She was much touched by the attention of Mademoiselle Viré, who sent round by Jeannette wonderful home-made dainties that, as Barbara explained to her aunt, "she ought to have been eating herself. — from Barbara in Brittany by E. A. Gillie
they are big enough to handle and
Prick the seedlings out into larger flats as soon as they are big enough to handle, and when two or three inches high pot them off into two-or three-inch pots of muck, plunging into wet sand and keeping constantly moist. Shift them as the pots fill with roots, and by the time the plants are in four-inch pots the water should be kept standing in the saucer all the time. — from The Flower Garden by Ida D. (Ida Dandridge) Bennett
think about business except to hunt around
And, sir, for three months he don't have to think about business except to hunt around in Deuteronomy and Proverbs and Timothy to find texts to cover and exculpate such little midsummer penances as dropping a couple of looey door on rouge or teaching a Presbyterian widow to swim. — from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry
them all but especially to her and
He saw, of course, that brother Tom was a constant source of annoyance to them all, but especially to her, and his blood boiled impotently on her account. — from A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham
these alone but even the Hottentots and
Yet all these nations, and not these alone, but even the Hottentots and Kaffirs, pronounce the vowels and consonants as we do, because the larynx in them is essentially the same as in us—just as the throat of the rudest boor is made like that of the finest opera-singer, the difference, which makes of one a rough, discordant, insupportable bass, and of the other a voice sweeter than the nightingale's, being imperceptible to the most acute anatomist; or, as the brain of a fool is for all the world like the brain of a great genius. — from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 01 by Voltaire
Ted and Bud entered the house and
Ted and Bud entered the house and were taken into Don's workroom, where he was soon put in possession of the facts concerning the motor car, although Ted said nothing about the real object of his visit lo St. Louis. — from Ted Strong's Motor Car
Or, Fast and Furious by Edward C. Taylor
Thure and Bud expected to have a
The trail, for the greater part of the distance, ran through beautiful valleys and over low-lying hills, where nature still reigned unfretted by man and where a human being was seldom seen, consequently Thure and Bud expected to have a lonely ride to Sacramento City. — from The Cave of Gold
A Tale of California in '49 by Everett McNeil
they are big enough to hold a
Among the dairying fraternity little toddlers, ere they are big enough to hold a bucket, learn to milk. — from My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
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