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Vilet, roused at her grandmother's voice, looked around, and then asked in her plaintive voice, "Whar's daddy?" "He's hep'n' put'n' out de fiahs, deah chile." "My bref gittin' bery sho't, granny. I can't stay dis side ob de riber much longer; I wants ter see daddy 'fore I go." "Po' chile and po' Kern," groaned Aun' Sheba.
"Bref, la Presidence est arrivee a la prefecture trempee comme une soupe a l'oignon et fortement dessalee." Verily there is no tongue like the French for saying nasty things in a nasty way.
Though an enthusiastic Catholic, was loyal to Henry of Navarre. On the Peace of Vervins returned to the sea, visiting the Spanish West Indies and Mexico. Between 1601 and 1603 wrote his first book the Bref Discours. In 1603 made his first voyage to the St Lawrence, which he ascended as far as the Lachine Rapids.
"De han's at de sawmill had des got de big log on de kerridge, en wuz start-in' up de saw, w'en dey seed a 'oman runnin' up de hill, all out er bref, cryin' en gwine on des lack she wuz plumb 'stracted.
I'm thinking I'll just come and cuik till ye a wee for auld lang syne thretty schelln the day an' ye'll buy the flesh o' me. I'll sell it a hantle cheaper than thir warldly-minded fleshers." Bref, he came to be shorn, and remained to fleece. He went and told George what he had done. "Hech! hech!" whined he, "thir's a maist awfu' come doon for the McLaughlans -but wha wadna' stuip to lift gowd?"
"Soon's I get my bref from all dat smoke I'll go back an' git Queen Bess." The girl sprang to the rope and soon the bell was ringing out a wild alarm. "Hurry, Neb!" she cried. "Oh, hurry! Th' fire's a-gainin', ev'ry second! Hurry!" Neb dashed back into the stable upon trembling limbs, while, without a pause, the girl kept up the clangor of alarm.
We men of business cannot bear to be too much cheated; a little cheating we submit to much cheating raises our gall. Bref this was on Monday. I offered the man 1000 louis above the fair price, and gave him till Thursday to decide. Somehow or other Louvier hears of this.
She mus'n' never marry nobody, Doctor! If she do, he die, certain!" "If she has a fancy for the young man up at the school there," the Doctor said, "I shouldn't think there would be much danger from Dick." "Doctor, nobody know nothin' 'bout Elsie but Ol' Sophy. She no like any other creatur' th't ever drawed the bref o' life.
O, dem was happy days! and I and Phillis tink we just de pleasantest creters in de whole ob Berginny; and we takes de young uns out wid us to de cotton field, and after dey gets use to de hot sun in dar eyes, dey crawl round on de ground, snatchin' up de bits ob cotton, like dey hab been use to it all dar days; and we not mind it much if old oberseer did gib us a lash ober de head, 'casionally, when we stops to cotch a bref, long as we habs de young uns to lift us up a bit.
So Charles Martel took the title of Patrician from the Pope, but sent him no armies; and the quarrel went on; while Charles filled up the measure of his iniquity by meddling with that church-property in Gaul which his sword had saved from the hordes of the Saracens; and is now, as St. So one generation more passes by; and then Pepin le Bref, grown to manhood, is less scrupulous than his father.
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