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But I have to call and see the old, old 'Gentleman? 'Gentleman! no, skinflint. He lives upon the sweepings of the barton; ha, ha! And the speaker's regular white teeth showed themselves like snow in a Dutch cabbage. 'Well, well, the profession of arms makes a man proof against all that. I take things as I find 'em. 'Quite right, Master Derriman. Another drop? 'No, no.
So much for the chances which still remain to the devourer of books, if, after having consumed all the solid volumes within his reach, he should be reduced to shreds and patches of literature, like a ship's crew having resort to shoe-leather and the sweepings of the locker. Pretenders.
The sweepings of the League Frenchmen, Walloons, Germans, Italians, Spaniards were tossed into Hungary, because for a season the war had become languid in Flanders. And the warriors grown grey in the religious wars of France astonished the pagans on the Danube by a variety of crimes and cruelties such as Christians only could imagine.
For lying on the paper before him was nothing more than a litter of mortar and wall plaster, interspersed with stone chips. It was nothing more than the sweepings a brick-layer had left behind him, a pile of worthless rubbish, a bundle of refuse, another white elephant on his hands. Trotter stirred the heap of dust and lime, impassively, disdainfully.
I ain't having sweepings from the streets living here as if they had rights." Aunt Kate set her lips. "Sweepings! You've got to take that back, Abel. It's not Christian. You've got to take that back." "He'll take it back all right before we've done, I guess," remarked Black Andy. "He'll take a lot back." "Truth's truth, and I'll stand by it, and "
"The motto does not say a girl can tell us we must do a work that is not ours, and we must mind her. I shall sweep your dirt back," was the warm reply. Cordelia Running Bird gave her broom a sudden push and sent the sweepings flying backward in a cloud. "Now look how mean you are! Again I have to sweep my floor!" cried Hannah Straight Tree, angrily. "Proud vain cross mean!"
"I appreciate that there are certain kinds of farms on which it is impossible to keep either live stock or birds, yet even in such places it is a lazy farmer who lacks manure: for he can collect leaves, rubbish from the hedge rows, and droppings from the high ways: without giving offence, and indeed earning gratitude, he can cut ferns from his neighbour's land: and all these things he can mingle with the sweepings of the courtyard: he can dig a pit, like that we have counselled for the protection of stable manure, and there mix together ashes, sewage, and straw, and indeed every waste thing which is swept up on the place.
In some of the mining towns nearer the source of supply I have known of from one hundred to three hundred dollars a month being thus "blown" from the sweepings of a bar. We ate a frugal breakfast and separated on the agreed business of the day.
And he began to roll before him a heap of grayish sweepings, as if he had done nothing else all his life. Then, he gave bark the broom to the notary, who imitated him. In five minutes, such a cloud of dust filled the studio that Rormantin asked: "Where are you? I can't see you any longer." M. Saval, who was coughing, came near to him.
For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode; and work hard, labouring with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; being injuriously spoken of, we entreat; we are made as the ordures of the world, as the sweepings of all things unto this day.
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