madge


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madge

(mædʒ)
n
(Metallurgy) a type of hammer used in silver-plating
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I am a beauty-merchant, a trader in song, and I pursue utility, dear Madge. I sing a song, and thanks to the magazine editors I transmute my song into a waft of the west wind sighing through our redwoods, into a murmur of waters over mossy stones that sings back to me another song than the one I sang and yet the same song wonderfully - er - transmuted."
When Walt Irvine went down to inspect the intruder, he was snarled at for his pains, and Madge likewise was snarled at when she went down to present, as a peace-offering, a large pan of bread and milk.
His history began with Walt and Madge. He had come up from the south, but never a clew did they get of the owner from whom he had evidently fled.
Madge's skirts were something he never quite accepted.
On the other hand, it was Madge who fed him; also it was she who ruled the kitchen, and it was by her favor, and her favor alone, that he was permitted to come within that sacred precinct.
"You're not her Klondike brother!" Madge cried, her eyes bright with interest, "about whom we've heard so much?"
Only you've come by the foot- path." Madge stood up to direct him, pointing up the canyon a quarter of a mile.
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"Madge, go away," said Miss Avery, still invisible.
"Well, if you'll excuse me," said Madge, "perhaps I ought to be leaving you now.
Relieved at this conclusion, and having sent her compliments to Madge, Margaret walked back to the station.
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It was always for the sake of that particular scene that Newland Archer went to see "The Shaughraun." He thought the adieux of Montague and Ada Dyas as fine as anything he had ever seen Croisette and Bressant do in Paris, or Madge Robertson and Kendal in London; in its reticence, its dumb sorrow, it moved him more than the most famous histrionic outpourings.
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Leaning her head against the chimney-piece, with a great assumption of dignity and refinement of manner, sat an elderly female, in as many scraps of finery as Madge Wildfire herself.
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