... that Great Britain would be unwise to allow Germany's Navy to become double the size of her own. Somebody ought really to speak to Mr. Stead. Such an outburst of Jingoism should not pass without a protest. a a a 'TNre Rev. R. J. Campbell is much exer- ...

... Busker said in her pretty nasal twang that seems to get worse the longer she stays in England. (She'd hardly any accent to speak of when Lady Bulstrode began taking her out last season.) That evening when we had been given our candlesticks and were going ...

... Busker said in her pretty nasal twang that seems to get worse the longer she stays in England. (She'd hardly any accent to speak of when Lady Buls'trode began taking her out last season.) That evening when we had been given our candlesticks and were going ...

... must have been a shocking bad hat when he restored it to his head. THE SWAN SONG OF ALGERNON ASHTON This pathetic message speaks for itself. The world is in tears, and the newspapers not honoured with the exception-- shown in ink on the letter sit in ...

... be as thick as a channel fog wi' steam and 'baccy smoke and smelling of spirits so that you cud drink with your nose, so to speak. Just like a bit out of a mad dream it used to sound when he'd talk about it. No, sir, not much (in reply to a question here ...

... Problem CCIII. Jog, Rubber, Theta, Tubby. To P oblem CCIY. Ashtray. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Cellis. The double revoke you speak of was certainly very extraordinary. Probably the younger hand, seeing two clubs and a spade on the table, was under the impression ...

... with the face of a three days' corpse, all white and stiff, and grey eyes with a great green splash in one of them, not to speak of a big Spanish case-knife to his hip. Little cared he for hard words and rough looks and even these dropped off soon, for ...

... bein' frightfully hurried in pay- in' their subscriptions. I had a quiet, soothin' talk to that hatter, decorated him, so to speak, with the V.C., and gave him the order for the flat-brimmed topper that made his fortune, and is the only bright spot in the ...

... cleverer than that. Probably you will, since you come to the game with an alert, fresh mind. In alluding to yourself, always speak in terms of glowing approbation. This gets a laugh, and is, therefore, excellent business. Actually, you must have no respect ...

... word. He was a big man, the Captain a big man with a coal-black eye and the temper of a fiend. There was days when he would speak to no man, and woe to the man who spoke to him when the black fit was on him. A blow or a kick .was the least he would get ...

... bracelet, with its ancient medallion and its old- time language. She was so angry, so confused, and mortified that she could not speak. She retreated further into the great cushioned sofa on which they sat and tried to screen her face. Tears of mortification ...

... whose outlandish dress was only equalled by the strangeness of his speech. A gipsy he must be, she thought none other would speak with such an accent. Yet his face was scarcely of the gipsy type though his eyes and hair were dark, his skin was fair, his ...