The two active young men were brothers who lived in the next village to his, and the pig had been theirs--so Kwaque narrated in atrocious beche-de-mer English.
As for King William Island, the Makambo, on the former run of the Cockspur, stopped there every ten weeks; but the direst threat Daughtry ever held over him was the putting ashore of him at the place where the two active young men still mourned their pig.
In the second stage, answering to the chrysalis stage of butterflies, they have six pairs of beautifully constructed natatory legs, a pair of magnificent compound eyes, and extremely complex antennae; but they have a closed and imperfect mouth, and cannot feed: their function at this stage is, to search by their well-developed organs of sense, and to reach by their
active powers of swimming, a proper place on which to become attached and to undergo their final metamorphosis.
The lady was about his own age - i.e., between thirty and forty - remarkable neither for beauty, nor wealth, nor brilliant accomplishments; nor any other thing that I ever heard of, except genuine good sense, unswerving integrity,
active piety, warm-hearted benevolence, and a fund of cheerful spirits.
But his coming for me as he did, with such
active, such ready friendship, is enough to prove him one of the worthiest of men."
This
active leader, it will be recollected, had embarked the year previously in skin-boats on the Bighorn, freighted with the year's collection of peltries.
He thought of Rose all through the holidays, and his fancy was
active with the things they would do together next term.
This principle, therefore, prevented him from any thought of making his fortune by such means (for this, as I have said, is an
active principle, and doth not content itself with knowledge or belief only).
And besides, to speak truth, in base times,
active men are of more use than virtuous.
After what seemed an eternity to the little sufferer he was able to walk once more, and from then on his recovery was so rapid that in another month he was as strong and
active as ever.
Now at last Milton was drawn into
active public life.
The pause was only momentary, however; and long before the drowsy eyes of the sentinel, who overlooked the spot where she stood, had time to catch a glimpse of her
active form, it had glided along the bottom, and stood on the summit of the nearest eminence.