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To say nothing of the newspapers, and the envious, and the people who would like to steal! those women must rob you of your common-sense! Do they cover your eyes with walnut-shells? or are you yourself made of different stuff from us? You ought to have left the office as soon as you found that you were no longer a man, but a temperament.
To say nothing of the newspapers, and the envious, and the people who would like to steal! those women must rob you of your common-sense! Do they cover your eyes with walnut-shells? or are you yourself made of different stuff from us? You ought to have left the office as soon as you found that you were no longer a man, but a temperament.
I couldn't baffle a sore-eyed Siwash with snow-glasses." Lucky Broad's three-legged table stood among some stumps beside the muddy roadway which did service as the main street of Dyea and along which flowed an irregular stream of pedestrians; incidental to his practised manipulation of the polished walnut-shells he maintained an unceasing chatter of the sort above set down.
The shell of this great walnut, we are told, is sometimes used for making little ornamental boxes to hold gloves and small fancy-articles; so you see that mine was not the only glove-bag made of two walnut-shells." "How pretty they must be!" said Clara. "I should like to see one." "I think that I can make one when I get a large nut, and I shall be glad to show you how it is done."
The first two or three days of the journey lay through swampy ground, through which the camels made their way with difficulty, for a cat on the ice in walnut-shells is less awkward than a camel in mud.
His coarse, homespun clothes, dyed brown with walnut-shells, slouch hat crowning his shock of gray hair, and hickory shirt open at the throat, only heightened the resemblance; especially the hat canted over one eye. Why he wore the hat in such a place I could not understand, unless to be ready for departure when his summons came.
Peregrine, with a sheet over his clothes, sometimes tumbled before his aunt in the twilight, when her organs of vision were a little impaired by the cordial she had swallowed; and the boatswain's mate taught him to shoe cats with walnut-shells, so that they made a most dreadful clattering in their nocturnal excursions. The mind of Mrs.
The second and graver error was, allowing the parson to go first, when they started in earnest. The light, lithe body of the soldier could glide over the roof with the silent swiftness of a cat "on the rampage;" the same animal, shod with walnut-shells, suggests itself as an apt, though irreverent comparison for the priestly fugitive.
The ladies gathered in a group, whispering and laughing their relief at the turn affairs were taking all save Dorothy, who sat serenely beside me, picking the kernels from walnut-shells and sipping a glass of port. Sir John Johnson found a coal in the embers on the hearth, and, leaning half over the table, began to draw on the table-cloth a rude map of Tryon County.
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