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...us, by the care, the minute exactitude, and the intel- ligence it demands. Sewing and white embroidery do not earn thirty sous a day. But the making o... ...lk no more of this. Discussion makes everything small. I will ex- press my notions on this subject in writing to you, for at this moment they are suff...

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...Sir Horace Lester’s sister,—very superior, very active, very strict in her notions,—as if these were so many defects. They were an offshoot of the old... ...ishes of a happy Christmas were verified, though not much according to the notions of this half of the century. People made their Christmas day either... ..., who looked on our wants and wishes with suspicion as savouring of London notions. Happily we could read old books and standard books over again, and... ...lergyman should be on the bench having been quite correct according to the notions of his younger days; and in spite of his beneficence he incurred a ... ...eighbours, any more than did those stronger, stricter, more thorough-going notions of religious obligation which had led her husband to make the very ... ...ed an almost feverish eagerness to make it busy and cheerful, getting up a sewing class in the village, resuming the study of Greek, grappling with th...

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...espect- ing foreign countries, each person’s tastes being according to the notions of his native place; and that he had consequently set very little o... ...o suffering a bullet to be pulled out from amongst the shattered bones, no sewing up, cauterising and searching of wounds, by what means were the adva... ...nion, not matter of faith; things which I discourse of according to my own notions, not as I believe, according to God; after a laical, not clerical, ...

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...he parents! They say it’s a marriage for love.” “For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?” said the ambassado... ...d difficult. Alexey Alexandrovitch was not jealous. Jealousy according to his notions was an insult to one’s wife, and one ought to have confidence in o... ...ogether, I fancy that in the people’s ideas there are very clear and definite notions of certain, as they call it, ‘gentlemanly’ lines of action. And t... ...d for hunting bears,” observed Alexey Alexan drovitch, who had the mistiest notions about the chase. He cut off and spread with cheese a wafer of bre... ...lways stood in the study in Levin’s father’s and grandfather’s days. She was sewing at broderie anglaise. He thought and wrote, never losing the happy... ...here after dinner, and that day they had work to do there too. Be sides the sewing and knitting of baby clothes, with which all of them were busy, th... ...her up. “Is it all right in the new way?” “I suppose it’s all right. For our notions it’s boiled too long.” “It’ll be all the better, Agafea Mihalovna...

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...e, and which the monks of St. Ruprecht’s hoped might infuse some religious notions 65 Yo n g e into the wild, ignorant mountaineers. First however Ch... ...cent of real, not conventional respect. “Spinning and weaving, shaping and sewing,” said Friedel, coming near to let the housewife examine the texture...

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...f Citoyennes that have alighted in Churches, and sit there with swan-neck,—sewing tents and regimentals! Nor are Patriotic Gifts wanting, from those t... ... at home, at supper? For he was an earnest man, Bookseller Momoro; and had notions of Agrarian Law. Mrs. Momoro, it is admit- ted, made one of the bes...

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... the shipping in that Eastern port, I was left in no doubt as to Hermann’s notions of hygienic clothing. Evidently he believed in wearing good stout f... ...spects of mankind) she was a modest and silent presence, mostly engaged in sewing, only now and then, as I observed, falling over that work into a sta... ... that work into a state of maidenly meditation. Her aunt sat opposite her, sewing also, with her feet propped on a wooden footstool. On the other side... ...eyes expressed much interest and commiseration. We had found the two women sewing face to face under the open skylight in the strong glare of the lamp... ...together; I smiled and bowed with a heavy heart: the niece got up from her sewing to bring Hermann’s slippers and his embroidered calotte, which he as... ...he addressed himself, with gestures, to the two women, who would let their sewing sink slowly on their laps. Meantime I sat before a glass of Hermann’... ...ith the real actuality at our elbow. And with my head full of preconceived notions as to how a case of “cannibalism and suffering at sea” should be ma...

