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Updated: June 18, 2025
But suddenly there was a deafening report from the room beyond; the buccaneer pitched forward on to the rail, his musket falling from his hand. My life was saved by the man's body lurching against me, for being between Vetch and me, he prevented my old enemy from using his sword arm. With a desperate heave I threw the buccaneer against Vetch, and in a trice was over the rail and on the veranda.
There are few more obnoxious weeds in cultivated ground than sheep- sorrel, also an Old World plant; while our native wood-sorrel, with its white, delicately veined flowers, or the variety with yellow flowers, is quite harmless. The same is true of the mallow, the vetch, the tare, and other plants.
What would be the best to sow for sheep pasture barley, oats, rye, vetch or rape?
He wondered if it could be traced back to the phraseology of the circus? "Of course you think I am an extremist," concluded Gideon Vetch abruptly, "but before you are as old as I am you will have learned that the only way to get half a loaf is to ask for a whole one. Come again, and I'll talk to you." "Yes, I'll come again," Stephen answered, and he knew that he should.
"Do you mean that?" she asked. "Will you come when I send for you? I want to see you again once before I die." "I promise you that I will come. I'll send you something, too, and so will Father." "Gideon Vetch," said the woman very slowly, as if she were trying to hold the name in her consciousness before it slipped away from her. "Gideon Vetch."
On his left the ugly shape of the library resembled some crude architectural design sketched on parchment. As he approached the fountain, a small figure in a red cape detached itself suddenly from the mesh of shadows, and he recognized Patty Vetch, the irrepressible young daughter of the Governor.
Huggins to have pity on ye and take ye into his shop, and ye'll tie up sugar and coffee for Susan Cludde belike, and oh, deary me!" "Nonsense, Becky," says I. "I shan't have that pleasure. I'm going to join Mr. Vetch." "What!" she shrieks. "'Tis true. Mr.
Jemmy Vetch had been beforehand with him. Uttering a low snarl of hate, he fired, and shot the sentry through the breast. The others rushed through the now broken cordon, and made headlong for the boat. "Fools!" cried Rex behind them. "You have wasted a shot!
She was too young to perceive the essential pathos of all wasted effort, of all misdirected attempts to overcome the disadvantages of ignorance; and while she looked at him now, she saw only the vulgarity. Like all those who have suffered from insufficient opportunities and wounded pride, Patty Vetch was without mercy for the very weaknesses that she had risen above.
The crop may not come evenly, many places may long lie bare, and the field be all in patches; yet almost every vetch will spring, and tiller out, and stretch across the scatterings where the wind puffed. And so dear mother and darling Lorna now had been for many a day thinking, worrying, and wearing, about the matter between us.
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