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Updated: June 13, 2025
He thinks nothing of festooning a boa constrictor about his neck and arms, and in his sanctum he keeps young crocodiles in sundry watering-pots, and other crawling things in unexpected places. You never quite know where the next surprise is coming from. I always feel doubtful about his pockets.
The cloud would soon be well to the eastward, the dim landscape take form and distinctness, and the distant highland appear again, only to be obscured in like manner within the next half-hour. It was as if invisible and Titanic gardeners were stepping across the country with their watering-pots. Burt and Webb sat near Amy at the open window, the former chatting easily, and often gayly.
Monte Cristo entered the tower, which was divided into three stories. The tower contained implements, such as spades, rakes, watering-pots, hung against the wall; this was all the furniture.
See all my watering-pots, and pruning-scissors, my sticks, and bass-mat, and glass covers. Skill and industry conquer churlish nature and this is my Versailles. 'I don't believe in those sticks, and scissors, and watering-pots. You won't tell your secret; but I'm sure it's an influence you smile and whisper to them.
'But do you think there may be Ghosts of other things, though not of men and women? 'What things? Flower-beds and watering-pots? horses and harness? 'No. Sounds. 'What sounds? 'Cries. 'What cries do you mean? Chairs to mend? 'No. I mean screeches. Now I'll tell you, Mr. Jarsper. Wait a bit till I put the bottle right. Here the cork is evidently taken out again, and replaced again. 'There!
Marie Antoinette disliked the great pomp of court functions and liked to play at the simple life, so shepherdesses, shepherd's crooks, hats, wreaths of roses, watering-pots and many other rustic symbols became the fashion.
But once this state of things reached, there is no need to read much; and every reason for not keeping up, as vain and foolish persons boast, "with literature." Since, the time has come, after planting and grafting and dragging watering-pots, for flowering and fruition; for books to do their best, to exert their full magic.
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