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...n income of sixty thousand francs in the funds.” “Well then, monsieur, the notions you term ‘Regency’ are quite out of date at a time when a man is ta... ...iniscences. We got to be like brothers. The scoundrel—quite Regency in his notions—tried indeed to deprave me altogether, preached Saint-Simonism as t... ...sieur Crevel, if you would indeed be my friend and give up your ridiculous notions—” “Ridiculous? Madame, do not run yourself down. Look at yourself—I... ...xpected the fashion to accept her ways and yield to her always out-of-date notions. When the Bar- oness gave her a pretty new bonnet, or a gown in the... ...ther. “I am not tired with work, but tired of life,” said he. “What absurd notions you have!” she exclaimed with some annoyance. “Have you not had a g... ...d her husband come in so late from dining with Florent and Chanor. She sat sewing by the 207 Balzac child’s cot, for she had begun to save a needlewo...

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...gh to sit and chat an hour.’ ‘Oh, certainly, sir! I’ll just fetch a little sewing, and then I’ll sit as long as you please. But you’ve caught cold: I ... ...d sailors and brought to England. Were I in your place, I would frame high notions of my birth; and the thoughts of what I was should give me courage ... ...interrupting herself, the housekeeper rose, and proceeded to lay aside her sewing; but I felt incapable of moving from the hearth, and I was very far ... ...esumed his walks in the grounds with his daugh- ter. T o her inexperienced notions, this itself was a sign of con- valescence; and then his cheek was ... ...dmittance on that side also; and at the door sat my old friend Nelly Dean, sewing and singing a song; which was often interrupted from within by harsh...

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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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... enough I dare say,” he admitted. “Would you like better a man who let his notions lie curled up?” “That I wouldn’t,” answered our new acquaintance. C... ..., naively unscrupulous, flitted through my mind. The salad of unprincipled notions she put into these girl- friends’ heads! Good innocent creature, wo... ...and perplexities of his trial, the imagina- tion of that man, whose moods, notions and motives wore frequently an air of grotesque mystery—that his im... ...all.” There were also some sound re- marks as to the danger of nonsensical notions and the disad- vantages of a quick temper. It sets one’s best frien... ...o “get hold of that thing” by some side which would fit in with his simple notions of psy- chology. “What the deuce are they worrying about?” he asked... ...went and even sat down at times in the room, but a little apart, with some sewing. By the time she had brought in a lighted lamp I had heard all the d...

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... me myself — poor me!’ How the Vicar reconciled his answer with the strict notions he supposed him self to hold on these subjects it is beyond a laym... ...on this matter to wish that their parents would conform a little to modern notions. The walk had made them hungry, Angel in particular, who was now an... ...ally join him there, and perhaps in that country of contrasting scenes and notions and habits the conventions would not be so operative which made lif... ... Coming up presently to the front room on the ground floor she took up some sewing, waiting for her lodgers to ring that she might take away the breakf... ...e back room which was more especially her own apartment, and continued her sewing there. The lady lodger did not return, nor did the gen tleman ring ...

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...group. ‘“When left alone, she seems very happy if she have her knitting or sewing, and will busy herself for hours; if she have no occupation, she evi... ...ir in car riages provided for the purpose. They have among them selves a sewing society to make clothes for the poor, which holds meetings, passes r... ...joicing. It is an excellent house, and the proprietors have most bountiful notions of providing the creature comforts. Dining alone with my wife in ou...

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...to let that idea shudder its way home, and then said: “And according to your notions, what year is it now?” “528 — nineteenth of June.” I felt a mourn... ...eclined it when it was offered. I couldn’t have enjoyed such a thing with my notions; and it wouldn’t have been fair, anyway, because as far back as I... ...ualized. The telegraph, the tele phone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam ... ... and lance and battle axe, and if they couldn’t per suade a person to try a sewing machine on the installment plan, or a melodeon, or a barbed wire f...

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...ities, marvelous soaps and astonishing pickles, type- writing machines and sewing machines, mingled in a sort of visualized clamor. And passing that t... ...with a rhetorical twang protesting, denouncing… . Y ou will consider those notions of my youth poor silly vio- lent stuff; particularly if you are of ... ... eye. “These houses,” he said, “will have to come down, I suppose, and our notions of property must undergo very considerable revision—in the light of...

