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The brutal loafer changed countenance as he caught the red man's eye. "Naw! never touched him; hurted himself on that rake." It was obviously a lie, but better to let it pass, and Quonab came in again. Then the rough stranger appeared at the door and growled: "Say, Warren! ain't you going to let me have that rifle? I guess my word's as good as the next man's." "No," said Warren; "I told you, no!"
Anny ways theer's no danger of a brush coming anigh 'em while the young missis says 'No. Her word's law i' this house, and has been ever since her was no higher than the table." "Wasn't that a ring at the front door?" asked Sennacherib, holding up his hand. "Run and see, wench," said Fuller. Ruth ran down the grass-plot and into the house.
Language, in short, is the depositary of all experience, which, being the inheritance of posterity, we have a right to vary, but none to curtail. We may improve the conclusions of our ancestors; we should not let drop any of their premisses; we may alter a word's connotation; but we must not destroy part of it.
"How do you know that a m stands for ten cents?" I asked. "The code word's manuscript. Each letter stands for a figure, from 0 up to 9, see?" He scrawled it down on a scrap of paper: m a n u s c r i p t 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Now, you see a m stands for 10, a n would be 12, n s is 24, a c is 15, a m m is $1.00, and so on.
The boat pulled round the stern to take in Moggy, who then ordered the waterman to put the dog on board again. "My word's as good as my bond," observed Moggy, as she stepped into the other boat, "and so there's your cur again, Mr Leeftenant; but mark my words: I owe you one, and I'll pay you with interest before I have done with you."
It is well to be acquainted with this phase of the word's history, depriving as it does of all convincing power those passages quoted by Roman Catholic controversialists from early church-writers in proof of their seven sacraments.
This feeling-tone, however, is not as a rule an inherent value in the word itself; it is rather a sentimental growth on the word's true body, on its conceptual kernel. To be sure, there are socially accepted feeling-tones, or ranges of feeling-tone, for many words over and above the force of individual association, but they are exceedingly variable and elusive things at best.
Commit these words to memory, and then endeavor to fix in your mind a clear conception of the meaning of each word, so that each may stand for a Live Idea when you say it. Beware of parrot-like or phonographic repetition. Let each word's meaning stand out clearly before you, so that when you repeat it you may feel its meaning.
If a poor fellow like me were shown consideration and given a place, I would kiss the ikon. My word's my bond." The sexton walked by, looked at us in amazement, and began pulling the rope. The bell, abruptly breaking upon the stillness of the evening, struck ten with a slow and prolonged note. "It's ten o'clock, though," said Dmitri Petrovitch. "It's time we were going.
Grotius does say, that this was opposed to the Word's being made flesh, and appearing in the world: but he was far enough from thinking that these words have only a negative sense: * for he tells us what the positive sense is, that with God is [Greek: par
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