'Not for
miscellaneous working in, I grant you, Mr Wegg; but you might turn out valuable yet, as a--' here Mr Venus takes a gulp of tea, so hot that it makes him choke, and sets his weak eyes watering; 'as a Monstrosity, if you'll excuse me.'
There were also political and satirical songs and
miscellaneous poems of various sorts, among them certain 'Bestiaries,' accounts of the supposed habits of animals, generally drawn originally from classical tradition, and most of them highly fantastic and allegorized in the interests of morality and religion.
These shall now be discussed; but as the subject has been drawn into great length, I shall so far consult brevity as to comprise all my observations on these
miscellaneous points in a single paper.
My head grovelled in the ashes of an extinguished fire, while my feet reposed upon the wreck of a small table, overthrown, and amid the fragments of a
miscellaneous dessert, intermingled with a newspaper, some broken glass and shattered bottles, and an empty jug of the Schiedam Kirschenwasser.
She was naturally the subject of many observations this evening, for the dinner-party was large and rather more
miscellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr.
Her experience and
miscellaneous reading were of service now, for they gave her some idea of dramatic effect, and supplied plot, language, and costumes.
The other half of the second page is made up of two paragraphs under the head of "
Miscellaneous News." One of these paragraphs tells about a quarrel between the Czar of Russia and his eldest son, twenty-one and a half lines; and the other tells about the atrocious destruction of a peasant child by its parents, forty lines, or one-fifth of the total of the reading-matter contained in the paper.
The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of
miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering.
"But I don't travel about with a
miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century historians!" her uncle exclaimed.
In one
miscellaneous section he came upon a "Norrie's Epitome." He turned the pages reverently.
'It is certainly a very painful occurrence,' said Brass with a sigh, as he dived into one of Kit's pockets, and fished up a
miscellaneous collection of small articles; 'very painful.
Tom went aboard one of the big transient boats that night with his heavy satchel of
miscellaneous plunder, and slept the sleep of the unjust, which is serener and sounder than the other kind, as we know by the hanging-eve history of a million rascals.