to tear out his tongue with his own hands and it is said that on some occasions his fury was so great that he would cut out the heart of a man and bite at it with his great teeth

on the average the twentieth century mail packets will be smaller being built for speed rather than for magnificence or carrying capacity the turbine engine will be the main factor in working the approaching revolution in mail steamer construction

they were assured these were the imps in sixteen forty five one was hanged at cambridge who kept a tame frog which was sworn to be her imp and one at gloucester in sixteen forty nine who was convicted for having suckled a sow

make up his sermons from the books he reads yes if he cannot do better

an intense travail of mind an obscure thrill of alarm an odd little air of penitent self depreciation

miss stevens had from the first conceived a great antipathy to rose whom she considered a dangerous rival and generally avoided excepting when mister dinsmore was with her but she always interrupted a tete a tete

calf's foot blancmange put a set of nicely cleaned feet in four quarts of water and let it boil more than half away strain through a colander and when it is cold scrape off all the fat

there is no more doubt of its being mister savareen than there is of that gate post being there on the road side very good advice it is says he and i'll act upon it without more words then he said good night and off he went up the road

and dragging her broom after her and from that by degrees he recalled the whole adventure of the night when he got down from north wind's back in a london street but he could not quite satisfy himself whether the whole affair was not a dream which he had dreamed when he was a very little boy

but that the borough had grown round the shrine and had served for little save to house its servants when the long ascent was ended and the crest reached where the head of the valley merged into the upper plain i passed into the narrow first lanes

and some cried he has spoken well and some we have had enough of roving we will sail the seas no more and the chief said at last be it so then a plague she has been to us and a plague to the house of her father

i am sorry but suddenly she felt his hand on her shoulder and looked up their eyes met he stooped and said almost in a whisper

i told you before i did not but it is no doubt something in favour of her child i think not he replied such as it is however i grant it but in the strictest sense of the word no farther and one neglect

there is also another form of qualified metaphor having given the thing the alien name one may by a negative addition deny of it one of the attributes naturally associated with its new name

it's gaudy huck i wish there was a moat to this cabin if we get time the night of the escape we'll dig one i says what do we want of a moat when we're going to snake him out from under the cabin but he never heard me

who did ever say except by way of irony that such a one was a man of great virtue but an egregious blockhead but secondly it is no wonder that languages should not be very precise in marking the boundaries between virtues and talents vices and defects

they will hardly have time to do so i trust before it will be out of their power it rests with miss oldcastle herself to say when that shall be

religion fixed their limits

so they were not long getting ready and i am just setting out back again and i hope i shall have no reason to repent it robin put on very vehemently and when we came to the little town where we lay on sunday night he gave his horses a bait

i remember the time when i liked a red coat myself very well and indeed so i do still at my heart and if a smart young colonel with five or six thousand a year should want one of my girls i shall not say nay to him

during the winter with the money for the army

is a relation to a different object namely that desdemona loves cassio but it is almost as difficult to suppose that there is such an object as this when desdemona does not love cassio as it was to suppose that there is desdemona's love for cassio

to keep up conversation with aunt adeline than wear that dress again

cook until thick stirring constantly seasoning with salt pepper lemon juice minced parsley grated onion and a tablespoonful of vinegar butter a baking dish put in a layer of the fish cover with sauce and repeat until the dish is full

it was very gracefully and easily done and a burst of applause greeted his descent he divided his flowers into two equal parts and sweeping off his hat presented them with a bow not to constance but to the officers

go and get married it can't be helped and he took down his hat and went out into the garden so sarah dolittle packed up her things and went off and the doctor was left all alone with his animal family and very soon

but once more bending over the prostrate form proceeded to complete the examination already begun becoming satisfied that there was no serious wound he rose to his feet and commenced taking stock of the odd articles around him

i'll be here at this time to morrow as mister jenks turned aside there was a movement among the trees in the orchard and a shadowy figure was seen hurrying away who's that asked the diamond man in a hoarse whisper

hand round now for all our friends to gush over and pretend they understand

when the prince reached home that day he looked so sad and was so quiet that his father wondered if any ill had befallen him

in which case my lord i should consider you as required by the theatin to to make restitution cried mazarin with great warmth

why so much ado said the master at my merely permitting his approach and not rather at my allowing him to draw back if a man have cleansed himself in order to come and see me i receive him as such

the sexes deceive themselves about each other the reason is that in reality they honour and love only themselves or their own ideal to express it more agreeably thus man wishes woman to be peaceable

carried it into the corner of his cell and covered it with earth then wishing to make the best use of his time while he had the means of labor he continued to work without ceasing at the dawn of day he replaced the stone

i dig a tunnel just big enough to run along comfortably down deep enough to be out of reach of jack frost i make a nice little bedroom with a bed of grass and leaves and i make another little room for a storeroom in which to keep my supply of seeds and nuts

it's splendid as exercise only you'll hardly be able to stand it said sergey ivanovitch without a shade of irony i've tried it it's hard work at first but you get into it i dare say i shall manage to keep it up really what an idea but tell me

purchase it at once in your own name the corvette must now i think be on her way to fecamp must she not certainly your excellency i saw her put to sea the same evening we quitted marseilles and the yacht

but a frenchwoman is seldom direct and has always by way of answer to an embarrassing query some little practical reply of her own in the present instance eugenie who for a few moments past had seemed to be searching for something in her bosom

which might be of service to john secondly people would talk about it if she cut him and would invent some story to the effect that he had proposed to marry her or that she had proposed to marry him it was contrary to her nature to pretend anything she did not feel

said lord antony as he shot a quick and apprehensive glance across at sir andrew marguerite saint just surely yes replied the comtesse surely you know her she was a leading actress of the comedie francaise

this conversation was at breakfast and the lamb had been beautifully good until every one was looking at the carpet and then it was for him but the work of a moment to turn a glass dish of syrupy blackberry jam