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I've lived, not vegetated and I've had a very good time, too." She paused, then added slowly: "Though I've missed the best." Magda slipped her hand into the old woman's thin, wrinkled one with a quick gesture of understanding, and a little sympathetic silence fell between them.
Here, amidst these surroundings, until the year 1848, there vegetated an obscure family that enjoyed little esteem, but whose head, Pierre Rougon, subsequently played an important part in life owing to certain circumstances. Pierre Rougon was the son of a peasant.
The Roman burgess-cavalry now merely vegetated as a sort of mounted noble guard, whose perfumed cavaliers and exquisite high-bred horses only played a part in the festivals of the capital; the so-called burgess-infantry was a troop of mercenaries swept together from the lowest ranks of the burgess-population; the subjects furnished the cavalry and the light troops exclusively, and came to be more and more extensively employed also in the infantry.
He rambled over Europe or vegetated in Paris for thirty years, living a nomadic life in subordinate positions, hissed as an author, distrusted as a man of science and ignored as a philosopher, a third rate political writer, aspiring to every sort of celebrity and to every honor, constantly presenting himself as a candidate and as constantly rejected, too great a disproportion between his faculties and ambition!
In his old age some of the neighbors offered him shelter during the tempestuous winter months; but he would have none of it he defied wind and weather. There he lay in his dilapidated hovel in his last illness, refusing to allow any one to remain with him overnight and the mercury four degrees below zero. Lear was born in 1720, and vegetated eighty-two years.
Roker; and, by the time he lay down upon it at night, was as much at home as if he had been bred in the prison, and his whole family had vegetated therein for three generations. 'Do you always smoke arter you goes to bed, old cock? inquired Mr. Weller of his landlord, when they had both retired for the night. 'Yes, I does, young bantam, replied the cobbler.
To give one instance, a bulb of Hippeastrum aulicum produced four flowers; three were fertilised by Herbert with their own pollen, and the fourth was subsequently fertilised by the pollen of a compound hybrid descended from three distinct species: the result was that "the ovaries of the three first flowers soon ceased to grow, and after a few days perished entirely, whereas the pod impregnated by the pollen of the hybrid made vigorous growth and rapid progress to maturity, and bore good seed, which vegetated freely."
"How the mushrooms have vegetated hereabouts," thought Moran, as he glanced up at the stack of the old work engine, but he was never much of a kicker, so he would not kick now. This wasn't much of a run, but it beat looking for a better one. "Not so much coal, Bennie. Take your clinker hook and level it off. That's it, see the black smoke? Keep your furnace door shut. Now look at your stack again.
What! did you not know about it? The success of the monastery was due to that accident. Before the coming of Father Gideon it vegetated, but on his coming the ladies soon flocked there in crowds. They organized a little guild, entitled "The Ladies of the Agony." They prayed for the Chinese who had died without confession, and wore little death's heads in aluminum as sleeve-links.
She had even gone so far as to encourage her in the belief that she "vegetated," and the word opened up to her a new world. "Vegetate" it stuck to her, and became a motive power.
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