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"While we lay in the road Admiral Byron arrived, in the Princess Royal from England, who, being short of men, and we having a surplusage for a packet, many of our men were ordered on board the Princess Royal, and among them most of our boat's crew. "Soon after, some of the officers going on shore, I was ordered into the boat. We landed at the Governor's slip it being then near night.
We have fallen from that state of grace which capacity to enjoy a walk implies. It cannot be said that as a people we are so positively sad, or morose, or melancholic as that we are vacant of that sportiveness and surplusage of animal spirits that characterized our ancestors, and that springs from full and harmonious life, a sound heart in accord with a sound body.
The German emperor of that day made the usual offer: he would grant to the destroyer of the dragon, any one solitary thing he might ask for; for he had a surplusage of daughters, and it was customary for dragon-killers to take a daughter for pay. So the most renowned knights came from the four corners of the earth and retired down the dragon's throat one after the other. A panic arose and spread.
Beside some of the later manifestations of individual genius in French painting, it is almost academic. In Corot, anyone, I suppose, can see this note, and it would be surplusage to insist upon it. He is the ideal classic-romantic painter, both in temperament and in practice.
The German emperor of that day made the usual offer: he would grant to the destroyer of the dragon, any one solitary thing he might ask for; for he had a surplusage of daughters, and it was customary for dragon-killers to take a daughter for pay. So the most renowned knights came from the four corners of the earth and retired down the dragon's throat one after the other. A panic arose and spread.
"What's that?" The outlaw broke off the snatch of opera he was singing to slew his head round at McWilliams. "I said two. Any objections, seh?" "Yes. That wasn't in the contract." "We're giving y'u surplusage, that's all. Y'u wanted one of us, and y'u get two. We don't charge anything for the extra weight," grinned Mac. "Oh, Mac, will you go with him?" cried Helen, with shining eyes.
The profits go semi-annually to the Treasurer of the Mother-Church. Mrs. Eddy owns the Treasurer. Eddy's knowledge and consent. Every candidate for employment in a high capacity or a low one, on the other periodicals or in the publishing house, must first be "accepted by Mrs. Eddy as suitable." And "by the Board of Directors" which is surplusage, since Mrs. Eddy owns the Board.
Upon the observer there was impressed the conviction that here was a skull denoting, by surplusage of length, great precision of character and disposition to action, and, by deficiency of breadth, a narrow tenacity which might at times amount to wrong-headedness.
Hers had been low and intense, pulsing with the passion that would out. His had held its even way. "I hate myself now, that I have had you here so long, that I have been the dupe of a common cheat." "All right. 'Nough said, ma'am. More would certainly be surplusage. I'll not trouble you any longer now.
A literary, and a very powerful literary side, Millet undoubtedly has; and instead of being a weakness in him it is a power. His sentimental appeal is far from being surplusage, but, as is not I think popularly appreciated, it is subordinate, and the fact of its subordination gives it what potency it has.
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