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A sterling old chap, mind you, so far as mere character is concerned; the right man in the right place; but as gullible and as soft-hearted as a tom-tit. I've said all this before, I know, Mrs Lawford, and been properly snubbed for my pains. But if I had been Bethany I'd have sifted the whole story at the beginning, the moment he put his foot into the house.
"Drink, you tom-tit!" said the boy, catching the tumbler from the old gentleman, and applying it to his friend's lips. Bax smiled, drank, and fell back on the pillow with a deep sigh of satisfaction.
As like a storm as a tom-tit is to an albatross," he answered. My astonishment at finding myself among the line-of-battle ships at Spithead was very great. What huge floating castles they appeared what crowds of human beings there were on board, swarming in every direction, like ants round their nest. In a few moments a wonderful expansion of my ideas took place.
Sir Alured has issue, Alured Caradoc, born 1819, Marian, 1811, Blanche Adeliza, Emily Doria, Adelaide Obleans, Katinka Rostopchin, Patrick Flack, died 1809. 'Arms a mullion garbled, gules on a saltire reversed of the second. Crest a tom-tit rampant regardant. Motto UNG ROY UNG MOGYNS. It was long before Lady de Mogyns shone as a star in the fashionable world.
Dress in woollen under-clothing, and rub the body well in the morning with a cloth dipped in salt and water. VIOLET VERNON. We have heard that the homoeopathists have a special cure for such little excrescences. TOM-TIT writes very well. The 2nd of January, 1865, was a Monday. NYMPHIA ALLA. Disease or weakness of the nervous system is often, unhappily, an inheritance from our parents.
The grave Patavinian is still designated by the tom-tit appellation of Tite Live; and the majestic arch, whose history would have been so well illustrated by his lost annals, is tricked out with a poplar avenue, like a summer-house on Clapham-common.
And there, sure enough, was the nest right at the bottom of a deep hole in the tree trunk, the entrance to which was by a hole so small that it seemed impossible for any bird to pass through it; for to look at the size of the tom-tit, his bulk appeared to be double the circumference of the hole; but his downy yielding little feathers gave him an easy passage through; and, as the boys went up to the tree, out he darted with a sharp cry, and flew away.
Ten days after Lady Chaffinch's ball, I was obliged to tear myself away from my kind aunt and my dear cousin, and with only Tom-tit for my companion, to return to this dismal Gorse Bush, which I used to think the sweetest of homes. Now I do nothing but wonder how long it will be before my aunt invites me to London again.
I expect you might have applied to him the remark of the Bishop of Cork on the Dean of Cork 'Excellent sermon! eloquent, clever, argumentative! and not enough gospel in it to save a tom-tit!" Mrs. Flaxman looked at him oddly. "Well, but the extraordinary thing was that Hugh made me stay for the second service, and it was as Ritualistic as you like!"
And then all the birds burst out laughing so heartily at the tiny little fellow's offer, that he grew quite cross, and told the birds to come on; and then he flew into the cedar, and before the great falcon knew what he was going to do, Tom-tit dashed at him, and gave him such a peck with his little sharp beak, that the falcon jumped off his perch and stared about him; and then, before he could find out what was the matter, the jackdaw flew up above him, and came down head over heels on his back; the owl shouted "Who-o-who-o" in his ear; the blackbird and thrush stuck their beaks in his stomach; the sparrows poked him in the back; and the martins and swallows darted round and round him, and under and over, and all the other birds whistled and chattered and fluttered about him at such a rate, that at last the falcon didn't know whom to attack, and was regularly mobbed out of the garden, and flew off with a whole stream of birds after him, and he, in spite of his sharp claws and beak, glad to get out of the way as fast as he could.
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