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Updated: May 24, 2025
'Drat their impudence' said Mrs Greenacre, from whose well-covered bosom all milk of human kindness was receding, as far as the family of the Lookalofts were concerned. 'So says I, said Mrs Guffern; 'and so says my good-man Thomas Guffern, when he hear'd it.
On the morning of our departure, I looked from the parlor-window of the Peacock into the market-place, and beheld its irregular square already well-covered with booths, and more in process of being put up, by stretching tattered sail-cloth on poles. It was market-day. The dealers were arranging their commodities, consisting chiefly of vegetables, the great bulk of which seemed to be cabbages.
They are sometimes colored with cochineal; and if kept well-covered in a dry place, will remain good for a month or six weeks.
At a plain but well-covered table near the western windows, where fading sunlight helped firelight to illumine the little company, sat three men two of them armed with heavy automatics and a woman. Another woman, Catherine, was standing by her chair and beckoning Gabriel to his. "Come, Comrade!" she exclaimed.
We weren't fortunate enough, I regret to say, to see Eliza's eggs hatch out from the cocoon; but in other instances, especially in Southern Europe, I have noticed the little heap of well-covered ova, glued together into a mass, and attached to a branch or twig by stout silken cables.
He repays their cruelties against his kind by killing their sheep and calves in broad daylight and executing a well-covered retreat before the owners can exact the penalty, then returning at night to raise his jeering laughter almost under the windows of his enemies.
Guffern, "as naked as you please, while all the quality was dressed just as you and I be, Mrs. Greenacre." "Drat their impudence," said Mrs. Greenacre, from whose well-covered bosom all milk of human kindness was receding, as far as the family of the Lookalofts were concerned. "So says I," said Mrs. Guffern; "and so says my goodman, Thomas Guffern, when he hear'd it.
And they're such fun." Aunt Hester sat down. Really, Juley had done it now! "She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered." "My dear!" said Aunt Juley, "what a peculiar way of putting it not very nice." "No, but what was she like?" persisted Imogen. "I'll tell you, my child," said Francie; "a kind of modern Venus, very well-dressed."
Then the curate returned with the doctor's opinion, which was that the change of air would be beneficial, if Merton could stand being removed; but that the journey must be short and made easy: he suggested a well-covered van, with a bed to lie on, and protected from draughts, as better than the railroad.
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