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After climbing in and folding himself up into an incredibly small space, Kaviak managed with superhuman skill to cover himself neatly with a patchwork quilt of Munsey, Scribner, Century, Strand, and Overland for August, '97.
Instead of growing in clumps and low, heathy mats, it manages in some way to maintain an erect position, and usually stands single.
"Mr. Philip," he said, "you'll excuse me, sir, but if you're going to pay all the poor folks' rent as have distresses put in, you may just go into the court at once, for it's without end" "I am going to be the agent myself, Morphew, and manage for my father; and we'll soon put a stop to that," I said, more cheerfully than I felt.
'I don't know how we shall manage without you for the holidays, Miss Townsend.
"But how'll we manage at the junction?
Her household was managed on English principles, her children brought up by English nurses, she herself always spoke English with them.
Taking the path leading to the right, we managed by dint of a little wading to reach Gerde, a village possessing little internal interest besides the neat church, but otherwise known to fame from the "palomières," or pigeon-traps, worked between the trees which fringe the hills above it.
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Innumerable cases might be mentioned, if one wished to go into details, in which you entrusted business to him to manage as consul, and he has not conducted a single bit of it as the circumstances demanded, but has done quite the opposite, using against you the authority that you imparted.
It is harder to manage than a Saratoga trunk.
But how are we to manage about the practice?" "We shall find you a substitute.
"As to thy first question, sir smith, 'tis no matter for that, but as for thy second, to-day am I come to teach thee the use and manage of horse and lance, it being so my duty.
For three weeks, they have been hourly expecting the roofs of their houses to fall in and crush them; and with much difficulty have managed during the quieter moments of the day to procure enough to keep them from dying of starvation.
The Admiral sent out two torpedo-boats, which managed after a lot of difficulty to bring in the yacht safely, but the Captain of the Port has a suspicion that the crew were trying to make away with the vessel.
Me, also, it amazed; though my emotion was chiefly concerned with those gracious effects which the gods continued to manage from that apparently meaningless sojourn of J. Rodney Potts among us.
" "Can't we manage between us, though, to carry some of them?" said Fred.
That never before had the matter of a triumph been managed through the people; but that the consideration of that honour and the disposal of it, had always rested with the senate; that not even the kings had infringed on the majesty of this most august body.
It seems that all the servants had left the place, in a body, as you might say, and now they were managing among themselves, assisted by some day-help.
Marcus, in spite of himself, was managed into a sale.
Can you sing?" "No," "Can this youngster sing, Helen?" "She sings very nicely to herself sometimes, but I do not know how she would manage before company.
And at the eighteenth hour of each journey, I made a place for my slumber; and the first I did manage under a thick bush; but the second was high upon the ledge of a rock that grew upward in the night amid the bushes.
The Tears of the Indians: the History of the bloody and most cruel proceedings of the Spaniards in the Islands of Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and other places of the West Indies; in which to the life, are discovered the tyrannies of the Spaniards, as also the justnesse of our War so successfully managed against them.
Any man could be managed like a child if he were really in love with one.... "Don't be a goose, Peter; do you suppose I'd have kissed you if" "If whatwhatwhat?"
General Joffre had as many men as he could manage along the fighting lines.