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...................................................................................................................... 12 Auntie’s Skirts .................. ... A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. 13 A Child’s Garden of V erses XV Auntie’s Skirts Whenever Auntie... .... XXV The Wind I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies’ skirts across the gras...

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...nding with his knees together and his body somewhat bent so as to give the skirts of his coat an opportunity of doing extra duty, he begged me to see ... ...mpy. The black silk was not long, as dresses now are worn, nor wide in its skirts. In every way it was skimpy, considering the breadth it had to cover... ...s. Jones?” “Indeed we did,” said Mrs. Jones, bringing out from beneath the skirts of her dress and ostensibly displaying a large black bag. “And I’ve ...

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...t to a few bars of anticipatory music and a girl, in a pink dress with short skirts, galloped upon the stage. She smiled upon the throng as if in ackn... ...e of gas jets. She divulged the fact that she was attired in some half dozen skirts. It was patent that any one of them would have proved adequate for... ...nt that any one of them would have proved adequate for the purpose for which skirts are intended. An occa sional man bent forward, intent upon the pi... ...dness. As she passed them the girl, with a shrinking movement, drew back her skirts. Chapter XIII JIMMIE DID NOT RETURN home for a number of days afte... ...ing along the aisles with trays covered with glasses; stumbling over women’s skirts and charging two prices for everything but beer, all with a swiftn... ...rugged impatient shoulders in their warm cloaks and stopped to arrange their skirts for a walk through the storm. People having been comparatively sil... ...is tant home, bending forward in her handsome cloak, dain tily lifting her skirts and picking for her well shod feet the dryer spots upon the paveme... ...ell groaning to the floor. The women screamed in disgust and drew back their skirts. “Come ahn,” cried one, starting up angrily, “let’s get out of her...

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...over the shoulders, quite like the modern evening gown; very full tarleton skirts of different shades of pink and cerise, reaching to the knees; ruffl... ...s; ruffled bloomers of apple-green tarleton, the ruffles showing below the skirts; black silk stock- ings and black ballet slippers, laced with green....

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...he gulfs beneath, 15 The howlings from forgotten fields; Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor An inner trouble I behold, A spectral doubt which makes m... ...each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith... ...simple village green; Who breaks his birth’s invidious bar, 5 And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grappl...

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...m the clouds. And Professor Spi- ral,—But here we have a belated breeze of skirts. (The reference is to the arrival of LYRA, breathless.) SCENE III HO...

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...hich he succeeded in copying La Zambinella, notwithstanding the veils, the skirts, the waists, and the bows of ribbon which concealed her from him. In... ...ould resist them. Tightly fitting white stockings with green clocks, short skirts, and the pointed, high-heeled slippers of Louis XV.’s time contribut...

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...h- and-tumble hills. For some time past I had heard the ringing of cattle-bells ahead; and now, as I came out of the skirts of the wood, I saw near up... ...as the first man upon the earth, an inland castaway – was to find a fraction of my day-dreams realised. I was on the skirts of a little wood of birch,... ...with the hale colour and circular wrinkles of a peasant; and as he complained much of how he had been impeded by his skirts upon the march, I have a v... ... was no dangerous deceiver; but a country parson, full of zeal and faith. Long may he tread Gevaudan with his kilted skirts – a man strong to walk and...

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...boots; the tassels on the latter bris tling, like his pigtail, and his coat skirts, and the hair upon his head. The chain he drew was clasped about ... ...early the case; for though the Ghost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, and skirts, and tassels, were still agitated as by the hot vapour from an ove... ...I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw.’ ‘It might be a claw, for the flesh there...

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...ature to rest without looking about them, Mrs. William’s neatly flow ered skirts — red and white, like her own pretty face — were as composed and ord... ... quite content to catch meek glimpses of things in general from behind its skirts, or over its limp flapping The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain ... ...e boy to come to him. “I like the woman best,” he answered, holding to her skirts. “You are right,” said Redlaw, with a faint smile. “But you needn’t ...

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...d boots; the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pigtail, and his coat skirts, and the hair upon his head. The chain he drew was clasped about h... ...early the case; for though the Ghost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, and skirts, and tassels, were still agitated as by the hot vapour from an ove... ...I see something strange, and not belonging to yourself, protruding from your skirts. Is it a foot or a claw!” “It might be a claw, for the flesh there ...

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...t; freshened by every huge, unwieldy, half inhabited old house in its out skirts: and coming to its climax when the city gate is reached, and all Gen... ...immediately—it was a dark, muddy day, and there had been heavy rain—on the skirts of the Carnival. We did not, then, know that we were only looking at... ... of general licence, with their feet upon the cushions—and oh, the flowing skirts and dainty waists, the blessed shapes and laughing faces, the free, ... ..., came and went, and talked together. Women and children fluttered, on the skirts of the scanty crowd. One large muddy spot was left quite bare, like ... ...he dead: hideously masked, and attired in shabby black robes, white at the skirts, with the splashes of many muddy winters: escorted by a dirty priest... ...ch between two careful per sons; while others of the thirty hold by their skirts, to pre vent their falling forward—a necessary precaution, tending ...

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... to man, Like perfect music unto noble words; And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, Sit side by side, full-summed in all their powers, Dispensi... ...seas; A red sail, or a white; and far beyond, Imagined more than seen, the skirts of France. ‘Look there, a garden!’ said my college friend, The Tory ...

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...ou, pretty youth? ROSALIND: With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat. 48 As You Like It Act I... ...t, purposely to take His brother here and put him to the sword: And to the skirts of this wild wood he came; Where meeting with an old religious man, ...

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...down alleys and groves until he had discovered and attached himself to her skirts. And, curiously, the object of his jeal- ousy was the devoted Alonzo... ...d me!’ she fanned a wind on her face, and sumptuously spread her spherical skirts, attended by the vanquished and captive Colonel Poltermore, a gentle...

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...indow and grasped one of the bars of the ladder. She began to descend. Her skirts embarrassed her greatly. Suddenly a stone was de tached from the wa...

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...m fresh evidences either of my lord’s inherent gross- ness or of the innocence of his inhumanity; treading gin- gerly the ways of intercourse, like a ... ...ld appear not the least sign of cordiality between the house of Hermiston and that of Cauldstaneslap. Going to church of a Sunday, as the lady houseke... ...ollection of minor lapses and mistakes. She had kilted her gown, as she did usually at that rugged pass; but when she spied Archie still standing and ... ... with sur- prise, for though he had just been paying her compliments, he had not really looked at her. “Hey! what’s yon?” For the grey dress was cut w...

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...ey laugh with such an excess of glee, As I heavily slip into every pool That skirts the cold cold Sea. Ye Carpette Knyghte I have a horse — a ryghte g...

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...op of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called, and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horses tail. Such wa...

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... the hard Wiltshire ale, and before all beer was bitterness. It was on the skirts of Salisbury Plain, and the midnight wind that rattled my lattice wi...