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Such was the frivolous opening of my poem, which, as it progressed, grew even less edifying; I have quoted this fragment merely to show you how little reverence for the Selected Salic Scions was by this time left in my spirit, and not because the verses themselves are in the least meritorious; they should serve as a model for no serious-minded singer, and they afford a striking instance of that volatile mood, not to say that inclination to ribaldry, which will at seasons crop out in me, do what I will.
One two three. Yes, one in the gallery. There were four of them! Who were they? Why, that little, volatile Flossy Shipley was one! How strange! And that girl in the gallery was the teacher at one of the Ward schools. It had been rumored that she was an infidel! Who in the world was that beside Judge Erskine? It couldn't be his daughter! Yet it certainly was.
The most idle and purposeless of vagrants, the most scatter-brained school-boy, the most volatile coquette, may, for a time, be dominated by some desire which calls into its service other desires and thus realizes some chosen end. Such volitional units do not, however, go far toward unifying the efforts of a life.
It was sermon-day, and he had to write his discourse that very afternoon. A quaint idea seized him. 'Aha, he said, almost gaily, in his volatile irresponsible fashion, 'I have my text ready; the hour brings it to me unsought; a quip, a quip! I shall preach on the Pool of Bethesda: "While I am coming, another steppeth down before me."
His tale finished, McKelvie drained his glass at a gulp, and his lips pressed together as though he were unwilling that even the volatile essence might escape, and then "We'll go," says he. "Robin!"
Frankland that there is less ground for assuming that the organized and living matter of sewage is oxidized in a flow of twelve miles of a river than for assuming that dead organic matter is oxidized in a similar flow. Chem. News. By CHARLES G. WARNFORD LOCK. This celebrated perfume is the volatile essential oil distilled from the flowers of some varieties of rose.
The lady agreed. But women are volatile. She was the next moment laughing at something she had heard with the largest part of her ear, and she thought the worthy gentleman too simple, though she knew him for one who had amassed wealth. Captain Con and Dr. Forbery had driven the Unicorn to shelter, and were now baiting the Lion.
He sat on the edge of the table, and expostulated with her for a long time. But she went on until the last spoon was polished. "Don't you think we'd better get something for Knollys? Sal volatile or iced water, or something?" she said at last, looking at her black hands. He shrugged his shoulders. "Oh, leave him alone.
I don't pretend that I myself am half what I might have been, but I went through it all as a girl without becoming absolutely vapid and volatile. Didn't I, dear?" "You certainly did, Josephine. If Winona turns out your equal I shall be more than satisfied." "Thank you, dear, but you mustn't say it. I do wish her to have more mind.
Tar being a pseudo liquid fuel, in arranging for its combustion one has to provide for the 20 to 25 per cent. of solid carbon which it contains, and which is deposited in the furnace as a kind of coke or breeze on the distillation of the volatile portions, which are much more easily consumed than the tar coke.
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