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...eard all this so many times. But now and then she would rise, lay down her sewing, and come slowly to the fence. There was a charm in these gentle rav... ... causes unhappiness; and Captain Hagberd lived amongst a scheme of settled notions which it pained him to feel disturbed by people’s grins. Y es, peo-...

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...ttered with shoes, dolls, whisky bottles, bundles wrapped in newspapers, a sewing bag. The old- est boy takes a mouth-organ out of his coat pocket, wi... ...Jenson and Frederick Ludelmeyer and Howland & Gould, the meat markets, the notions shop—they expanded, and hid all other structures. When she entered ... ...she could say what she thought. On a slow afternoon when she fidgeted over sewing and wished that the telephone would ring, Bea announced Miss Vida Sh... ...noon coffee.” The delighted Bea helped her bring out the ancestral folding sewing-table, whose yellow and black top was scarred with dotted lines from... ...” The fifes were combs with tissue paper; the drums were tabourets and the sewing-table. Loren Wheeler, editor of the Dauntless, led the orchestra, wi... ... I never saw anything like that before!” Mrs. McGanum stopped Carol at the notions shop to hint, “My, that’s a nice suit—wasn’t it terribly expensive?... ...u talk about a more attractive town—” “Why now, child, you’ve got a lot of notions. Besides what’s the matter with the town? Looks good to me. I’ve ha... ...mail; while Aunt Bessie inquired, “Do you sup- pose there’s many folks got notions like hers? My! If there are,” and her tone settled the fact that th... .... Go on! Say what you’re thinking.” “Well, my dear, if I did take all your notions seriously, it would be pretty discouraging. Imagine how a person wo...

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...t married, and I soon perceived he had all a Frenchman’s, all a Parisian’s notions about matrimony and women. I sus- pected a degree of laxity in his ... ...horred, from my soul, mere licentiousness. He felt the dif- ference of our notions, and, by mutual consent, we kept off ground debateable. Pelet’s hou... ...t practice improves; besides, I work under difficulties; here I only teach sewing, I can show no power in sewing, no superiority—it is a subordinate a... ...e turn- ing of waist, wrist, hand, foot, and ankle satisfied completely my notions of symmetry, and allowed a lightness and freedom of movement which ... ...n; besides, I considered her now qualified to do something more than teach sewing. I reasoned with her; left the decision to herself; she saw the corr... ... me. He did not say he was surprised, but surprised he was; he had his own notions of good breed- ing. I saw he suspected I was going to take some ver...

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... 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 whol... ...aps 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 bo... ...st, then, remark that Teufelsdrockh, as a speculative Radical, has his own notions about human dignity; that the Zahdarm palaces and courtesies have n... ...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-devoted- ness to Cloth... ...n the Mosque of St. Sophia, and looked upon these Four-and-Twenty Tailors, sewing and embroi- dering that rich Cloth, which the Sultan sends yearly fo...

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...ce were right?” he said to himself. “What a fool I am to listen to women’s notions! I’ll speak of it to my uncle Pillerault this morning; it is only a... ...adame does not wish you to go out—” “Pshaw!” said Birotteau, “more women’s notions!” “—without your coffee, which is ready.” “That’s true. My neighbor... ...r a week, fearing what he called the et caetera of lawyers. Outside of his notions as a proprietor, Jean-Baptiste Molineux seemed good and obliging. H... ...her marriage she was even less than I was,” said Constance. “She did plain sewing in the Rue Montmartre; she made shirts for your father.” “Well, now ... ...ber and serious bourgeoisie,—whose comical demeanor, with their respectful notions about the nobility, and their devotion to the Sovereign and the Chu... ...“Rousseau’s Dream,”—a pretty piece of music by Herold; while Constance sat sewing beside him. The poor man laid his head on a cushion, and every time ...

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... around your neck; for if you marry for money, what becomes of our exalted notions of honor and so forth? You might as well fly in the face of social ... ...housand francs, because I want to have two hundred negroes to carry out my notions of the patriarachal life properly. Negroes, you see, are like a sor... ...hat floated over his mental horizon; they were less cynical than Vautrin’s notions; but if they had been tried in the crucible of conscience, no very ... ...hink it probable that Poiret, a retired clerk, doubtless possessed of some notions of civic virtue, though there might be nothing else in his head—who... ...wn set—” “Then is he a man of honor?” asked Poiret. “Yes, according to his notions. He agreed to take another man’s crime upon himself—a forgery commi... ...ac had already been obliged to pay the priest. Sylvie asked ten francs for sewing the old man in his winding-sheet and making him ready for the grave,...

