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Updated: May 22, 2025
In Carrie-as in how many of our wordings do they not?-instinct and reason, desire and understanding, were at war for the mastery. She followed whither her craving led. She was as yet more drawn than she drew.
What with the queer wordings and the defective punctuation, it is sometimes difficult to fathom the exact purport of entries. Thus, about the year 1629, we have mention of two shillings given "to a poore distressed scholler that came to our towne from Germanie the 27th of ffebruarie to seeke passadge home from Ireland." Query, where was the poor "scholler" going?
The elaborate wordings of the constitutions made by the French politicians in the days of their great revolution have always been to us no more than so many written grimaces; but we should not have continued so to regard them had the political liberty which they promised followed upon the promises so magniloquently made.
When supper was over, and pipes filled and lighted, some one would strike up a "chantey" one of those interminable, monotonous ballad-songs which are peculiar to the lumber camps. These "chanteys," however robust their wordings or their incidents, are always sung in a plaintive minor which goes oddly with the large-moulded virility of the singers.
"Look here, old cockolorum," he continued to the Malay who interpreted, "what has become of that Kling who was here before?" "Gone Mirzapore, most excellent prince," said the man. "Come, that'll do," said Bob impatiently; "drop all that eastern sugar wordings, my fine fellow, and look here!" The Malay salaamed again. "My friend here isn't an English prince. We are English officers.
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