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Ye can impty yer stummick wherever ye loike over the furniture, if ye'll fill this aching void." So went the procession. All walking with hands laid heavily on their paunches, or where they used to be. Lovers had lost the light of interest from their eyes, wedded people the light of retrospection, statesmen the pride of intellect, princes and legates the pride of power.
We were very much afraid of this eikon, because it was very old and black. When I was six, I remember my father teaching the village children. They had their lessons in "the other house," where Alexey Stepanytch, the bailiff, lived, and sometimes on the ground floor of the house we lived in. There were a great number of village children who used to come.
You were Oh, please forgive me, Carl; I didn't mean to be snippy; I just don't know what to think of myself and I did used to think I was a lady, and here I am practically up and telling you and "
What else is there worth living for? THE MAIDEN. Oh, stuff! Dont be frivolous. THE YOUTH. Something horrible is happening to you. THE MAIDEN. Unhappy! Really, you must have a very empty head if there is nothing in it but a dance with one girl who is no better than any of the other girls. THE YOUTH. You did not always think so. You used to be vexed if I as much as looked at another girl.
The effects of a new gas used in large quantities on the front was often just as serious a threat to organisation as the sudden development of a strange epidemic.
Same old gag we've used for the last ten years, 'heavily armed band of masked men, 'scene like a butcher's shambles, and that guy of a sheriff 'scouring the hills for the miscreants. I'll bet he's under his bed scared blue." "Who did it?" "Same old gang of outside grazers, drovers who skipped the State line. I succeeded in getting their names after a good deal of trouble." "You did, did you?
"The application of stress, you say, is not civilized. Not, perhaps, according to your definition of" he used the English word "cifiliced. No. Not cifiliced but it works." Again he smiled. "I said that I have become soft since I have been here, but I fear that your civilization is even softer." "A man can lie, even if his arms are pulled off or his feet crushed," MacMaine said stiffly.
Needless to say she had not only been selected for speed, but was rendered in appearance as unobtrusive as possible. Besides lying low in the water, she was painted a dead grey, funnels and all. The sort of coal we used, anthracite, burned with very little smoke, and even that little was obviated, as we approached the seat of war, by a hood on the smoke-stack.
He entered heartily into all the preacher's ideas and feelings and seemed to understand just how to interpret him in music; Mr. Beecher used to say that he inspired his sermons.
We must know the content of the words that are used before we can understand one another, either in speaking or in writing. For one man, a word is big with meaning; for another, the same word is so small as to be well-nigh meaningless.
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