Word: rodding
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This, then, is the question of the hour - athlete or aesthete? muscle or art? bread and butter or daisies? Are we to dine upon sun-flowers cooked with cat-tails, and be invited to sup upon golden rod and dandelions, with a lily or two to complete the inspiration? Are English beef and ale to be consigned to oblivion? Must everybody become wizen and waxen...
...afternoon, and while standing on the main street put a cap on his gun, which, as he supposed, was unloaded. By some unexplained means the gun was discharged in his hands and the whole charge lodged in the back of Howe who was walking by at less than a rod's distance. The injuries inflicted were so severe that he died in about three hours. Howe was a fine scholar, a true Christian, and an only son, and his death will be keenly felt by every one who knew...
...joyous song that had been singing so continuously all through his life is hushed and almost smothered by the sobs of this great sorrow, while "all that are about him bemoan him; all that know his name say now is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod." At this interruption of his earthly life we reverently pause and ask, What virtues has it made emphatic? What lessons has it taught...
...Jimmie always took Apollinaris Water in the morning. Charlie preferred a "bracer." Jimmie believed in the proverb, "Spare the rod and spoil the child;" Charlie didn't. Jimmie thought it the best policy always to borrow, never to lend; so did Charlie. To sum up, their characters were similar in many respects and very different in others; it has often fitly been said of them that they were "clinky and didn't congeal...
...their rod and line...