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This fruit was also mentioned, and Anukis went to Kanopus, and thence, in the steward's carriage, with a basket of the very best ones to the fish-market. There she had a great deal to say to Pyrrhus, and the freedman went to his boat with the figs. Shortly after the Nubian's return the Queen came back to the palace from the mausoleum.

From that time forth the imperturbable Kralahome was ever courteous to me. Nevertheless, when from time to time I grew warm again on the irrepressible topic, he would smile slyly, tap the ashes from his pipe, and say, "Yes, sir! Never mind, sir! You not like, you can live in fish-market, sir!" The apathy and supineness of these people oppressed me intolerably.

I will not stay an hour longer than is necessary in this horrible place, which is as dismal as it is huge. Yesterday I visited the gymnasium and the better class of baths wretched, I call them! It is an insult to the fish-market and the horse-ponds of Alexandria to compare them with them." "And the theatre!" exclaimed the Jew. "The exterior one can bear to look at but the acting!

There were large quantities of birds and game of all kinds pheasants with tails six feet long, of a rare copper-coloured variety, ducks, pigeons, small birds, hares, deer, rabbits. The fish-market was well supplied, especially with cuttle-fish. They are not inviting-looking, but are considered a delicacy here.

I will not stay an hour longer than is necessary in this horrible place, which is as dismal as it is huge. Yesterday I visited the gymnasium and the better class of baths wretched, I call them! It is an insult to the fish-market and the horse-ponds of Alexandria to compare them with them." "And the theatre!" exclaimed the Jew. "The exterior one can bear to look at but the acting!

This presentation of a cup of coffee in bed before breakfast is a custom in Norway, and a very pleasant custom it is, too, especially when it breaks upon you unexpectedly for the first time. "Now for the fish-market, Sam," cried Fred, leaping out of bed when the girl had left the room. "Who cares for the fish-market?" said Sam testily, as he turned round in his bed, and prepared to slumber.

From the age of Bolingbroke to the age of Burke the gravest statesmen were not ashamed to revile one another with invective only worthy of the fish-market. And outside the legislature the tone of attack was even more brutal. Grub Street ransacked the whole vocabulary of abuse to find epithets for Walpole.

We now use this word to describe a kind of leather, a kind of ginger beer, and a variety of the fir tree, and also in the same sense as "spick and span." The word used to be pruce, and meant "Prussia." The name of the famous London fish-market, Billingsgate, has long been used to mean very violent and abusive language supposed to resemble the scoldings of the fishwomen in the market.

So it is the women who sell the fish, while the weary husbands and fathers lie wrapped in dreams of a miraculous draught. There are three great aquariums in the world, at Honolulu, Naples, and New York. There is no other such fish-market as this of Papeete, for Hawaii's has become Asiaticized, and the kanaka is almost nil in the angling art there.

At fish-market when he lived down-town each Friday morning I used to meet old man Levin, and I should say his knees were worse as yours, papa." "When my daughter marries a Albert Hamburger, then maybe too we can afford to take a trip to Europe." Miss Binswanger raised her eyes, great dark pools glozed over with tears. "All right then, I'll huck at home.

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