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"He was tried for being an accessory before the crime, but his counsel put forward the plea of his age, and that he had been under the influence of Maud. He has been sent to a reformatory for a good number of years. He may improve." "Huh!" grunted the old gentleman, "and silk purses may be made out of sow's ears; but not in our time, my boy. We'll hear more of that juvenile scoundrel yet.
She asserted she allowed herself great freedom of speech that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. It displeased her that he should come to Hyndsville. She thought it showed a malignant nature and a peculiar shamelessness that he chose to reside next door to Hynds House, from which his great-great-grandfather had been so ignominously driven.
And anyhow his grandmother was saved. "Yes," he said, yielding; "and it certainly could breathe. Well, then, it was its spirit flying up that overturned the stone that's what it was!" A distant sound reached them, and far off near the cottage they could see the figure of a fat woman, beckoning threateningly. "The Sow's calling you," said Pelle.
I met several rubs in my way, but by the help of my good angel, I broke through them all: This is truth; it is as easie to make a hunting-horn of a sow's tail, as to get into this company. What make ye in a dump now, like a goat at a heap of stones?"
Races that have good traits built up good countries there abroad and they will in the same way build up the country here. Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here. This has been common knowledge so long that it has become a proverb: "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Proverbs are the condensed wisdom of the ages.
After I've charged off in my inventory for wear and tear and depreciation, I deduct a little more just for luck bad luck. That's the only sort of luck a merchant can afford to make a part of his calculations. The fellow who said you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear wasn't on to the packing business. You can make the purse and you can fill it, too, from the same critter.
"Hum!" said Natty Bell, "quite a tidy sum, John." "Come list, all ye fighting gills And coves of boxing note, sirs, While I relate some bloody mills In our time have been fought, sirs." "Yes, a good deal can be done wi' such a sum as that, John." "But it can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, Natty Bell, nor yet a gentlemen out o' you or me or Barnabas here."
Ambrose hid the parcel for her deep in his bosom before he asked permission of his master to go to the Dragon court with the rest of the tidings. "He always was an unmannerly cub," said Master Headley, as he read the letter. "Well, I've done my best to make a silk purse of a sow's ear!
"'Is the sow flitted? cries the carle; 'Gie me an answer, short and plain Is the sow flitted, yammerin' wean?" To which the answer is "'The sow, deil tak her, 's ower the water, And at her back the Crawfords clatter; The Carrick couts are cowed and bitted." Hereupon the laird's exultation breaks forth, "'My thumb for Jock the sow's flitted!"
The dinner itself consisted of sow's udder; boar's-head; fish-pasties; boar- pasties; ducks; boiled teals; hares; roasted fowls; starch-pastry; Pontic pastry. II. III. Laws Imposing Taxes V. V. Preparations of the Anarchists in Etruria IV. VII. Economic Crisis I. XI. Manumission II. III. Continued Distress
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