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My throat's too full to swallow victuals." "Why, thee canstna get the coffin ready," said Lisbeth. "Thee't work thyself to death. It 'ud take thee all night to do't." "What signifies how long it takes me? Isn't the coffin promised? Can they bury the man without a coffin? I'd work my right hand off sooner than deceive people with lies i' that way. It makes me mad to think on't.
Because we find this mark clearly distinguished on our thermometers, and the scales numbered accordingly, we fail to notice what lies ideally behind this use of the same zero for every new operation we undertake. What the zero signifies becomes clear directly we start to work with thermometers not marked with scales.
But never mind, just now; you have forgotten to tell us by what means you are here." "I! Oh! That's not very onaccountable, if I am myself, Judith. I'm out on furlough." "Furlough! That word has a meaning among the soldiers that I understand; but I cannot tell what it signifies when used by a prisoner." "It means just the same.
Though all bowed before her, as etiquette required, she had now but a single arm on which she could lean. "It signifies little," said Mazarin, when he was alone. "It gave me pain and it was an ungracious part to play, but I have said nothing either to the one or to the other. Bernouin!" Bernouin entered.
I will not, therefore, have it supposed that I am indulging by stealth, and against my conscience, in an amusement which, using it so little as I do, I may well practise openly, and without any check of mind Nil conscire sibi, Jeanie, that is my motto; which signifies, my love, the honest and open confidence which a man ought to entertain when he is acting openly, and without any sense of doing wrong."
"It was just pinned on me a few years ago. I'm not particularly proud of it. I don't even know the rogue who gave me the label. And it means nothing." "Even your enemies are using it, and I understand what it signifies." She bent her eyes upon him for a time. "That is, what it signifies to your friends." "And to my enemies?" "More gossip. They say it's because you're a gun-man and a knife-man.
And what signifies what was said sixteen years ago? Has she anything to show in writing? As far as I know, nothing of the kind was said." "Oh, I remember it, Samuel; I do indeed!" "Let me tell you then that you had better not try to remember anything about it. If you ain't quiet, Bob, I'll make you, pretty quick; d'ye hear that? The fact is, your memory is not worth a curse.
"Which fine metaphor boiled down signifies that you want to bring the man into partnership because he is a professional conspirator." "Put it that way if you like. Also you must not forget that you and I are at present dead-locked." "So that we have all to gain and nothing to lose. Precisely; old man, you've put it in a nutshell. The only other thing is, do you think Taltavull would play fair?"
It signifies nothing to him I know that he's one o' them fine gentlemen as get money by doing business for poorer folks, and when he's made beggars of 'em he'll give 'em charity. I won't forgive him! I wish he might be punished with shame till his own son 'ud like to forget him. And you mind this, Tom you never forgive him, neither, if you mean to be my son. Now write write it i' the Bible!"
"There," exclaimed Pylades, "your Aurora is hidden behind a cloud; not very promising, that, for the rest of the day." "I don't agree with you; I regard it, on the contrary, as a favourable augury that my little beauty has retired. Don't you know that when the soldier hides himself behind the battlements of the tower, it signifies that the besieger's arrow has hit him?
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