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Crozier good, she thought in saying, as she looked down on the humming-bird trying to be an eagle: "I've had to get things for him-papers and so on, and send them on when he was away, and even when he was at home I've had to act for him; and so even when it was locked I had to know where the key was. He asked me to help him that way."
The band gave place to the Piper, and he marched out to the tune of "The Cock o' the North," looking exactly like a great giant humming-bird, his plumage flashing in the sunlight, as he went buzzing around the deck. Harry Lauder and the doctor and two or three others of the frivolous young folk in the kilts went away off to where the minister could not see them and danced a Highland reel.
I call it 'artemisium. I can produce it, in the pure form, abundantly enough to replace gold, giving it the same relative value that gold possessed when it was the universal standard." As Dr. Syx spoke he snapped the card with his thumb-nail and it fluttered with quivering hues like a humming-bird hovering over a flower.
Marion looked down upon the fair little girl at her side with a smile that had a sort of almost motherly tenderness in it, as she said, gently: "One would be a very bear to think of quizzing a humming-bird, you know. It would be very silly in him to be sarcastic to you." Eurie interrupted the talk: "What is the matter with the prayer-meetings?" she asked. "Do any of you know?
They were like the wing of the butterfly or the plumage of the humming-bird, which cannot be handled without being tarnished.
As to the former, the wireless reports indicated that Mr. Swift was doing as well as could be expected, but his improvement was not rapid. Regarding the latter worry, Tom saw no way of getting rid of it. "I've just got to wait, that's all," he thought. The day before the opening of the meet, Tom and Mr. Damon had given the Humming-Bird a grueling tryout.
Tom opened the throttle and advanced the spark. The great test was on! The Humming-Bird trembled and throbbed with the awful speed of the motor, like a thing alive. She seemed to rush forward as an eagle dropping down from a dizzy height upon some hapless prey. "Faster yet!" murmured Tom. "We must go faster yet!" The motor was warming up. Streaks of fire came from it.
Occasionally to watch their wonderful motions more closely and have speech with them, I followed when they raced over the sands or flew about over the slippery rocks, and felt like a cochin-china fowl, or muscovy duck, or dodo, trying to keep pace with a humming-bird.
They were jogging on with all this cargo over mount Caucasus, when an immense humming-bird, who had been struck with the beauty of the ladybird's wings, that I had forgot to say were of ruby spotted with black pearls, sousing down at once upon her prey, swallowed ladybird, Pissimissi, the elephant, and all their commodities.
"What a pity," thought he, "to find one's wife in two volumes. In one poetry, delight, love, devotion, beauty, sweetness " Esther was fussing about, as women do, before going to bed; she came and went and fluttered round, singing all the time; you might have thought her a humming-bird. "In the other a noble name, family, honors, rank, knowledge of the world!
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