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Updated: May 12, 2025
She said: "Think of it, Sally it is a family that has never married outside the Royal and Imperial Houses of Europe: our grandchildren will sit upon thrones!" "True as you live, Aleck and bear scepters, too; and handle them as naturally and nonchantly as I handle a yardstick. It's a grand catch, Aleck. He's corralled, is he? Can't get away? You didn't take him on a margin?" "No. Trust me for that.
Madame Daatselaer smeared his face and hands with chalk and plaster however and whispered encouragement, and so with a felt hat slouched over his forehead and a yardstick in his hand, he walked calmly forth into the thronged marketplace and through the town to the ferry, accompanied by the friendly Lambertsen.
Would she measure the Pantheon with the little yardstick of her own intellect? Would she weigh Caesar's life and motives on the jeweled letter-scales of her own experience? Would she gauge Jove by the character of her curate? If she can do this, then is she competent to voice her judgment on the most profound of all mysteries human life. Boise City, Idaho, November 12.
All the time! Did I want to fall off that yardstick, right into the tolly-blow? "There's Prudy: she can be good; it doesn't hurt her. It hurts me to be good; it tires me all up. "And here it is, as dark as a pickpocket." Is this down cellar? No, I didn't see any stairs. Where did I go to when I came? I walked right on the floor. What floor? Was it the dining-room, or was it out doors?
True, a musket is a little heavier than a yardstick, but isn't it a rather more manly weapon?" "I don't see it," was Philander's reply; "besides, this war isn't conducted accordin' to the Constitution and Union. When it is when it is, Mabeyuel, I will return and enlist as a Convalescent!" "Then, sir," she said, with much American disgust in her countenance, "then, sir, farewell!"
Pathfinders always lay up on Sunday, and sometimes, the day being long, Smith steals out to the river and comes back with a mountain trout as long as a yardstick. The scenery is beyond description. Now we pass over the shoulder of a mountain with a river a thousand feet below. Sometimes we trail for hours along the shore of a limpid lake that seems to run away to the foot of the Rockies.
They just shrieked, "Touch me not!" behind the glass doors in the library. I hate sewing. I mean Marie hates it. Aunt Jane says Mary's got to learn. For a time I just walked around the different rooms downstairs, looking at the chairs and tables and rugs all just so, as if they 'd been measured with a yardstick.
I do hope these chameleon artists will leave us the multiplication table, the yardstick, and the ablative absolute. I'm not so particular about the wine-gallon, for prohibition will probably do away with that anyhow. When I was in school I could tell to a foot the equatorial and the polar diameter of the earth, and what makes the difference.
But Cousin Nathaniel made a very wry face, in which the smile of welcome struggled with the anxiety this unexpected arrival caused him. Cousin Nathaniel had taken possession of, and settled comfortably in the house, regarding himself as the heir. Now he must pack up and go. Joseph was delighted to see his workshop again, with its vice, bench, yardstick, plane, and saw.
It was, I should imagine, midst the fierceness of the strife and fury of the mania times, when his powerful personality counted for so much, that he reached the zenith of his happiness. Whilst conducting in York his linendraper business, a relation died and left him money. The railway boom had then begun. He flung his yardstick behind him and entered the railway fray.
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