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"Miss Thoroughbung is " "Go on, Matthew." "Well; she is a sow's ear. Ain't she, now? The servants here never would have looked upon her as a silk purse." "Wouldn't they?" "Never! She has a way with her just as though she didn't care for silk purses. And it's my mind, sir, that she don't. She wishes, however, to be uppermost, and if she had come here she'd have said so." "That can never be.
But it was only an old raven, flying westward to unearth a sow's ear which it had buried. "You're kicking up the dust!" cried Cousin Hans. Ola did not hear. "He's quite as deaf as Aunt Maren," thought Hans. "You're kicking up the dust!" he shouted, louder. "Oh, I beg your pardon!" said Cousin Ola, and lifted his feet high in air at every step.
You must pay the money I am out of pocket to the last farthing, and you will find the sum no small one. You would have listened to a comedian, or a reciter, or a harp-player, or perhaps to all, as I am such a lavish host. But you preferred to dine elsewhere, where I know not off oysters, sow's matrices, sea-urchins, and to watch Spanish dancing girls!
Before Orientals can attain anything approaching to the British ideal of self-government, they will have to undergo very numerous transmigrations of political thought." And Lord Cromer concludes pessimistically: "It will probably never be possible to make a Western silk purse out of an Eastern sow's ear."
In an emergency, Rud always knew how to appeal to his good qualities and turn them to his own advantage. And through all this they were the best friends in the world, and were quite inseparable. Pelle was always looking toward "the Sow's" cottage when he was alone, and Rud ran off from home as soon as he saw his opportunity.
An' I'm not goin' to be happy here, ayther." "I don't want to be a lady. An' they won't make me one ayther if I can help it. 'Ye can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, that's what me father always said. An' that's what I am. I'm a sow's ear." She stopped, her eyes fixed on the ground. Jerry was more than moved at this entirely human and natural outbreak.
Just wait till he gits close enough. I ain't to be deceived by my own sow's dead skin, with a great big Osage in it, nohow you can fix it." Sneak's conjecture was right. The Indian that Joe had killed was a chief, and the apparent sow was nothing more than a savage enveloped in a swine's skin.
"I can't afford to spend no more on 'ee," said Tom sorrowfully, and he made up his mind to take her to market the very next day before she got any worse. So, early the following morning they started off to walk to the market. Tom tied a string around the sow's leg to prevent her running away, but there was little enough fear of her doing that, for the poor thing could scarcely stand for weakness.
Lidgerwood is going to try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, beginning with the pay-roll contingent. If I have sized him up right, he'll be kept busy; too busy to remember your name or mine." "What do you mean? in just so many words." "Nothing more than I have said. Mr. Lidgerwood is a gentleman and a scholar." "Ha!" said the man in the buckboard seat.
Now he saw house upon house, patches of yellow corn-land and green meadows; and food was so scarce that a gentlemanly old raven had to fly miles and miles for a paltry sow's ear. Oh, those men! those men! The old bird knew them. He had grown up among men, and, what was more, among the aristocracy. He had passed his childhood and youth at the great house close to the town.
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