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Updated: June 23, 2025
I discovered, to Harriet's astonishment, that we were running out of all sorts of necessaries. "Now, David," she said, "you know perfectly well that you're just making up to call on Mary Starkweather." "That," I said, "relieves my conscience of a great burden." As I went out of the door I heard her saying: "Why Mary Starkweather should care to live in her barn...."
This is, I think, a very great diplomatic triumph, because it not only smooths the way for future proceedings, but it greatly relieves our anxiety about Canton, as the Americans are the only people who would be likely to give us trouble during the military occupation. February 10th. We have got Putiatine's letter for Pekin.
Such eyes men get from many years of staring over great stretches of sunlit plain where no colour relieves the blinding glare nothing but dull grey clumps of saltbush and the dull green Mitchell grass. His whole bearing spoke of infinite determination and self-reliance the square chin, the steadfast eyes, telling their tale as plainly as print.
It relieves my feelings." "But don't you think it weakens your influence on occasions when nothing but strong language will serve? You rob yourself of the power, you know, to increase the force of it." "Oh bother! don't moralise, man, but let's have your opinion of the weather, which is an all-important subject just now."
It should be kept tight from the air. Summer-savory is excellent to season soup, broth, and sausages. As a medicine, it relieves the cholic. Pennyroyal and tansy are good for the same medicinal purpose. Green wormwood bruised is excellent for a fresh wound of any kind.
The earth-closet is an invention which relieves the most disagreeable item in domestic labor, and prevents the disagreeable and unhealthful effluvium which is almost inevitable in all family residences, The general principle of construction is somewhat like that of a water-closet, except that in place of water is used dried earth.
The government purposely refuses to strike it off, while two decrees are applied which render its removal impossible; each name maintained on the list of spoliation and death relieves the Revolution of a probable adversary, and places one more domain at its disposal.
The only circumstance that relieves the intolerable gloom of the associations of the Prison is, that Nævius is said to have written two of his plays while he was confined in it for his attacks on the aristocracy; a circumstance which links it to the Tower of London, which has also its literary reminiscences.
Without the evaporation which relieves it of its overflow, this basin, with an area of 17,000 square miles, and a depth of from sixty to four hundred feet, would flood the low marshy ground to its north and east.
"Of course; but Charles wishes me to dress, and never stints me in money; and, after all, I like for him to spend his money in his own way. It vexes me sometimes, he buys such wild brutes, and endangers his life with them. He rides miles and miles every year; and it relieves the tedium of his journeys to have horses he must watch, I suppose."
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