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sheared or clipped, in order to produce the same effect as clipping the rough coat of a horse. Formerly this operation was performed by hand. The introduction of machinery created formidable riots in the west of England. At present the operation is performed with great perfection and rapidity, by more than one process.
He was astounded at the suddenness of it. But more things, and most grievous ones, were happening with equal suddenness. He was knocked off his feet. His throat was bitten. While he was struggling to his feet the young dog sank teeth twice into his shoulder. The swiftness of it was bewildering. He made a futile rush at White Fang, clipping the empty air with an outraged snap.
Here's one that I found in an almanac at the drug store," and he fished out a clipping and read it to them: "'A lady once purchased some myrrh Of a druggist who said unto hyrrh: "For a dose, my dear Miss, Put a few drops of this In a glass with some water, and styrrh."" "Do, do stop!" begged Laura. "I promise not to offend again," said Lance.
The individual who sat clipping and slicing as aforesaid at the Rowdy Journals, was a small young gentleman of very juvenile appearance, and unwholesomely pale in the face; partly, perhaps, from intense thought, but partly, there is no doubt, from the excessive use of tobacco, which he was at that moment chewing vigorously.
Kissin' a gal like that can't be done around here." "But Pete was not here. He didn't know." Joan was quick to grasp the weakness of his argument. "It don't matter a cent," cried Buck, his teeth clipping his words. "He needed his med'cine an' got it." Joan sighed hopelessly. "You don't understand, and and I can't tell it you all. Sometimes I feel I could kill myself.
Was it to be announced that every person who should within a term of a year or half a year carry to the mint a clipped crown should receive in exchange for it a milled crown, and that the difference between the value of the two pieces should be made good out of the public purse? That would be to offer a premium for clipping. The shears would be more busy than ever.
The most obstinate cases yield at once. Thousands of once desperate women bless the name of Relief Pills." "I don't want to look at it," said the Doctor. "No, I guess you don't! It's from the 'Clarion, that clipping. And the Neverfail Company that makes the fake abortion pills is you." "It doesn't mean that. You've misread it."
Fool that I was, I thought she wavered, and my heart beat as it never will again. Then, as she turned away, from her hand slipped a little gold-bound purse, and as I picked it up a clipping from a newspaper fluttered out. 'Pon my soul, it was that very scandalous squib of the Maryland Gazette about our duel! I handed it back with a bow.
She also began to feel a misgiving about the cause of the visit, but she managed to say something polite in reply. "I have come about Cynthia," announced Miss Lucretia, without further preliminaries. "About Cynthia?" faltered Mrs. Merrill. Miss Lucretia opened a reticule at her waist and drew forth a newspaper clipping, which she unfolded and handed to Mrs. Merrill.
He had entered a private office and was looking over some mail that had been left on his desk during his absence. "Look at this," he called, picking up a clipping from a newspaper which had been laid there for his attention. "You see, we have them aroused." We read the clipping together hastily: PLAN TO CORNER WORLD'S RADIUM
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