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| ... smartest bell mare that ever entered the forest. She'd not only find the deer, but she'd make friends with them and lead them straight as a bee-line to where he was hiding. Betsy, you must travel!The Harvester drew the lines taut, and the whip fell smartly. The astonished ... |
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| ... odq;Oh, Miss Dormer, I am so delighted to see you out again.&cdq; &odq;How is the baby, Mr Twentyman?&cdq; &odq;Brisk as a bee, and hungry as a hunter.&cdq; &odq;And how is Mrs Twentyman?&cdq; &odq;Brisker and hungrier than the baby. What do you ... |
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| ... upon his neckcloth. She had no sooner done this, than off she was again; and there she stood once more, as brisk and busy as a bee, tying that compact little chin of hers into, an equally compact little bonnet: intent on bustling out to the butcher's, without a minute's ... |
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| ... gather the honey of friendship out of that thorn-guarded plant. Hello, Crimsworth! where are your thoughts tending? You leave the recollection of Hunsden as a bee would a rock, as a bird a desert; and your aspirations spread eager wings towards a land of visions where, now in advancing ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... these cells is found an attempt at honey, of a poor description. The tenthredon is like the anthrena, but speckled, and about as broad as a bee. Being epicures as to their food, they fly, one at a time, into kitchens and on to slices of fish and the like ... |
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| ... on her apron strings as-all, modest young women us'd to do and drawled, out ye s she-was, as brisk and as merry as a bee MARIA My. honoured mother Sir had, no, motive to melancholy she married- the; man of her choice VAN ROUGH The. man of her ... |
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| ... of a flame through that dream of a flush is uprolled: To the zenith ascending, a dome of undazzling gold Is builded, in shape as a bee-hive, from out of the sea: The hive is of gold undazzling, but oh, the Bee, The star-fed Bee, the build-fire ... |
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| ... look younger than I had ever seen him. I saw him on the day before the eve of the unveiling; he was as busy as a bee, and looked almost handsome. "The boys are coming in by every train," he said. "Look here." He pulled me aside, and unbuttoned his ... |
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| ... an even thousand dollars. Now, what can a man possibly do with a thousand dollars? " "I thought," said Old Bryson, showing as much interest as a bee shows in a vinegar cruet, "that the late Septimus Gillian was worth something like half a million." " He was," assented Gillian, joyously, " and ... |
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| ... his thirty-two sets of novels, while the rain is steadily pouring outside, and the Great Authoress (so he writes her down) as busy as a bee sitting by chattering and making a catalogue of her books. ''We talk about Walter Scott, whom she adores, and are merry all day ... |
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| ... overhauling the mare fast. `Why, it''s a bluff a hundred feet deep -- a straight drop -and rocks at the bottom. She''s making as straight as a bee-line for it now, blast her!'' `And Jim don''t know it,'' I said; `he''s closing up to her, but he doesn''t ... |




