He struck a most solemn blow upon the piece of wood.
Might it be that this piece of wood has learned to weep and cry like a child?
A piece of his left knee is missing, having been lost years ago when he scattered himself too carelessly.
Aunt Em was the first to discover a piece of the Lord High Chigglewitz.
The man obeyed, and placed in my brother's hands a purse containing five hundred pieces of gold.
Observing her shabby clothes, my brother thought that her gratitude was in reality a hint that he should give her some money to buy some new ones, so he held out two pieces of gold.
I had been now thirteen days on shore, and had been eleven times on board the ship, in which time I had brought away all that one pair of hands could well be supposed capable to bring; though I believe verily, had the calm weather held, I should have brought away the whole ship,
piece by
piece.
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piece she must endure the whole horrid thing again.
According to the view that I am suggesting, a physical object or
piece of matter is the collection of all those correlated particulars which would be regarded by common sense as its effects or appearances in different places.
The children had discovered the glittering hoard, and when in a mischievous mood used to fling showers of moidores, diamonds, pearls and
pieces of eight to the gulls, who pounced upon them for food, and then flew away, raging at the scurvy trick that had been played upon them.
Nicholas had read a great many of these scraps, and was absorbed in a circumstantial and melancholy account of the train of events which had led to Miss Snevellicci's spraining her ankle by slipping on a
piece of orange-peel flung by a monster in human form, (so the paper said,) upon the stage at Winchester,--when that young lady herself, attired in the coal-scuttle bonnet and walking-dress complete, tripped into the room, with a thousand apologies for having detained him so long after the appointed time.
Having travelled some days, we were met by the King's brother, to whom, by the advice of Chec Furt, whose intent in following us was to squeeze all he could from us; we presented some
pieces of Chinese workmanship, such as cases of boxes, a standish, and some earthenware, together with several
pieces of painted calico, which were so much more agreeable, that he desired some other
pieces instead of our Chinese curiosities; we willingly made the exchange.
