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It was like an enormous unclipped sheep in its fleece, but in size it was far larger than the largest elephant, and its breadth seemed to be nearly as great as its height.
The ivy tossed in branches over the red roof and walls of the house. It had been left unclipped, until it was rather an endlessly clambering tree than a creeper. The hall they entered had the beauty of spacious form and good, old oaken panelling. There were deep window seats and an ancient high-backed settle or so, and a massive table by the fireless hearth.
Everything on earth belongs to him; but when the knight took our flowers so freely just now as if they were his own, I thought But there there there! See for yourself, Jungfrau! A heavy, unclipped yellow zecchin!"
The street leading from it was nobly planned broad, generous; but rough and uneven like the hastily made highway from one camp to another. Rough, too, were the vehicles traversing it; the oddly assorted teams, mules, donkeys and Mongolian ponies, went unclipped and ungroomed; the drivers went unwashed.
David stood overcome by the emotion that is only felt to the full at his age, and more especially in such a position as his the friends were like two young swans with wings unclipped as yet by the experiences of provincial life. "Heart of gold!" David exclaimed to himself, as his eyes followed Lucien across the workshop.
It was a portrait. The portrait was that of a Dachshund. The long body, the broad ears, the unclipped tail, the short hind legs all was there. In a fraction of a second the lightning mind of the Great Detective had penetrated the whole mystery. Hastily throwing a domino over his housemaid's dress, he rushed to the street. He summoned a passing hansom, and in a few moments was at his house.
He is the only colonial in the British dominions whose goings and comings are chronicled and discussed under all the globe's meridians, and whose speeches, unclipped, are cabled from the ends of the earth; and he is the only unroyal outsider whose arrival in London can compete for attention with an eclipse.
We were again on the march and the men took good care of us, leaving us here according to their orders with plenty of provisions for a week also money, all good unclipped silver pieces and English gold. They bade us not to leave the house on any account, and in case of any sudden danger to light the fire on the tower head!
Everything on earth belongs to him; but when the knight took our flowers so freely just now as if they were his own, I thought But there there there! See for yourself, Jungfrau! A heavy, unclipped yellow zecchin!"
Yet, Miela said, the leaders of the women now felt that some progress was being made in changing public sentiment, although so far not a single man had been found who would take for mate a woman with wings unclipped.
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