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...G Wells they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy. The dinner and my conversational begin- nings ended, I noted for the f... ... turfy bole, and very hastily , as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves. Here and there out of the darkness round me t...

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...ts appearance is a little unfamiliar of course, but all the muddle of dust-collecting hangings and witless ornament that cover the earthly bed- 68 A ...

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... set forth for Lady Belamour’s entertainment, think- ing no opportunity of collecting intelligence was to be de- spised; while she probably wished to ...

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...yed about the station house, some in taking care of the baggage, others in collecting fuel, feeding the engines, and such congenial occupations; and I... ... He has not the sort of ingenuity to invent any thing better than a Dutch toy,” answered her father, who had formerly been put to much vexation by Ow... ...as I said before, his ingenuity could grasp anything bigger than a child’s toy!” “Hush, father! He hears you!” whispered Annie, pressing the old man’s...

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... the disdain of weakness, the eternal preoccupation of sex came out like a toy demon out of a box. “This is odious,” she screamed. He did not stir; bu... .... 165 Joseph Conrad The white man had some supper out of the basket, then collecting a few sticks that lay about the plat- form, made up a small fire...

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...ore or less ab- surd quotations or sentiments. You who spend your lives in collecting autographs, simple and happy souls, like Dutch tulip fanciers, y...

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...r with considerable acidity. “That’s what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils, and sticking Norman arches on one’s pigsties.” “I confe... ...t was over and Mrs. Dalloway was ris- ing. “I always think religion’s like collecting beetles,” she said, summing up the discussion as she went up the... ...etotum spinning in and out—knocking into things—dashing from side to side— collecting numbers—more and more and more, till the whole place is thick wi... ...each of the seven courses was left in fragments and the fruit was merely a toy, to be peeled and sliced as a child destroys a daisy, petal by petal. T... ...ave one unearthly cry, and then all was silent. Rachel occupied herself in collecting one grey stone after another and building them into a little cai... ... know. The boy married a daugh- ter of Lord Pinwells. I know them too. The collecting mania tends to run in families. This chap collects buck- les—men...

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...cco region, and formerly enjoyed a great and lucrative trade in that staple, collecting it there in her warehouses from a large area of country and sh... ...ng ladies, as children, in slippers and scalloped pantelettes, one embracing toy horse, the other beguiling kitten with ball of yarn, and both sim pe... ...d; con vention of desiccated bugs and butterflies pinned to a card; painted toy dog, seated upon bellows attachment—drops its under jaw and squeaks w... ...es were told. I showed him a lot of this sort of literature which I had been collecting, and he confessed that it was poor stuff, ex ceedingly sorry ...

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... Lewisham at the door of the laboratory. “ And in the vacation I have been collecting evidence about ghosts—you remember our arguments. Though I did n... ...he was restless. Unfulfilled … What had she to do? She was drudge, she was toy … “Yes. This is life. This alone is life! For this we were made and bor...

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...their friends war horses, beasts of carriage, and tents in ex- change. And collecting again all the soldiers who had dis- persed at the time of his fl... ...bligation, than that of preferring him to the kingdom. Whilst the army was collecting to the rendezvous at Geraestus, Agesilaus went with some of his ... ...ved to encompass and overpower him. Pompey was no way alarmed at this, but collecting all his troops into one body, and placing his horse in the front... ...e thousand of Pompey’s, against twenty- two thousand of the enemy. Caesar, collecting his soldiers together, told them that Corfinius was coming up to... ... at the senate, and went out last; and often, while the others were slowly collecting, he would sit and read by himself, holding his gown before his b...

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...s Stevenson In the course of two hours or so, more and more ragged Highlandmen kept collecting. Neil among the first, until the party must have number...

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... of lashes. Well, I’ll tell you the sort: when he wasn’t with women he was collecting china. Paying any price for both, I understand.” There was a gen...

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...he por- ter, or of “boots,” or of “underboots,” who began their rounds for collecting the several freights for the Highflyer, or the 245 Autobiograph... ...irst year to my third, naturally fell into her hands as a sort of superior toy, a toy that could breathe and talk. Every year our intimacy had been re...

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...lling with his horn for all legs, true or false, as brew- ery-men go round collecting old beer barrels, to fill ‘em up again. What a leg this is! It l... ...erous cabalistical contrivances, he pondered again, and muttered: “Foolish toy! babies’ plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores, and Captains; t... ...ith thy impo- tence thou insultest the sun! Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man’s eyes aloft to that heaven...

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...es in a veil of clouds. O’er heapy shields, and o’er the prostrate throng, Collecting spoils, and slaughtering all along, Through wide Buprasian field...

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...retty heron fountain, with which I was highly delighted. Playing with this toy, and speaking of our departure, the sage Bacle and myself thought it mi... ...’s. M. de Francueil was then studying natural his- tory and chemistry, and collecting a cabinet. I believe he aspired to become a member of the Academ...

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...influence you for a moment.” Harry paused, not that he doubted, but he was collecting his energies—”Then, papa, I choose the navy.” “Then it is done, ... ...y gift that she thought most successful. So Blanche went with Flora to the toy-shop, and there fell in love with a little writing-box, that so eclipse... ...h what she used to be,” said Margaret gently, “the pretty, gentle, playful toy that her fa- ther brought her up to be, living a life of mere accomplis... ...you more.” “I knew her—” and there he broke off, paused for a minute, then collecting himself, seemed resolutely to turn away from the subject, and sa... ...is own wish, or yours, Flora?” “He wishes it. It is his duty,” said Flora, collecting her dignity. 544 The Daisy Chain “I can say no more, except to ... ...said Norman, who thought her more inanimate and like a pretty little waxen toy, than when he had last seen her. “Is she not rather pale?” “London make... ...e her put her answer playfully— “All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. “T oys have a kindly mission, and I may be good for noth- ing else; bu...

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...hat the kindliest and most unsuspecting nature could bestow , they had, in collecting the plums from Fortune’ s choicest pudding, retained a few for p...

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...d Mr Morton that he was to pay the bill for this 127 Anthony Trollope new toy. He had thought about it, and had assured him- self that driving a coac... ... ever think what money is?’ 473 Anthony Trollope The Duke paused so long, collecting his own thoughts and thinking of his own words, that Gerald foun...

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...to a demand for help. “I’ve got nothing in the world to pack with except a toy size portmanteau. Can you lend me some stuff?” “You are a chap!” said C... ...ire, and Ann Veronica, while she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau counter, had a dis- agreeable sense of being...