothy's face grew rosy. "Your master is very inquisitive," she told Bondsman. "And your little missy is right beautiful this mawnin'," said Shoop.
Boasting and bragging, and with his discourse liberally garnished with "Donner-wetters," and such-like meteorological expressions dear to the Teuton, this big chap let the world at large know what would happen on the great "Day"; when the whole "schwein-hund" Englander nation would, at long last, be knocked sky-high and to everlasting flinders by the ineffable and invincible Army of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
"I wish I could look upon a man like that!" said Charlie. "I hope we shall see that mandarin when we go to China." "That will be easy," said Sky-High. The family sailed away from the Pacific coast in the spring. Mr. and Mrs.
There was a famous cook Emeline Simmons a mulatto woman, who was equally at home in French dishes and Maryland-Virginia kitchen mysteries a very wonder with canvasback and terrapin who later refused a great money offer to he chef at the White House whom John was able to secure. Nothing could surpass could equal her preparations. The charges, like the victuals, were sky-high and tip-top.
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