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More especially had I thought of Seedy Mbarak Mombay, commonly called "Bombay," who though his head was "woodeny," and his hands" clumsy," was considered to be the "faithfulest" of the "Faithfuls." When I asked them if they were willing to join another white man's expedition to Ujiji, they replied very readily that they were willing to join any brother of "Speke's." Dr.
What, indeed, have his companions done that they should stand in two rows there, studies in contortion, with a gilded Russian dancer with wings at one end of their line, and a woodeny Roland at the other? But there they are, simpering a paltry patriotism, insipid as history and ridiculous as art. What has become of Lessing, and Winckelmann, and Goethe, and their teachings?
Their dank odor the odor of germinating things seemed to come from down in the earth where the gnomes are supposed to foregather; and Van Mater's thoughts reverted with withering scorn to certain woodeny, tan objects that had been foisted upon him from time to time as mushrooms always, he now triumphantly recalled, to his own inward amazement.
Look at the woodeny dolls that are its men and women! And behold our Academy! See our pictures!" "Don't rock your chair like that, Victor; it annoys me." "Very good," I said, bringing my chair down on its fore legs again. "Are you ready for the cheese?" "Yes; but won't you eat anything?" "No, thanks. I am fed upon annoyance just now." "You are getting thin on it, too," he answered, looking at me.
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