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It's a drug at the chemist's," said Wiggins. "I've been talking to my father about cats a good deal lately, and he says if you put valerian on a rag and drag it along the ground, cats will follow it for miles." "Your father seems to know everything such a lot of useful things as well as higher mathematics," said the Terror.
Before doing so, it may be as well to state that the case of the teasel is not an isolated one, and that the same conclusions are supported by the valerian, and a large number of other examples. In early spring some rosettes show a special condition of the leaves, indicating thereby at once their atavism and their tendency to become twisted as soon as they begin to expand.
"My niece," said the little lady, with a troubled look, "is in a highly nervous condition to-day, Doctor Strong. She is weeping. My sister thought you might have " she paused, as Miss Phoebe's crisp and decided tones came up over the stairs. "Little Vesta has got into a crying-spell, Doctor Strong. I want a little valerian for her, please.
Of course this kind of perfumery is only adapted for those who live in tents and in the open air, but it is considered by the ladies to have a peculiar attraction for the other sex, as valerian is said to ensnare the genus felis.
But as it was, they escaped, as I have said, and put in at Taenarum, which is now called Caenopolis. Then, pressing on from there, they touched at Methone, and found Valerian and Martinus with their men, who had reached the same place a short time before.
Alone in the cold and darkness of that first morning of the year 1887, he died. Valerian did not hear through the wall his last faint gasping cry, but I heard it, and its exceeding bitterness would have made mortals weep. "Gertrude!" he sobbed. "Gertrude!" And with that his head sank on his breast, and the life, which but for me might have been so happy and prosperous, was ended.
Upon a coin issued by the younger Valerian we see the Sun-God holding a small round object. On a coin issued by Claudius II. we see the Sun-God Hercules holding a round object admittedly meant for the Golden Apple. Upon a coin issued by Aurelianus we see the Sun-God holding a round object surmounted by a crescent.
Although the Valerian law gave him absolute power and gave to each of his ordinances the force of law, he had nevertheless availed himself of this extraordinary prerogative only in the case of measures, which were of transient importance, and to take part in which would simply have uselessly compromised the senate and burgesses, especially in the case of the proscriptions.
Potter Adriance has got anything like this in her house, though they call it so elegant," remarked Beechy. That speech was to Aunt Kathryn what valerian is to a pussy cat; for Mrs. "Perhaps I'll just step in and see what they've got here," said Aunt Kathryn. "It isn't a cheap place," replied Mr. Barrymore. "This man knows how to charge.
'Nature is indeed a harsh stepmother to you. With your nerves, the pin-prickles of life are so many dagger-thrusts. Do you feel better now? he asked, as Gabriel opened his eyes with a languid sigh. 'Much better and more composed, replied the wan curate, sitting up. 'You have given me a magical drug. 'You may well call it that. This particular preparation of valerian is nepenthe for the nerves.
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