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...ary pedant, Saint-Germain, with his Prussian manoeuvres; with his Prussian notions, as if merit and not coat-of-arms should be the rule of pro- motion... ... have the Notables returned home; carrying to all quarters of France, such notions of deficit, decrepitude, distraction; and that States-General will ... ...chener’s, cooking off-hand victuals; for bouche va toujours. Women too are sewing cockades;—not now of green, which being D’Artois colour, the Hotel-d... ...6 The French Revolution: V ol. One may kiss, not without fervour, the fair sewing fingers. Cap- tains of horse and foot go swashing with ‘enormous whi...

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...y pedant, Saint-Germain, with his Prussian manoeuvres; with his Prus- sian notions, as if merit and not coat-of-arms should be the rule of promotion, ... ... have the Notables returned home; carrying to all quarters of France, such notions of deficit, decrepitude, dis- traction; and that States-General wil... ...ener’s, cook- ing off-hand victuals; for bouche va toujours. Women too are sewing cockades;—not now of green, which being D’Artois colour, the Hotel-d... ... epauletted youths; who in return, may kiss, not without fervour, the fair sewing fingers. Captains of horse and foot go swashing with ‘enormous white... ...s and gowns, upper clothes and under, great and small; such a clipping and sewing, as might have been dispensed with. Moreover, her Majesty cannot go ... ... Citoyennes that have alighted in Churches, and sit there with swan-neck,— sewing tents and regimentals! Nor are Patriotic Gifts wanting, from those t... ...ate in these last days, has lovingly recorded what death they made. To our notions, it is not an edifying death. Gay satirical Pot-pourri by Ducos; rh... ... at home, at supper? For he was an earnest man, Bookseller Momoro; and had notions of Agrarian Law. Mrs. Momoro, it is admitted, made one of the best ...

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... factory? Y.M. It could. O.M. What could the stone engine do? Y.M. Drive a sewing machine, possibly—nothing more, perhaps. O.M. Men would admire the o... ...ot create. Y.M. Where WAS his excellence, then? O.M. In this. He was not a sewing machine, like you and me; he was a Gobelin loom. The threads and the... ...forded by that land’s ideals, influences, and training. You and I are but sewing machines. We must turn out what we can; we must do our endeavor and ... ...ts of life to be evilly placed there is no help for him, according to your notions—he must train downward. O.M. No help for him? No help for this cham... ...e whether it is true or false. Y.M. Where did you get your own aggravating notions? O.M. From the outside. I did not invent them. They are gathered f... ...With this result: that . . . that . . . are you intending to publish your notions about Man some day? O.M. Now and then, in these past twenty years, ... ...h them. Outside influ ences—in the form of lifelong teachings, trainings, notions, prejudices, and other second hand importations—have per suaded th... ...d not merely hard to believe it, but impossible; it is opposed to all your notions. And it is just as hard to do it, after you do come to believe it. ...

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... her travelling things and put on an apron. At her chatelaine is a case of sewing materials. LADY CICELY. Mr. Johnson. (He turns.) I’ve got Marzo to s... ...quietly stitching. It soon be- comes clear that a tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming. Further, it begins to daw... ...for the benefit of the mass of readers outside London who still form their notions of cockney dialect on Sam Weller. When I came to London in 1876, th...

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...rs of our small term be spent, till the purblind Youth, by practice, acquire notions of distance, and become a seeing Man. Nay, many so spend their wh... ...rhaps the post of Thirdborough in his hundred, as the crown of long faithful sewing,—was nowise satisfaction enough to such a mind: but ever amid the ... ...st, then, remark that Teufelsdr¨ ockh, as a speculative Radical, has his own notions about human dignity; that the Z¨ ahdarm palaces and courtesies ha... ...s to be admissible, that the Dandy has a Thinking principle in him, and some notions of Time and Space, is there not in this life devotedness to Cloth... ...in the Mosque of St. Sophia, and looked upon these Four and Twenty Tailors, sewing and embroidering that rich Cloth, which the Sultan sends yearly fo...