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In the woods we found a tree which bore fruit that in colour and shape resembled a cherry; the juice had an agreeable tartness, though but little flavour. We found also interspersed some of the finest meadows in the world: Some places, however, were rocky, but these were comparatively few: The stone is sandy, and might be used with advantage for building.
"Why, to tell the truth," said he, "I never had any opinion of Miss Thorn." "You mean you never formed any, I suppose," I returned with some tartness. "Yes, that is it. How darned precise you are getting, Crocker! One would think you were going to write a rhetoric. What put Miss Thorn into your head?" "I have been coaching beside her this afternoon." "Oh!" said Farrar.
With the infinitely delicate sense of youth, Archie avoided the subject from that hour. It was perhaps a pity. But the shadow of a threat of ridicule sufficed; in the slight tartness of these words he read a prohibition; and it is likely that Glenalmond meant it so. Besides the veteran, the boy was without confidant or friend.
Despite its tartness, I fancied that it was a woman's. 'Heaven knows! I answered desperately. 'I cannot tell. They maltreated me at the inn, and threw me into the street. I crawled away, and have been wandering in the wood for hours. Then I saw a light here. On that some muttering took place on the other side of the door to which I had my ear. It ended in the bars being lowered.
Diderot returns in the evening from Holbach's, throws his carpet-bag in at the door, flies off to seek a letter from Mademoiselle Voland, writes one to her, gets back to his house at midnight, finds his daughter ill, puts cheerful and cordial questions to his wife, she replies with a tartness that drives him back into silence. Another time the scene is violent.
It is natural enough to act hastily at such times. But still How many did you kill?" "None," said Hoddan curtly. "I shot them with stun-pistols I'd just charged in the control room of the landing grid." Don Loris sat up straight. "Stun-pistols?" he demanded sharply. "You used stun-pistols on Darth?" "Naturally on Darth," said Hoddan with some tartness. "I was here! But nobody was killed.
The necessity to brave society, in the character of honest Defendant, caused but a momentary twitch of the nerves. Her heart beat regularly, like a serviceable clock; none of her faculties abandoned her save songfulness, and none belied her, excepting a disposition to tartness almost venomous in the sarcastic shafts she let fly at friends interceding with Mr.
Sproul with a decided tartness that was only a reflex of the deep affection she bore the mistress of the Little House, which had existed since childhood and would endure. "I hear some of the cars coming," announced Mrs. Cockrell, as she began to crochet furiously at the last petal of a rose. "Is my cap straight? I do so want to finish this row and can't go in to look." "You'll put out St.
It is much easier to crush than to catch these troublesome insects; and when they are in your power your self-respect spares them. The race is almost extinct: one or two of them are sometimes seen crawling over the pages of the Quarterly Review! A Mr. Rose and the Rev. Dr. Kippis were for many years its principal support. Mrs. There is sometimes a certain tartness and the woman's tongue in it.
"Are not you cold?" he says, perceiving the open window. "Not I!" reply I, brusquely "naught never comes to harm." "I wish you would have a shawl!" he says, as the evening wind comes, with the tartness of autumn, to his face. "Why do not you say, 'do, for my sake! as Algy once said to me, when he mistook me in the dark for Mrs.
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