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O'Brien reported the rate of sailing to the master, marked it down on the log-board, and then returned. "So now, my boy, I'll come to an anchor on the top-sail halyard rack, and you may squeeze your thread-paper little carcass under my lee, and then I'll tell you all about it.
I should be worn to a thread-paper with all this extra work atop of my winter weavin' and spinnin'," laughed their mother, as she plunged her plump arms into the long bread-trough and began to knead the dough as if a famine was at hand. Tilly, the oldest girl, a red-cheeked, black-eyed lass of fourteen, was grinding briskly at the mortar, for spices were costly, and not a grain must be wasted.
That's the reason we always spar in bed. She says it is I, and I know that it is she, who takes the largest share of it." "Perhaps you may both be right." "No, no, it is she who creates all the disturbance. If I get nearer to the wall she jams me up till I am as thin as a thread-paper. If I put her inside and stay outside, she cuts me out as you do a cask, by the chine, till I tumble out of bed."
'D'you think a woman doesn't love an easy husband? And wouldn't rather have a good fellow than a thread-paper? 'Mr. Pomeroy! Mr. Pomeroy! the tutor said. Such words used of a lord shocked him. 'A milksop! A thing of curds and whey! 'After marriage, yes, the tutor muttered, pitching his voice cleverly in Lord Almeric's ear, and winking as he leant towards him.
Flaxman, glancing to the right, saw a group of men standing, and amongst them a slight sharp-featured thread-paper of a man, with a taller companion, whom he identified as the pair he had noticed on the night of the story-telling.
O'Brien reported the rate of sailing to the master, marked it down on the log-board, and then returned. "So now, my boy, I'll come to an anchor on the topsail halyard rack, and you may squeeze your thread-paper little carcass under my lee, and then I'll tell you all about it.
We fear, indeed, that he even left the invoice on his desk unfinished, with the last i imperfect. Bursting into his father's house, he found Madge now become a pretty little slip of feminine thread-paper seated at the piano agonising over a chord which her hand was too small to compass.
Vansittart was an exceptionally tall man, a thread-paper of a man, and a very bad actor. He was exceedingly noisy, and pushed vivacity to its extreme limits.
"Job himself would have lost his temper if he had been a revenue officer at Weymouth," Lieutenant Downes would exclaim angrily. "Why, sir, I would rather lie for three months off the mouth of an African river looking for slavers, than be stationed at Weymouth in search of smuggling craft, for a month; it is enough to wear a man to a thread-paper.
Pompiers, fumistes, makers of respectable pommade as the painter's potations increased, his English became less fluent, and he was driven back constantly to the dialect of the Paris ateliers, which was more familiar to him than his mother tongue. Ah! how he hated these people and their thread-paper morality, and their sordid conception of art a prettiness that would sell!
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