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Updated: August 7, 2024
There are too many women in England already too many half-starving shabby genteel. I earn enough to live on here that is, I call it living. You couldn't. In the bad season, when there are no tourists, I live on a lire a day, including my rent." Henry Gregg stood up. "My land! Why don't you come to America?" He waved his arms. "America!" Mary Gowd's brick-red cheeks grew redder.
By reflected light it is much darker, it looks almost black; but by transmitted light it is transparent. Test this by looking at printed matter as in Experiment 94. Experiment 96. It changes to a very bright, florid, brick-red color. Compare its color with A, B, and C. It is opaque. Experiment 97. It is white, fibrous, and elastic.
There was Matthew, for instance, the oldest. When he arrived, he was to Maude a never-ending miracle, she would have his crib brought into her room, and I would find her leaning over the bedside, gazing at him with a rapt expression beyond my comprehension. To me he was just a brick-red morsel of humanity, all folds and wrinkles, and not at all remarkable in any way.
His complexion was brick-red, a few wrinkles had gathered about his eyes, but he had the smooth, plump hands of a stout man.
Never had so little fuss arrestin' rivermen before in my life." The officer's face turned a slow brick-red. For a moment he said nothing, then exploded with the utmost violence. "Then why the devil am I dragged up here with my men in the night?" he cried. "Who's responsible for this insanity, anyway?
One brick-red porphyry, which above the Jaula forms an isolated mass in the midst of the porphyritic conglomerate formation, and lower down the valley a magnificent group of peaked mountains, differs remarkably from all the other porphyries.
I descried no showy woman with a tall youth dancing attendance; among the brick-red English faces there was not one that bore the least resemblance to the latest photograph of Bob Evers. A little consideration suggested my first move. "I think I saw a visitors' book in the hall," I said. "I may as well stick down my name."
When a visitor calls the betel-box is immediately passed to him; and as in regard to the eating of salt in Western Asia, so, in the eastern and southern portions, those who have once partaken of betel-nut together are ever after sworn to faithful and undying friendship. The use of the areca-nut preserves the teeth from decay, but keeps them stained of a disgusting brick-red color.
There were also some mountains of a porphyry with a brick-red basis, containing irregular, often lens-shaped, patches of compact feldspar, and crystals of feldspar, which latter to my surprise I find to be orthite.
The sandy spit of Neutral Ground at one side of which Tommy Atkins, fresh-faced, does his sentry-go in brick-red tunic and white pith-helmet, and at the other side of which swarthy Sancho Panza y Toro, in projecting cap and long blue coat, fondles a rifle in the bend of his arm, can readily be flooded; and the bare, sheer, lofty north front, with scores of cannon of the deadliest modern pattern lying in wait behind the irregular embrasures that grimly pit its surface, hardly invites attack.
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