I remember," said he, "when I first took to the business, there was a great deal of
low stuff that did very well to make folks laugh; but was never calculated to improve the morals of young people, which certainly ought to be principally aimed at in every puppet-show: for why may not good and instructive lessons be conveyed this way, as well as any other?
Here and there were slight outcroppings of quartz-bearing rock which glistened in the sunlight; and a little to my left, perhaps a hundred yards, appeared a
low, walled enclosure about four feet in height.
'That he is a
low, mercenary wretch; that I first saw him prowling about Italy (where I was, not long ago), and that I hired him there, as the suitable instrument of a purpose I happened to have; I have no objection to tell you.
The
low levels of most of the Saharan Sanatoria are against them except at the outset of the disease.
After penetrating through the brush, matted as it was with briars, for a few hundred feet, he entered an open space, that surrounded a
low, green hillock, which was crowned by the decayed blockhouse in question.
Now Giafar had something of importance to say to the Caliph, and had no intention of being put off by mere silence, so with another
low bow in front of the throne, he began to speak.
We heard her
low voice, and then, in a voice I did not recognise the answer:
He raised his head and leaning far out over the
low rail that rimmed his dizzy perch, voiced the shrill, weird wail that called the demons of this hellish place to the attack.
Tarzan knew the note, and he knew that it spelled neither rage nor hunger, and then he risked all on a single throw, encouraged by that
low whine.
Mr Venus, always in exceedingly
low spirits and making whimpering sounds, peers about for the stuffed canary.
These, from the effects of the elevation and of the impetuous winds, were
low, thick and crooked.
The coun- try at the back of Brenzett is
low and flat, but the bay is fairly well sheltered from the seas, and occa- sionally a big ship, windbound or through stress of weather, makes use of the anchoring ground a mile and a half due north from you as you stand at the back door of the "Ship Inn" in Brenzett.