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...nd sweep,—and, at our idler intervals, to repose ourselves on knitting and sewing,—these, I suppose, must be femi nine occupations, for the present. ... ... has probably no more tran scendental purpose than to do my miscellaneous sewing, for I suppose she will hardly expect to make my dresses.” “How can ... ...ht throb uncomfortably; she would mortify herself, I suppose, with foolish notions of having sacrificed the honor of her sex at the foot of proud, con...

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...er own family destroyed his domestic peace. He says their pride and narrow notions poisoned—yes, that is the word— poisoned her mind against him; and ... ...k!’ continued his father. ‘It is the very case where a woman’s exaggerated notions of right may be wrought on to do her infinite harm! They become qui... ... pacifies Ponsonby with talking of difficulty of dealing with preconceived notions. Knows how to get hold of him. Mar- 72 Dynevor Terrace V olume II ... ...e path of duty. She replied, that she would never say a word to change his notions of right, and she treated poor Oliver with all the lofty reserve th... ...rlotte,’ said Marianne, one afternoon when they sat down together to their sewing; Marianne’s eyes were brighter, and her cheeks pinker, than for many... ...r horses went thundering off, with Mrs. Frost apologiz- ing—’Poor Oliver’s notions were on such a grand scale!— He had been so long absent, that he di...

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...sible to imagine. She furnished correctly, dressed correctly, had se- vere notions of whom she might meet, went to church, and even at times took the ... ...re a Clarke who wrote theology? He was a draper.” “There was one started a sewing cotton, the only one I ever heard tell of.” “Have you ever read ‘Hea...

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...st enfeebles the will-power of the working man and gives his kids a lot of notions above their class. And you—if you’d tend to business instead of foo... ...laid out a new fifteen-cent school exercise-book on his wife’s collapsible sewing-table, set up for the event in the living-room. The household had be... ...te in the exercise-book, to the rhythmical wig- gling and squeaking of the sewing-table. When he rose, damp and jumpy, and his throat dusty from cigar... ... entered the church except to wash the windows or repair the furnace—and a sewing-circle which made short little pants for the children of the poor wh... ...hundred and sixty-five days a year, and ruining my eyes over that hor- rid sewing-machine, and looking after your clothes and Rone’s and Ted’s and Tin...

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...new comers, not only from old association of their name with revolutionary notions, but because the old Miss Stympsons, of Lake Side, who had connecti... ...ure to end in the raising of his rent, and young gentlemen had new-fangled notions that only led to expense and nonsense, and it was safest in the lon... ...or little Henry,” but what did she not imagine as to Botany Bay? She began sewing up sovereigns in chamois-leather bags to be dispersed all over her p...

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...hey must sleep in their clothes. Life was always so rough, and, to present notions, comfortless, that all this was not nearly so terrible to the farme... ...gh had been wasted over the young man, and sum- moned the girl back to her sewing. Emlyn made a face of disgust, very comical and very joy- ous, but a...

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... that was too casual. ‘Yes!’ cried Ursula, too eagerly, throwing aside her sewing and leaping up, as if to escape something, thus betraying the tensio... ...pulse: re- sign your will to the higher being,’ said Birkin. ‘What curious notions you have of love,’ jeered Ursula. ‘ And woman is the same as horses... ... Then he went on to his mother’s room. She was sitting in her purple gown, sewing, very slowly sewing, putting in a stitch then another stitch. She lo... ...’s dead? Who says so?’ ‘Oh, you know, mother, if you see him.’ She put her sewing down, and slowly rose. ‘Are you going to see him?’ he asked. 333 ‘Y...

