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of Occurrences 307%

Frenchwomen of all classes take much more interest in the details of their nurseries and the education and bringing-up of their children than we Anglo-Saxons do.

IN Occurrences 41%

A CONVENTION BROKEN UP IN A BOWTHE CHAIRMAN EJECTED.

with Occurrences 20%

It was the Elderly Naval Man, you recallthe two of them being the ship's sole survivors on the deserted island, and both of them lean with hungerit was the Elderly Naval Man (the villain of the piece) who "ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals in the scum of the boiling broth.

for Occurrences 19%

did well enough to beat Philadelphia for fourth place, and while O'Day did not have the satisfaction of finding his first year as a manager generous enough to him to make him the runner-up for the championship team, he actually put his club in the first division, which is something in which many managers have failed and some of them managers of long experience.

on Occurrences 19%

"To-morrow is Sunday," Old Heck announced suddenly with startling distinctness, "and we'll get things in shape to begin the beef round-up on Monday!"

at Occurrences 17%

Under the ardent sun of August, Bumsteadville slowly bakes, like an ogre's family-dish of stuffed cottages and greens, with here and there some slowly moving object, like a loose vegetable on a sluggish current of tidal gravy, and the spire of the Ritualistic church shooting-up at one end like an incorrigibly perpendicular leg of magnified mutton.

TO Occurrences 16%

WRITINGS AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS UP TO 1840.

from Occurrences 9%

" While they were conversing, the two Stanton girls entered the office, having exchanged their costumes for street clothes and washed the make-up from their faces, which were now fresh and animated.

like Occurrences 7%

The wardrobe woman fixed my up like Dennis, and I had seen him go through his stunt so often I thought I could imitate him, and of course there was no talking to do, but just to grunt once in awhile, the way Dennis did, and have an animal look.

BY Occurrences 7%

"They're gone!" CHAPTER XXII PICKED UP BY THE ENEMY

than Occurrences 5%

Just as they were turning to go back to the dismal little grocery, which Dotty thought was more like a lock-up than ever, they met Mr. and Mrs. Parlin riding out in a carriage.

between Occurrences 5%

"It's a toss-up between a drive and a turn on the lake in the electric launch.

against Occurrences 4%

It seemed very still and quiet, and there was no sign of life about the place; the lake itself was deserted save by one of the steamers on which were only a few passengers well wrapped-up against the now keen air.

about Occurrences 3%

"An' they're so simple, too," said the old woman; "nothin' cityfied ner stuck-up about any on 'em, I kin tell ye.

as Occurrences 3%

The book has probably been read as much by grown-ups as by young people, and no work of humour is more heartily to be commended as a banisher of care.

under Occurrences 3%

One of them picked up Ned's searchlight, which had fallen to the floor when Jimmie bunted its owner, and turned its rays on the mix-up under the window.

into Occurrences 2%

It was as if somebody had been pouring Jeeves's pick-me-ups into me through a funnel.

out Occurrences 1%

I saw the end of a tusk stickin' up out of the snow, and I scratched down till I found" He indicated the trophy between them on the floor.

over Occurrences 1%

Tempy told around afterward that the way the old man went for her about it made her feel mighty proud and set-up over her new master.

skeletonlike Occurrences 1%

And yet she held herself erect against the back of her chair, a yellow, dried-up skeletonlike an ancient tree of which the bark only remainswith only her eyes still living in her thin, long visage, in which the wrinkles had been, so to say, worn away.

during Occurrences 1%

The caste of the different native gangs who worked on the twenty-seven viaducts built in Central Africa is a case in point: each group belonging to the same caste had to be provided with its own quarters, cooking utensils, and camp furniture, and dire were the consequences of a mix-up during one of the frequent moves made by the whole party.

through Occurrences 1%

In that great bay there was the rumble and crash of the ice fields thundering down in the early break-up through the Roes Welcomethe doorway to the Arctic, and for that reason there still came with the April wind an occasional sharp breath of winter.

before Occurrences 1%

I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership.

WITH Occurrences 1%

I'LL MAKE YER SO'S YER OWN MOTHER WON'T KNOW YER'; AN' 'E UPS WITH THE PAINT-BUCKET ALL OVER ME, SIR."

after Occurrences 1%

"Sweeping and washing the floor of the three rooms every morning, two stoves which must be black-leaded weekly, each taking an hour, weekly cleaning of windows, tins, dinner-chests, washing-up of bandages, &c., besides the washing-up after each of our five meals, keeps one busy."

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