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He first plundered a rice plantation, and then he cracked cocoa-nuts; then he washed his face and arranged his toilet with, his right paw; and finally he ran a race with his own tail, which humorous appendage to his body was very wittily performed for the occasion by a fragment, of an old tarred rope.
Whereupon Fisher Ames, one of the great men of the day, wittily remarked to a bachelor colleague, "Behold now the advantage of having a wife God preserve us all from gunpowder!" The reply of Thatcher was read in the House, causing much merriment and leaving his adversary "Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song."
"Sensation among the audience they gesticulate they screech they bellow the commissary puts on his greatcoat the secretary gives a last touch to his nails and pockets his penknife the audience disperses the silhouette of a man effaces itself all is over." "You describe the scene most wittily," said Rameau, laughing, but the laugh was constrained.
When his steward desired to know how he would have the sum entered in his accounts, he replied, "For Vespasian's being seduced." XXIII. He used Greek verses very wittily; speaking of a tall man, who had enormous parts: Makxi bibas, kradon dolichoskion enchos; Still shaking, as he strode, his vast long spear.
"You jest, sir," said he; "if your friends have invited you to a feast, what should prevent you from allowing me to go with you? You will please them, I am sure, by introducing to them a man who can talk wittily like me, and knows how to divert company. But say what you will, I am determined to accompany you." These words, gentlemen, perplexed me much.
Officers of all ranks began to abandon the camp at Fontainebleau, find present themselves to swear allegiance to the new government. Talleyrand said wittily when some one called Marmont a traitor, "his watch only went a little faster than the others."
The bishops themselves did not disdain to attend 'incognito; curtained seats were placed immediately inside the door, where the prelates were smuggled in; and this was wittily called 'Nicodemus's corner. The Duchess of Buckingham accepted an invitation from Lady Huntingdon to attend her chapel at Bath in the following words: 'I thank your ladyship for the information concerning the Methodist preachers; their doctrines are most repulsive and strongly tinctured with impertinence and disrespect towards their superiors, in perpetually endeavouring to level all ranks and do away with all distinctions.
The count had told her how I had lent him money several times, and of my goodness to him, and she replied, begging him to express her gratitude to me, and to make me promise to stay with them at Milan. She wrote wittily, and her letters interested me to such an extent that I gave a formal promise to journey to Milan, if it were only for the sake of seeing her.
He wittily says that Young America is rampant, parental influence couchant; and no reversal of these positions is as yet visible in 1892. To those who note the methods by which many children are managed, it is a matter of wonderment that the results in character and conduct are not very much worse than they are. Dr.
Of the above-mentioned cinnamon-coloured house a local official had wittily observed: "Here is Justitia, here is Policia, here is Militia a regular boarding school of high-born young ladies."
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