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Larkin, but her tone was constrained. She quickly shut the lid of the trunk. There was only one thing among its contents which she was anxious to hide, but that Miss Melinda's sharp eyes had already discovered. Unfortunately, the tin box was at one side, in plain sight. "What on earth does Mrs. Larkin do with a tin box?" she asked herself, with eager curiosity.
Drusilla said she could always tell where to find him "a-studyin' them tin clothes." One sunshiny day they decided to visit the Doane home. John did not want to go where there were so many women, but Drusilla insisted. "I want 'em to see a man, John. They're shet up all day with nothin' but women, and they're tired of seein' 'em." "But I'm an old man, Drusilla."
"Full of courage," replied the Lion, who went joyfully back to his friends to tell them of his good fortune. Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his success in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion exactly what they thought they wanted. "How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?
Now these are not like other of their absurdities, gathered by argument from their suppositions or drawn by consequence from their doctrines; but they themselves proclaim it aloud in their writings concerning the gods, Providence, Fate, and Nature, expressly saying that all the other gods were born, and shall die by the fire, melting away, in their opinion, as if they were of wax or tin.
When The Boy got as far as a room of his own, papered with scenes from circus-posters, and peopled by tin soldiers, he used to play that his bed was the barge Mayflower, running from Barrytown to the foot of Jay Street, North River, and that he was her captain and crew.
One of the boys had found a tin can and was beating on it, and the sounds made her head feel bad. She staggered on, looking on the ground because of the sun's strong glare. When she found that her feet had reached the patch of rutted ground that was around the gate, she sobbed with thankfulness.
The Princess was just about to order Eureka's head chopped off with the Tin Woodman's axe when that brilliant personage once more arose and addressed her. "Your Highness," said he, "see how easy it is for a jury to be mistaken. The kitten could not have eaten your piglet for here it is!"
He lifted a black tin box from the depths of the vault, carried it to the table, sat down, and opened it. Near the top, were numerous papers tied into packages with red tape, and two large envelopes carefully sealed with dark-green wax.
This one in the midst explains suffering, inspires heroism, is the promise and the potency of all the possibilities of the sons of men. The Sovereignty of Service Self and Service My Soul or My Service The Satisfaction of Service The fruits of sacrifice become the roots of love. A tin halo makes a fine trap for a man to tangle himself in.
Porthos looked at D'Artagnan, quite amazed at the resources with which his companion's Gascon sharpness continually supplied him. D'Artagnan took up his camp tin cup, filled it with wine and arose. "Gentlemen," said he, "let us drink to him who presides at the repast. Here's to our colonel, and let him know that we are always at his commands as far as London and farther."
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