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'They'll come, every man of them, if they can. Even Jack will risk losing a dollar for the sake of one of our jolly old dinners, laughed Tom. 'There's the turkey fattening for the feast. I never chase him now, but feed him well; and he's "swellin' wisibly", bless his drumsticks! said Ted, pointing out the doomed fowl proudly parading in a neighbouring field.

It is the duty of statesmen," and here ADDISON, like another Fat Boy known to history, wisibly swelled, "to adapt themselves to the necessities of the case." JENNINGS, speaking from the Bench immediately behind ADDISON, had no patience with this kind of argument. "Six years I've sat in this House, Mr.

A fine figure of a man, with a great resemblance to the late lamented Bismarck, minus the moustache and the three hairs on the top of the head. Asked him to be seated. He selected a chair that was all arms and legs and no hips to speak of and crushed himself into it. After which he unfastened his belt and "swelled wisibly afore my werry eyes."

Very few are afraid, I think; but one has an impression that one's own proportions are becoming sensibly developed "swelling wisibly," in fact, like the lady at the Pickwickian tea-fight while those of our adversary diminish in a like ratio, so that he does not appear near so fair a mark as he did a few minutes ago.

"Now, I'll tell you the secret," began Tommy, who was "swellin' wisibly" with the importance of his news. "Tell away," answered Nat, wishing he had brought his fiddle, it was so shady and quiet here.

'If this here lasts much longer, Sammy, said Mr. Weller, in the same low voice, 'I shall feel it my duty, as a human bein', to rise and address the cheer. There's a young 'ooman on the next form but two, as has drunk nine breakfast cups and a half; and she's a-swellin' wisibly before my wery eyes. There is little doubt that Mr.

On the following night Esther felt unwell, and "was a swelling wisibly before the werry eyes" of her alarmed family. Reports like thunder peeled through her chamber, under a serene sky.

The chicken, the ham, the pie, disappeared as if conjured away. The boy grew rounder. "Boy," said the doctor at last, "hadn't you better stop? You are 'swelling wisibly afore my werry eyes!" The boy shook his head, but presently he began to have intervals when he was able to speak. "Better plant all you can," he advised. "Ma says the grub here would kill a cat. I eat at home.

In befriending me you are caring for one who is weak and puny indeed." "Oh, you won't answer," said Mr. Growther with a laugh. "I can see that your humps is growin' wisibly less every day, and you're too big and broad-shouldered for me to be a pettin' and a yearnin' over. I want jest such a peaked little chap as Mrs. Arnot pictured out, and that's doin' me such a sight o' good."