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Whilst, however, the dispute was going on, the master of The Revenge opened communication with the Spaniards and concluded an arrangement fully honourable to the British, by which it was agreed that those on board The Revenge should be sent to England in due course; those of the better sort to pay a reasonable ransom, and meantime no one was to be imprisoned.

Something in his suave manner of taking everything for granted seemed to make them know each other almost too quickly, and gave her an odd sort of self-consciousness.

It gave him a queer sort of shock, too, as he comprehended, for the first time, that the faint blue vein on that lifted arm held Musgrave blood,the same blood which at this thought quickened.

Here, there was a continuous bubbling; and, occasionally, a curious sort of sobbing gurgle would find its way up from the depth.

Surely, thought I, sailors are every where the same sort of beings, rough and boisterous as the elements they roam over.

"McGinty strikes me as a very decent sort of man, with a knowledge of practical mining and of mining law" Maudie made a low sound of impatience, and pushed her empty glass aside.

In a vague sort of way, I tried to account for its presence there.

I fancy that editors of this baser sort keep on their shelves one or two volumes for their readers' sport and mirth.

The Druids cut their misletoe with a golden hook, and the Persians cut the twigs of Ghez, or haulm, called bursam, with a peculiar sort of concentrated knife.

"Pretty sort o' Klondyker you arego and get nearly drowned first day out!"

For this money they receive two meals; breakfast, consisting of one herring, corn-bread and a dish of molasses and water, very slightly flavored with coffee; and for dinner, corn-bread again, with half a pound of the meanest sort of salted beef, and a soup made of corn-meal stirred into the pot-liquor.

As the sphere in which this author moved was of the middle sort, neither raised to such eminence as to incur danger, nor so deprest with poverty as to be subject to meanness, his life seems to have flowed with great tranquility; nor are there any of those vicissitudes and distresses which have so frequently fallen to the lot of the inspired tribe.

She stood for a moment looking at the ground with a sort of wonder in her eyes, not pleasant to see.

Into them the small body dropped, and together the two came to the floor with a dull sort of crunch.

In choosing fresh butter, remember it should smell deliciously, and be of an equal colour all through: if it smells sour, it has not been sufficiently washed from the buttermilk; and if veiny and open, it has probably been worked with a staler or an inferior sort.

The window was full of artificial flowers, of the cheapest sort, but of very gay colors.

However, the next day he seemed to have forgotten all about it, and when the Giant reminded him of the circumstance, which he did every little while, the Dwarf would grin and say that we must let the women do what they liked, for they were a superior sort of being.

Next below were their husbands and lovers in Sunday blouses, milkmen, butchers, bakers, black-bearded fishermen, Sicilian fruiterers, swarthy Portuguese sailors, in little woollen caps, and strangers of the graver sort; mariners of England, Germany, and Holland.

You may be an honest sort of a man, but you will never be a gentleman; gentle and simple; those are the two grand divisions, and you will always be one of the 'simple.'

Furthermore, owing to the weathering to which the adjacent rocks are subjected, material of the finer sort, susceptible of transportation by rains and o

She wears the plainest sort of dresses,just little straight up and down frocks of brown or drab, or those white cambric things,they are more like baby-slips than anything; and her hats are just the same,great flat all-round hats, not a bit of style to them; and she's a girl of fourteen or fifteen certainly.

The feast was of the lightest sort: sherbet or tea for those who liked it; fruit and crackers, honey or marmaladea triumph in the cultivation of dyspepsia, Jack said when he first began the eating.

We were standing on a little sort of a hill and the water was washing up almost to our feet.

"I should think that the reviving these pretentious to dreams, visions, etc., is not only vain and frivolous as to the matter of them, but also of dangerous consequence to the weaker sort of Christians.

It was a funny sort of sensation dodging through the fog, feeling that at any moment one might blunder up against the muzzle of a loaded carbine.

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