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...pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint of whiskey instead of a dole. It looked...
...what, good purpose can a cow That brings no calf or milk be bent...
...teams without requiring more of the players interest and time than the game justifies. Keep the sport-goer out of the stands if necessary, except for the alumnus and undergraduate; but by no means carve up a great game simply because the public looks upon it as a Golden Calf. Yale News...
Five feet ten inches he stands in his naked feet. Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16½, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16½, reach 74?complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent...
...mountain tribes goats; tropical ones buffaloes. Asses' milk is highly esteemed far and wide. Each type of milk has its peculiar flavor, sometimes nauseating to the uninitiated. In the wild state, these animals, and the cow also, cease their milk flow after weaning their young. Farmers know that a calf weaned late is unusually frisky...