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When the wallet and bowl had made the circuit of the table, they were suspended to a pillar in the hall. Each of the company in succession then threw some salt into his goblet, and, placing himself under these symbols of the brotherhood, repeated a jingling distich, produced impromptu for the occasion.
The wonderful woman had something smart and apt to say about each fresh contribution, and used it to screw up the general interest a notch further toward benevolent hysteria. With songs and jokes and impromptu exhortations and prayers she kept the thing whirling, until a sort of duel of generosity began between two of the most unlikely men Erastus Winch and Levi Gorringe.
All that defeated it was the extreme promptness of Lee, the excellent choice of position, and the beginning of that great system of impromptu breastworks which afterward became so powerful an engine against General Grant.
In the few minutes which elapse between the assembling of the form for call-over and the arrival of the form-master, some wag is sure either to stamp on the shoes, accompanying the act with some satirical remark, or else to pull one of them off, and inaugurate an impromptu game of football with it. There was once a boy who went to school one morning in elastic-sided boots....
In that impromptu arena two men stood face to face under the full glare of the gas-lamps one was Guy Livingstone; the other a denizen of the Potteries, yclept "Burn's Big 'un," who had selected B as his training quarters, in preparation for his fight to come off in the ensuing week with the third best man in England for £100 a side. They made a magnificent contrast.
I would make a solemn affidavit to the fact that the maker of a baby-carriage never dreamed of its possible use as an impromptu toboggan for a couple of small boys to coast downhill on in midsummer. Yet these things have been used for these various purposes in our own household experience.
The crowd, now phalanx deep, began to be augmented by the merely curious; men of all ages who could not possibly have known Caroline jostled over and melted into the circle of ever-increasing diameter, until the lady in lavender was the centre of a vast impromptu auditorium. All about her were faces clean-shaven, bewhiskered, old, young, ageless, and now, here and there, a woman.
In response to my request, Wagner played an impromptu version of 'Daisy Bell' on the organ. It was great; not much like 'Daisy Bell, of course; more like a collision between a cyclone and a simoom in a tin-plate mining camp, in fact, but, nevertheless, marvellous.
Did Petruchio and Kate give an impromptu performance of conjugal felicity, or one decided upon beforehand? Was Kate quick-witted enough to guess there was money in it, or was she really, once of a different mind and reformed. Is there any progress to be discerned in the degree of bodily force deemed expedient?
"As if I ever did any such thing and people are so dull," said Miss Du Prel. A few "curried details," as the hostess dejectedly described the fare, had been supplemented with vegetables, fruit, and impromptu preparations of eggs, and the luncheon was pronounced excellent and ample. Miss Du Prel said that she hoped the butcher would always forget to send the meat. She liked these imaginative meals.
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