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Updated: May 31, 2025
I flatter myself that I'm rather stout, but if I must tell you the truth I've been shockingly chipped and cracked. I do very well for service yet, because I've been cleverly mended; and I try to remain in the cupboard the quiet, dusky cupboard where there's an odour of stale spices as much as I can. But when I've to come out and into a strong light then, my dear, I'm a horror!"
He accepted, and seated beside the fair teacher, he chipped in an occasional remark to the class, while he looked into the soulful, pious eyes of the handsome teacher. She introduced him to the superintendent as a pious young man from Wisconsin, and the superintendent invited him to address the school.
"But, Monica...." "Listen! Gerry and that spying man-servant of his made trouble. When Des went off that evening and didn't come back, Gerry insisted that we should notify the police. He made an awful scene, then the valet chipped in, and from what he said I knew he meant mischief. I didn't dare trust Gerry with the truth, so I let him send a note to the police.
The man was seated upon the ground holding a stone anvil between his feet, while with his hands he turned and chipped with great skill a spear-head he was making out of flint.
"So you'd keep the blankets soaked, would you?" remarked Billy, winking at the others. "I certainly would." This came with a certain triumphant tone in his voice. "Learned that practising on his head," whispered Podvine. "Right you are, Poddy; but Muggles, suppose the mill caught first," chipped in Monteith. The mill was the apple of his eye.
And then Scaife chipped in, 'Look here, Caesar, he said, 'do I understand that you put this thing, which after all is none of your business or mine, as a favour which Lovell might do you? And Caesar answered, 'You can put it that way, if you like, Demon. And then Scaife laughed. I don't like Scaife's laugh, Jonathan." "I loathe it," said John.
His axe only chipped a little of the surface and made the footing secure.
From our bricks a little corner was chipped off for the "fire-assay" a method used to determine the proportions of gold, silver and base metals in the mass. This is an interesting process.
Michelangelo had never handled a chisel before, but he chipped and cut away the marble so marvellously that life seemed to spring out of the stone. There was a marble head of an old faun in the garden, and this Michelangelo set himself to copy. Such a wonderful copy did he make that Lorenzo was amazed.
Even the arrowheads in Ross's quiver were chipped of flint. They drew the dugout well up onto the shore and ran it into a shallow depression in the bank, heaping stones and brush about for its concealment. Then Ashe intently surveyed the surrounding country, seeking a landmark.
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