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... he freely relinquished to Richard the needle and thread that were used in sewing the bandages, for these were implements of which the native but litt... ...hat way , and mindful of the liberality , or rather laxity, of Marmaduke’s notions on the subject of sec- tarianism, thought it most prudent to be sil... ...r- emonies less papal and offensive, and more conformant to his or her own notions of devout worship, than they had 113 James Fenimore Cooper been le... ...ies; and what to our present senses may seem irreconcilable to our limited notions of mercy, of justice, and of love, shall stand irradiated by the li... ...rm-hearted relation, I will own, as in duty bound, but you have some queer notions about you, after all. ‘Come, let us be jolly, and cast away folly.”... ...be like a stub- born ox—the more you beat, the worse he kicks.” The sturdy notions of independence maintained by Billy neither suited the emergency no...

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... to- tal silence reigned, he saw his mother through the window, as she sat sewing by the light of the curiously constructed lamp while she awaited him... ...lyste’s coolness an effect of his English education, cast aside her gloomy notions; she heard her lot so envied by many unhap- pily married women that...

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... our arms of our own forging, and our clothes of our own cut ting out and sewing.” Plato was by chance up on the next shelf, and observing those that... ...The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces – Swift 55 Yet could such notions entertain, That all his lectures were in vain? She owned the wand’r... ...ice, and the like, are so apt to disturb the peace of human minds, and the notions whereof are so hard to be eradi cated by right reason or free thin... ...is educa tion. From this fountain were said to be derived all our foolish notions of justice, piety, love of our country; all our opinions of God or ... ...or the rest, it may perhaps admit a controversy, whether the banishing all notions of religion whatsoever would be inconvenient for the vulgar. Not th... ...nch unbelievers, as any of the highest rank. But I conceive some scattered notions about a superior power to be of singular use for The Battle of the ...

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...ly in a Norfolk jacket and a gray flan- nel shirt, went on with his clumsy sewing, while Dick chuckled over the sketch. Some twenty whale-boats were n... ...ou believe, don’t you, that I love you? I don’t want you to have any false notions about brothers and sisters.’ Maisie looked up for a moment and drop... ...girl that lives with me is red-haired, and an impression- ist, and all our notions clash.’ ‘So do ours, I think. Never mind. Three months from to-day ... ...omes from outside ourselves. Very good. If we sit down quietly to work out notions that are sent to us, we may or we may not do some- thing that isn’t... ...nday, and Tuesday gone and you haven’t done a line. It’s scandalous.’ ‘The notions come and go, my children—they come and go like our ‘baccy,’ he answ... ...hand,—’being left alone with an ink-pot and what he conceived were his own notions, went and spilt them both over me in the papers. You might have eng...

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...at such moments her cheek would flush, her idle hands would lay the muslin sewing on the polished oak counter, and presently her mother would say in a... ...al conversation, but she could contribute nothing brilliant. Her religious notions and home-grown prejudices were antagonistic to the complete emancip...

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...its and ways of provincial life into which he plunges, and his re- forming notions leave him. From this there do result, how- ever, certain trifling, ... ...e muzzle was turned up to her with a coaxing look. Pierrette preferred the sewing-women to her relations. She was endearing in her ways with them, she... ...r that gaunt woman loved to impress those under her with salutary awe. The sewing-women were delighted with Pierrette. Their work, however, was not ca... ...id Sylvie, “you are to stay in the dining- room with a candle, and do your sewing. Y ou are not wanted 100 Pierrette in the salon; I sha’n’t have you...

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...realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains, but strangely impressive.... ...e, they were all gone out in the carriage with their mama. Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, puttin... ...ed; for as Abbot said, in discussing the subject with Bessie when both sat sewing in the nursery one night, after I was in bed, and, as they thought, ... .... Mrs. Reed and I were left alone: some minutes passed in silence; she was sewing, I was watching her. Mrs. Reed might be at that time some six or sev... ...oom, with directions to hem the same. At that hour most of the others were sewing likewise; but one class still stood round Miss Scatcherd’s chair rea... ...sage with the outer world: school- rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences,... ...ce. Nothing ever rode the Gytrash: it was always alone; and goblins, to my notions, though they might tenant the dumb carcasses of beasts, could scarc... ...e only additional one I had, except one of light grey, which, in my Lowood notions of the toilette, I thought too fine to be worn, except on first-rat... ..., Miss Eyre, for the present; is that all?” “Yes?” “It seems stingy, to my notions, and dry, and unfriendly. I should like something else: a little ad...