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The disk had no sooner commenced to revolve when Lettigne advanced with a soda-water bottle, a corkscrew and half a lemon, collected at random from the sideboard.
There was the queer old gentleman who had "crossed" eleven times before, and had advice and experience to spare for any one who would listen to them; and the other gentleman, not so old but even more queer, who had "frozen his stomach," eight years before, by indulging, on a hot summer's day, in sixteen successive ice-creams, alternated with ten glasses of equally cold soda-water, and who related this exciting experience in turn to everybody on board.
Then, when he had finished, he rang his bell, and ordered some sherry and soda-water, and stretched himself before the fire, as though his exertions in the public service had been very great, and seated himself comfortably in his arm-chair, and lit a cigar, and again took out Lady Julia's letter.
Kelver, in a natural sort of way, drop in a small part leading up to a little business with a soda-water syphon, it might help the piece." I wrote him his soda-water scene, I am glad to remember, and insisted upon it, in spite of a good deal of opposition. Some of the critics found fault with the incident, as lacking in originality. But Marmaduke Trevor was quite right, it did help a little.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, Valentinian, III. 1. The KAISER to Mr. Monday, August 13th. In a certain political club there used, before the War, to be a popular pick-me-up compounded of a little whisky, a little Angostura and a good deal of soda-water, and known after its inventor as "a Henderson." In one respect the speech explaining his resignation which the right hon.
The rudder is a long paddle, also carved, which is slung in a loop over the stern, while a further decorative effect is often obtained by inverted soda-water bottles stuck upon poles along the sides. Coming downstream the vessel is propelled by oars, usually twelve to sixteen, which the crew ply with a slow rhythmic swing.
I am a sea captain, and I was wrecked a number of years ago. It was on a lonely island and " "Say!" cried Freddie, so excited that he slipped right off the soda-water counter seat. "Say! Are you are you Tommy Todd's father?" "Yes, that's who I am," the man said. "But what do you know of Tommy?" "Why, we'd been leaving a basket of things at his house with Tommy's grandmother.
The sounds of the two bullets were as different as is the sharp pop of a soda-water bottle from the buzzing of an angry wasp.
The worst cases are hurried out of sight, and, going above, we find the disabled lying in groups about the deck, the feather-hats discarded, the muslins crumpled, and we, the old fogies, going to cover the fallen with shawls and blankets, to speak words of consolation, and to implore the sufferers not to cure themselves with brandy, soda-water, claret, and wine-bitters, in quick succession, which they, nevertheless, do, and consequently are no better that day, nor the next.
Gurnet was fond of explaining to his more intelligent patients that here you had the two points of view. "Psychology is like alcohol," he observed; "you may have it with soda-water or without. Religion is the soda-water." Two tiger skins lay on the floor. Dr. Gurnet was a most excellent shot.
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