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Updated: July 28, 2025
Be this as it may, I thought of my Uncle Toby and the fly; and so, in lieu of placing it upon the deck, and then putting my thumb-nail vertically upon it, I quietly chucked it amongst some baggage that was close by and recommended it to get ashore by the first opportunity.
A little piece of onion the size of a thumb-nail, chopped as small as possible, would be sufficient to flavour two small meat pies four inches in diameter. And a pie this size would be quite large enough for a purpose such as this. Some time ago I gave a few hints as to the best method of making raised pies, therefore I do not need to repeat them now.
Will that give you some idea of the happiness and the consolation that I owe to this best and dearest of men? "Ah, my old granny, I see you start, and make that favourite mark with your thumb-nail under the word 'consolation'! I hear you say to yourself, 'Is she unhappy in her English home? And is Aunt Gallilee to blame for it? Yes! it is even so.
I think they were grey, but I couldn't be sure." "And as to the coachman. He wore a wig, you said. Could you see the colour of his eyes? Or any peculiarity by which you could recognize him?" "He had a malformed thumb-nail on his right hand. That is all I can say about him." "He didn't strike you as resembling Weiss in any way; in voice or features?"
"My father, my mother, the long river, the staircase under which I hid when they came." "How came you to lose your thumb-nail?" "My brother hammered it off a long time ago, when I was a very little girl at my father's house." "Do you know how many brothers and sisters you had?" She then mentioned them, and in the order of their ages. "Would you know your name if you should hear it repeated?"
Teresa made another approving mark with her thumb-nail; and Carmina purchased tickets. The music-seller hurried to the door to stop the first empty cab that might pass. Carmina showed a deplorable ignorance of the law of chances. She shrank from the bare idea of getting into a cab. "We may run over some other poor creature," she said. "If it isn't a dog, it may be a child next time."
"They're conservative, you know." This was now almost revolutionary. As far as Pelle could see, there would soon be no place as big as his thumb-nail for capital to feed upon out there. The farmers went about things so quickly! Pelle came of peasant stock himself, and did not doubt that he would be able to get in touch with the country when the time came.
You remember the astonishment and incredulity of Atahualpa the Peruvian King; how he made the Spanish Soldier who was guarding him scratch Dios on his thumb-nail, that he might try the next soldier with it, to ascertain whether such a miracle was possible. If Odin brought Letters among his people, he might work magic enough!
The ritual prescribed that a plank of apple wood, about two inches thick, about two feet wide and about three feet long, should be placed on a firm support, upon which it would rest solidly without any tendency to joggle. At its middle was bored a small circular depression, about the size of a man's thumb-nail and shallow.
On it one could dimly make out, in almost obliterated pencil, the outline of the bay. "Here," said Evans, "is the reef, and here is the gap." He ran his thumb-nail over the chart. "This curved and twisting line is the river I could do with a drink now! and this star is the place."
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