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Updated: June 5, 2025
"He gets up early in the morn, like all the other nigs, And runs off to the hog-lot, where he squabbles with the pigs And when the sun gets out of bed, and mounts up in the sky, The warmest corner of the yard is where my nig doth lie.
You've made him a man of low character; you show him up all through the book as perpetually mixing in petty squabbles, sir; on one occasion you actually allow him to get drunk Now what do you mean by it? 'Good heavens, said Mark, with a laugh, 'you don't seriously mean to tell me you consider all this personal? 'I do very seriously mean to tell you so, young gentleman, said Mr.
A stranger, who has no interest in party squabbles, must confess that the funds of this wealthy estate are on the whole fairly and wisely distributed.
They were compelled to play an ignominious part in the squabbles of the Eastern Churches, they were loaded with onerous secular duties; they became the emblems and the agents of an alien tyranny, mistrusted alike by the barbarian invaders and the nominal subjects of the Empire. Other critics have explained the prestige of the Papacy as the fruit of successful impostures.
Upon these facts a long argument was entered into, on both sides, to the great edification of a number of persons interested in the parochial squabbles, who crowded the court; and when some very long and grave speeches had been made pro and con, the red-faced gentleman in the tortoise-shell spectacles took a review of the case, which occupied half an hour more, and then pronounced upon Sludberry the awful sentence of excommunication for a fortnight, and payment of the costs of the suit.
Oh, the sad old pages, the dull old pages! Oh, the cares, the ennui, the squabbles, the repetitions, the old conversations over and over again! But now and again a kind thought is recalled, and now and again a dear memory. Yet a few chapters more, and then the last: after which, behold Finis itself come to an end, and the Infinite begun.
He delighted in telling the origin of his good fortune, which he said he entirely owed to a bad wife. When he was first married, he said, finding no remedy against domestic squabbles, he used to quit his bad half and go and enjoy himself with his good friends, who were Hungarians and Germans, for weeks together.
She was forever making him forgive wrongs, or what he fancied to be wrongs, and causing him seem at fault in all his squabbles, so that he was often heard to say, when things went as he didn't want them: "I don't know whether I am to blame or the other fellow until Kate hears the story." His illiteracy and lack of polish were the secret grief of the rich man's life.
By the way, Phil, you're an awfully good dancer." "I'm glad there's something about me that pleases your ladyship." "Yes; so am I. It certainly isn't your temper!" And then Philip smiled into Patty's eyes, and peace was restored, as it always was after their little squabbles. The dance over, they sat for a few moments, and then Kenneth Harper asked to be Patty's next partner.
So we went back to her home again, but before I completed my plans for settling down in Keene, Mary and I had several quarrels which were worse than mere ordinary matrimonial squabbles. Two or three young men in Keene, with whom I had become acquainted, twitted me with marrying Mary, and told me enough about her to convince me that her former life had not been altogether what it should have been.
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