Weston naming one family of cousins who must be included, and another of very old acquaintance who could not be left out, it became a certainty that the five
couple would be at least ten, and a very interesting speculation in what possible manner they could be disposed of.
A short sketch of that felicity which prudent
couples may extract from hatred: with a short apology for those people who overlook imperfections in their friends.
Now the servant came into the kitchen, and when she saw the salad standing there ready cooked she was about to carry it up, but on the way, according to her old habit, she tasted it and ate a
couple of leaves.
Of the rushing
couples there could barely be discerned more than the high lights--the indistinctness shaping them to satyrs clasping nymphs--a multiplicity of Pans whirling a multiplicity of Syrinxes; Lotis attempting to elude Priapus, and always failing.
About the middle of the afternoon a
couple of little boats come along, but they didn't come from high enough up the river; but at last there was a big one, and they hailed her.
He put up that scheme on us and reasoned out what we would do, and we went ahead and done it perfectly exact, like a
couple of pudd'nheads.
I sweated out my thousand words a day, every day, except when the shock of fever smote me, or a
couple of nasty squalls smote the Snark, in the morning.
The priest addressed a hasty homily to the pair on the perils of life, on the duties they must, some day, inculcate upon their children,--throwing in, at this point, an indirect reproach to Ginevra on the absence of her parents; then, after uniting them before God, as the mayor had united them before the law, he left the now married
couple.
This young
couple formed at length the healthy resolution of interchanging their discoveries, openly, sensibly, and tenderly.
We can get a
couple of dances in before we eat," Mary proposed.
The wedding was duly performed and the young
couple sat down to the wedding-feast.
I should be sorry if my conscience, insisting on a rigid attention to the matter in hand, forced me to dismiss him in a
couple of lines.
In the house that poetic dullness and quiet reigned which always accompanies the presence of a betrothed
couple.
A devil born to a young
couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old
couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin.
There were three other
couples, following the bride and bridegroom: first, Martin Poyser, looking as cheery as a bright fire on this rimy morning, led quiet Mary Burge, the bridesmaid; then came Seth serenely happy, with Mrs.