Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same Devil appeared to have become such a very active mover in the world, that he inspired a number of very similar poems among English poets. Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley all wrote short satires on English society founded on the same idea, that of the Devil visiting "his nice little farm the earth to see how his stock gets on," in which it is taken for granted that the earth, especially England, and still more especially the individual objects of the writer's personal dislike, belong to the Devil without any kind of doubt. He is also found in other...
...related that the last time Mr. Gladstone went to Nice to recuperate, a friend found him in the garden one day writing page after page of what seemed to be an important public dispatch. He apologized for the interruption. "Not at all," said the prime minister; "I am only writing in reply to an Eton boy who wrote to me on a point in Homer." He confessed that he did not know his questioner; but it was a pleasure for an old Etonian to spend his holiday in satisfying the desire for knowledge...
...restaurant and general refreshment room. The hungry man has taken to sitting himself comfortably back in one of the alcoves, with his pockets full of candy, or crackers, or possibly peanuts which he eats and crunches away at his heart's delight. A generous man would pass his nice things around, but not he ! The crunching and other pleasant noises, which some men make while eating, are for the enjoyment of others ; the peanuts and candy are for his hungry self. But to all hungry men we would give this advice, that, if they must eat, they take a better...
...leavin' the dust on things, sor, a purpose. Yer see, sor, I onct heard that a good painter always made his pictures look kind 'o dusty loike. That, sor, 's why I have the dust in some 'o my rooms, becus it makes 'em look loike rale nice paintings. Thin, too, sor, it makes 'em look more antique loike. Let me till yer, sor, a trick o' the trade that we all has. Yer see, if we lite things git covered up with dust, they disappears so gradual loike that they arn't noticed when they gits all buried. Thin...
...nobody what can make beds the loike 'o me. I well remembers the time whin me little boy tommy was down with the fever, he's dead now, sor, and it's a poor woman that I am, sor, -whin I found in one 'o the beds sich a nice soft blanket, sor, that I knowed it wud make him well, sor; so I jest borrowed it fer a day or two, sor, and it cured him completely. I've always felt so grateful loike ter that blanket that I've niver been able ter part with...