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It is of youth alone that I am concerned to write, for it is a comfort to my soul to know that once in my decorous progress through life I could kick my heels and forget to count the cost; and as youth cries farewell, so I end my story and turn to my accounts.

you understand your Pen and Ink, how to count your dirty Money, trudge to and fro chaffering of base commodities, and cozening those you deal with, till you sweat and stink again like an o'er heated Cook, faugh, I smell him hither.

"Now, candidly, Rudolph"relinquishing the game, she fell to shuffling the cards"just count up the number of times this month that myoh, well!

I didn't want it either, I had never lived much in England, had not many friends there, and was counting the days until we could get off to Rome.

At last the twentieth day arrivedthe day on which Harrington was to returnand I counted the hours from morning till night, but the day passed away with no signs of Harrington.

Soon they made the Medicine Lodge, and, first of all the warriors, Mik-a'pi was chosen to cut the raw-hide which binds the poles, and as he cut the strands, he counted the coups he had made.

And Reginald Hawthorne counted himself a perfectly happy man.

Having no hop pillow, he would count sheep One sheep going over the fence, two sheep, threeHow tired he was!

This change from icy darkness and death to life and beauty was slow, as we count time, and is still going on, north and south, over all the world wherever glaciers exist, whether in the form of distinct rivers, as in Switzerland, Norway, the mountains of Asia, and the Pacific Coast; or in continuous mantling folds, as in portions of Alaska, Greenland, Franz-Joseph-Land, Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, and the lands about the South Pole.

Aylmer was wandering about the half-dismantled house désoeuvré, with nothing to do, restlessly counting the minutes till two in the afternoon.

Ah, little must thou count my years of beauty and of bloom, If thou wouldst wed them with a life thus tottering to the tomb, Decrepitude is now thy lot, and wherefore canst thou dare To ask that youthful charms these vile infirmities should share?"

The Boy whipped out a little roll of money, counted out thirty dollars, and held it towards the Colonel.

King counted out the last crisp note.

Then began a hasty move on the part of both girls and boys to count the gold and silver.

He carried his cane under his arm now, and was holding his lantern close to something that he held in his hand, and upon which he looked narrowly as he walked with a slow and measured tread in a perfectly straight line across the sand, counting each step as he took it.

A teller was appointed to count the votes.

Will he tell me whether, in his after life, when he was the owner of broad acres, fine houses, piles of stocks in paying corporations, and huge deposits in solvent banks, he ever felt richer or prouder when counting his gains, and contemplating the aggregate of his wealth, than he did when he pulled on his first pair of boots?)

I tried to count the seconds in order to have some knowledge of the passage of time; but could not fix my mind upon such a simple act.

So, fare thee well, holy father, and mayst thou not ha' cause to count thy beads in earnest ere we meet again.

It consisted in extending her open and hollow palm, into which the priest counted the three hundred pieces of gold with as much expedition as was compatible with the frequent interruptions necessitated by the crone's depositing each successive handful in a leather pouch; and the scrutiny, divided between jealousy and affection, which she bestowed on each individual coin.

But I had counted my chickens too soon, and was to be woefully disappointed.

I counted the sonorous, deliberate strokes, and then, in the silence that followed, my hands began to tremble with the suspense.

But the Helvetii, who occupied that part of the Alps known to-day as Switzerland, meditated an emigration into the plains of Gaul, and, as their shortest route lay across the Roman provinces, they asked leave of Caesar to pass three hundred and sixty thousand souls in all, counting women and children, through the imperial territory.

I count it a privilege to hold the hand of a brave man.

And so, dear young friend, fall to at once, taking such things as I have provided for you; and if you turn them, by the aid of your powerful imagination, into a fair banquet, why, then, peace be with you, and a summer by the still waters of some quiet river, or by some yellow beach, where, as my friend, the Professor, says, you can sit with Nature's wrist in your hand and count her ocean-pulses.

1030 collocations for  counter