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She consulted her solicitor and was advised to sell her Consols and invest in the London and North-Western Railway, then at about 85. This was to her what eating snails was to the poor widow whose story I have told above. With shame and grief, as of one doing an unclean thing but her boys must have their start she did as she was advised.
I stared hard at him, and he gave me a sidelong look, after which he gave three or four of the snails a thrust with a bit of stick to where they would cook better, took up another, and wriggled it out with the pin.
It is only when he is seen with the sun shining upon him that the cobalt blue patches in his plumage are noticed. His habit is to perch on the boulders which are washed by the foaming waters of a mountain torrent. On these he finds plenty of insects and snails, which constitute the chief items on his menu.
There are many varieties of this plant cultivated in flower gardens on account of the curious shapes of the seed-pods, some having a distant resemblance to snails' horns, cater-pillars, &c. under which names they are sold in the seed-shops. It grows in sandy hilly soils; the wild kind has flat pods. MEDICAGO sativa.
I remember a thrush had the confidence to snatch out of my hand with his bill a piece of cake that Glumdalclitch had just given me for my breakfast. When I attempted to catch any of these birds they would boldly turn against me, endeavoring to pick my fingers, which I durst not venture within their reach; and then they would hop back unconcerned to hunt for worms and snails as they did before.
This orb this round Of sight and sound Count it the lists that God hath built For haughty hearts to ride a-tilt. "FINIS-Master Tucker's Farewell." "And a very pretty moral on four gentlemen that pass their afternoon a setting snails to race!" At these words, spoken in a delicate foreign voice we all started round: and saw a young lady standing behind us.
On we would go through the cold of dying day, the sun, over beyond the Rhône, dipping toward the Cévennes; leafless trees, red in low sun-rays; black lines of cypress; in the fields an old woman with a fagot on her head; beside the road an old man scratching under the hedge for snails. "Where are you going, little ones?" "We are going to meet the Kings!"
"I anticipated my fate to be a lonely meal, for the rascals worked like snails, and I would not leave them rest until all was finished. Faith, the odor is appetizing, and I am hungry as a bear." The younger priest waved his hand to the engagé, yet asked softly: "Monsieur Chevet he is delayed also?" "He will sup with his men tonight," returned Cassion shortly, seating himself on the bench.
"We know all that, but why we should have a Helix in our ears is as unknown to the book as to the dealer in snails " "I'm not a dealer in snails," bellowed the voice behind the curtain. "What are you, then?" Victor bellowed back. "I'm ... a troll!"
Or his eyes dwelt upon the huge column just in front of him now scanning its superb proportions, now enjoying the hue of the sunny-golden travertine, now observing the myriad crevices of its time-eaten surface, the petrified forms of vegetable growth, the little pink snails that housed within its chinks.
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