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Bunting, which I should have taken great pleasure in compiling myself had not this ah this gentleman called Cruden, been before." Not only Bunting, but Daisy also, thought Ellen far pleasanter in her manner than usual that evening.
Such absurdities will be inevitable until the animal's profession is sufficiently familiar to lend its aid in the compiling of diagnoses.
'I'm sure he does I read it in his eyes. Hadn't you better take him back just for the sake of his wife? "Of course I couldn't wouldn't. But Garstin's a brainy beggar oh, wonderfully brainy." There came a certain Friday evening when the two men sat late in their office, compiling the weekly report.
He made stops at Paris, Vienna, Constantinople, Venice, and Rome, but spent most of his time in Hungary and Roumania, visiting the Gypsies and compiling a "vocabulary of the Gypsy language as spoken in Hungary and Transylvania," which still exists in manuscript. He was seven months away altogether.
Betaking himself to his special hobby, which was the compiling an epitome of all the naval engagements that have taken place within the memory of man, he left his boys and girls to grow up anyhow or, to put it more exactly, just as they pleased.
The cabin had cost two weeks' labor to build, its contents were worthless, but I had no record of the numbers of the certificates, and to my wife's presence of mind or intuition in an emergency all credit is given for saving the land scrip. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. The compiling of these memoirs has been a pleasant task.
But, besides this, he had been engaged for twenty years upon a history of the Church, in compiling which he believed he was doing a work of the highest importance to mankind; so that it appeared to him a duty to expend, from time to time, a certain amount of money in order to procure such books, old and new, as were necessary for his studies.
Oliphant says: "Strange it is that Dante should have been compiling his Inferno, which settled the course of Italian literature forever, in the selfsame years that Robert of Brunne was compiling the earliest pattern of well-formed New English... Almost every one of the Teutonic changes in idiom, distinguishing the New English from the Old, the speech of Queen Victoria from the speech of Hengist, is to be found in Manning's work."
Especially Champagny, the man by whom the duke was most hated and feared, made himself busy in compiling the slanderous chronicle in which the enemies of Farnese, both in Spain and the Netherlands, took so much delight.
It's no good writing down lists of books for farmers and compiling five-foot shelves; you've got to go out and visit the people yourself take the books to them, talk to the teachers and bully the editors of country newspapers and farm magazines and tell the children stories and then little by little you begin to get good books circulating in the veins of the nation. It's a great work, mind you!
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