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I then produced some cigarettes, and offered them to the male element. They were enchanted, laid aside their pipes, and conversed with more animation than ever; but it was only occasionally that I caught a word I could understand; the sentence "twee tozen Engelman dood" recurred with distressing frequency, and enabled me to grasp their conversation was entirely about the war.

He showed her how to place the arrow, and she made one or two valiant attempts to send it flying through the wood. "It is hard," she panted; "the arrow don't seem even to make the least little pwick. Now, I want to shoot stwaight at that oak twee, or would you mind awfu', Apollo, if I was to shoot at you?" "All right," replied Apollo; "you may aim at my hand, if you like."

At eleven o'clock Friday morning Mary Gowd called at the Gregg's hotel, according to appointment. In far-away Batavia, Illinois, Mrs. Gregg had heard of Mary Gowd. And Mary Gowd, with her knowledge of everything Roman from the Forum to the best place at which to buy pearls was to be the staff on which the Greggs were to lean. "My husband," said Mrs. Gregg; "my daughter Twee er Eleanora.

"You must ask me questions, child. How are you ever going to learn to talk properly if you don't ask me questions?" "Yes, auntie." "What's that over there?" "Twee." "Say tree, not twee." "Tree." "Now look at me. Put that wretched doll down.... Now.... That's right. Now tell me what you've been doing this morning." "Say 'drew, not 'dwew." "Drew." All this was very exhausting to Aunt Emily.

"I've allus taen care that t' moors hae bin cropped fair; thou reckons thou'll feed mair yowes an' lambs on t' moors when thou's bigged thy walls; but thou weant, thou'll feed less. I know mair about sheep nor thou does, and I tell thee thou'll not get thy twee hinds to tend 'em same as a shepherd that's bred an' born on t' moors." "We sal see about that," Metcalfe answered sullenly.

There checking his triumphant squadrons, he recalled his stragglers, and returned with abated speed into his own country. Halting on the north bank of the Twee, he sent to their quarters those hands which belonged to the border castles, and then marched leisurely forward, that his brave soldiers, who had sustained the weight of the battle, might recover their exhausted strength.

This stick and wreath they call their 'Palm Paschen, which really means Palm-Sunday, and may have been so called because they make the wreath on that day. Down the village streets they go, singing all the while and waving the wreath above their heads: Palm, Palm Paschen, Hei koekerei. Weldra is het Paschen Dan hebben wy een ei. Een ei twee ei, Het derde is het Paschei.

These directions the young woman followed just as they had been given to her, and in a short time she heard her son, now grown up, going out to hunt, with his dog, calling out to him, "Peewaubik Spirit-Iron Twee! Twee!" The dog soon came into the lodge, and she set before him the dish of grape-juice. "See, my child," she said, addressing him, "the pretty drink your mother gives you."

And Birdie Brown sang Twirrrr twitter twirrrr twee Apples and cherries, roses and honey; Little Boy Blue has listened to me All so jolly and funny. DIAMOND managed with many blunders to read this rhyme to his mother. "Isn't it nice, mother?" he said. "Yes, it's pretty," she answered. "I think it means something," returned Diamond. "I'm sure I don't know what," she said.

The Interviewer yapped at his heels whithersoever he went, and the Correspondent strove to lure him into confidences, and Society fluttered at him with shrill squawkings, and wanted to know, don't you know? It must have been "devey" and "twee" to have gone through all those experiences. It was the year when "devey," and "twee," and similar abbreviations first became fashionable.