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At three o'clock that Sunday afternoon Bonnie Dundee, fatigued after a strenuous day, and suffering, to his own somewhat disgusted amusement, from reaction even a detective feels some shock at having narrowly escaped death permitted himself the luxury of a call upon Penny Crain. He found the girl and her mother playing anagrams. After greeting him, Mrs.
I have been hunting for it ever since the accession of His Majesty to the thrones of France and of Navarre. Last night I succeeded! but with what labor! Madame Colleville asked me what was the matter." Dutocq. "Do you think we have time to bother ourselves with your intolerable anagrams when the worthy Monsieur de la Billardiere has just expired?" Colleville. "That's Bixiou's nonsense!
Warm eulogies did many a staid New Englander write of his loving consort, eulogies in rhyme, and epitaphs, elegies, threnodies, epicediums, anagrams, acrostics, and pindarics, all speaking loudly of loving, "painful" care, if not of a spirit of poesy.
"'Do I look nice, now, mother? he affectionately asked. "'Well, you'll do, Abraham, replied Mrs. Lincoln critically." When the names of Lincoln and Hamlin were painted large on the street banners, it was immediately noticed that a singular effect appeared, as One of the anagrams upon the President had, at least, peculiar signification: Abraham Lincoln: O ba! an III. charm.
What wonder that their praises were sung in many loving though halting threnodies, in long-winded but tender eulogies, in labored anagrams, in quaintly spelled epitaphs? for the ministers' wives were the saints of the Puritan calendar. The Ministers' Pay.
'Our Jorian says that women's letters must be read like anagrams. To put it familiarly, they are like a child's field of hop-scotch. You may have noticed the urchins at their game: a bit of tile, and a variety of compartments to pass it through to the base, hopping. Or no, Richie, pooh! 'tis an unworthy comparison, this hopscotch.
The matter was represented to her, we are told, 'as if he had set up for a doctor in the faculty and invited young gentlemen into his school, where the Bible was jeered at, and the use of profane anagrams was inculcated.
'Our Jorian says that women's letters must be read like anagrams. To put it familiarly, they are like a child's field of hop-scotch. You may have noticed the urchins at their game: a bit of tile, and a variety of compartments to pass it through to the base, hopping. Or no, Richie, pooh! 'tis an unworthy comparison, this hopscotch.
Then Cherry and Peter were unobserved again, and she spelled "Mart goes Monday. Plans to take me." Peter had reached for a magazine; he whirled through the pages, and yawned. Then he began to play with the anagrams again. "Can you get away without him?" he spelled. "How?" Cherry instantly asked.
"We have done a good work this day. 'The Death of Hercules' reminded me of 'The Death of Hector, by the late Luce de Lancival; the work we have just accepted sparkles with sublime verses." "Yes," said Minard, "the versification has taste; there are some really fine lines in it, and I admit to you that I think this sort of literature rather above the anagrams of Master Colleville."
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