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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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... bottle of Pisco should be sent along with them. According to Flash Jack’s notions, unmitigated medical compounds were but dry stuff at the best, and ... ...nt. The contents of the chests were of the most miscellaneous description:—sewing utensils, marling-spikes, strips of calico, bits of rope, jack-knive... ... an impropriety in doing otherwise)—this worthy youth, having some genteel notions of retirement, dwelt in a “maroo boro,” or bread-fruit shade, a pre...

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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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...o you; maybe you never heard it in all your life; and I do not give my own notions, for what I am about to say are the opinions of his reverence the p... ...r roots of the woods; let our masters do as they like, with their chivalry notions and laws, and eat what those enjoin; I carry my prog-basket and thi... ...unsettle and perplex, And the instrument he uses Most of all is idleness. Sewing, stitching, any labour, Having always work to do, To the poison Lov... ...rvice of a lady of quality, and I would have you know that for hemming and sewing I have never been surpassed by any all my life. My parents left me i... ...ave about two or three hundred crowns, with which we are, according to our notions, rich and con- tented, for a soldier’s poverty does not allow a mor... ... “Egad,” said Sancho, “but that sort of life squares, nay corners, with my notions; and what is more the bachelor Samson Carrasco and Master Nicholas ...

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...tisfaction, that under their tuition the king and queen had imbibed proper notions of their elevated station, and on all ceremonious occasions conduct... ...being a sailor’s little ‘ditty bag’, containing needles, thread, and other sewing utensils, then came a ra- zor-case, followed by two or three separat... ...e about the lake. This latter proposition completely horrified Kory-Kory’s notions of propriety. He inveighed against it, as something too monstrous t... ...hing too monstrous to be thought of. It not only shocked their established notions of propriety, but was at variance with all their religious ordinanc...

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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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... one,” said a full, grave voice; whereupon he perceived that a quantity of sewing-silk had been sus- pended and entangled over the back, preparatory t... ...ister.” Rowland bowed defer- entially, and the young girl went on with her sewing, with nothing, apparently, either of embarrassment or elation at the... ...the better; but I should like her to take a look at the world and have her notions stretched a little. One is never so good, I suppose, but that one c...

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...right time, nodded to Mrs. Wigram the doctor’s wife, who sat at her window sewing, and so got home. Dinner was at one o’clock; and on Monday, Tuesday,... ...r with Mary Ann than with us, William,” she said, when she returned to her sewing. “One can see he’s been very badly brought up. He wants licking into... ...d on one side like an Aberdeen puppy. She was sitting in an upright chair, sewing, for she had no time to do nothing, and Philip had made himself comf... ...d drains. No, no, I’m not going to take any risk. None of your new-fangled notions for me! When I move from here I’m going to make sure the drains are... ...scope for a man like me. I’m stunted, I’m starved.” Mrs. Athelny , quietly sewing, took no notice of his complaints. Her mouth tightened a little. “It... ...l. Sally was almost as quick as her mother. “ Won’t it hurt your hands for sewing?” asked Philip. “Oh, no, it wants soft hands. That’s why women pick ...

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...y person to be sharply reproved when she sat musing and sighing instead of sewing Diccon’s shirts. Even the father himself could not well brook to hea... ... to give him your daughter. So he was too hot a lover for Master Humfrey’s notions, eh?” said my Lord, laughing a little. “The varlet! He was over pro... ...o supply them with toilette requisites according to her own very lim- ited notions and possessions. The Dame was a very homely, hard-featured lady, de... ...urneys to London, and had a tolerably commo- dious cabin, according to the notions of the time; and though it was late in the year, and poor Cis was l... ...ing Babington to her service, though even then the girl was puffed up with notions of her own importance and had flouted him. And now, all other hope ... ...r as I sat at evening, striving hard to make her give over these fantastic notions and consult her true interest, behold she gave a cry—“Tis his foot!...

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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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...ho lives upon his own bottom and responsibility, making himself no allies, sewing himself on to nobody’s skirts, insulating himself,—hard, when his tr... ...t gave certainly no energetic token of it; and when Ned, who began to have notions of things, proposed to advertise him in the newspapers, or send the...