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Sociable at all times, and freely consorting with other Limicoline species on the coast, in winter, especially, the Redshank becomes very gregarious.

This Duck probably pairs for life; in the breeding season it is certainly social, many males consorting together, and many females making their nests within a small area.

A form or variety of the Brent Goose, with the under parts below the breast nearly white, is commonly found consorting with birds of the typical colour.

” And it is one of the curious facts about bird life here, that so many of the birds that we know only as solitary and not at all given to consorting in flocks, either with their own species or any other, save at their breeding stations, frequently do show a complete difference of habit in this respect in this country.

Like a dingy London bird among the birds at roost in these pleasant fields, where the sheep are all made into parchment, the goats into wigs, and the pasture into chaff, the lawyer, smoke-dried and faded, dwelling among mankind but not consorting with them, aged without experience of genial youth, and so long used to make his cramped nest in holes and corners of human nature that he has forgotten its broader and better range, comes sauntering home.

The requisite campaign-finance article notes that Clinton, who has been an avid fund-raiser since his days as governor, loves consorting with rich people.

(2/17) The Clinton administration released documents showing that the National Security Council had warned the White House against consorting with shady characters who have since become infamous in the Democratic campaign-finance scandal .

Backed by the federal monitors, he stripped 70 corrupt locals of their autonomy, placed them in trusteeship, and purged hundreds of local officials for consorting with mobsters.

I would have liked to meet Benford, but I couldn't stand to watch the author of Great Sky River demeaning himself by consorting with such disreputable company.

txt Lying All the Way to the Bank By Jacob Weisberg On the last day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, I woke to the news that presidential adviser Dick Morris was about to resign over reports that he had been consorting with a $200-an-hour prostitute.

Posada's tale of anti-Castro ops, which includes a series of Havana hotel bombings last year, alleges considerable consorting with the CIA.

The story states the Justice Department explanation of why such consorting is not an anti-trust issue the way it says Microsoft's activities are: "monopolies and their competitors play by different rules.

The founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, consorting with alchemists and astrologers, was treasuring the manuscripts of the late pious Dr.

Her knowledge (argued I to myself) must be all theory; and the complaisance ever consorting with an age so green and so gay, will make so inexperienced a lady at least forbear to show herself disgusted at freedoms of discourse in which those present of her own sex, and some of ours, (so learned, so well read, and so travelled,) allow themselves. * See Vol.

It is only by inquiry and perseverance that one sometimes gets hints of those secrets; and by a similar diligence every person who treads the Pall Mall pavement and frequents the clubs of this metropolis knows, either through his own experience or through some acquaintance with whom he plays at billiards or shares the joint, something about the genteel world of London, and how, as there are men (such as Rawdon Crawley, whose position we mentioned before) who cut a good figure to the eyes of the ignorant world and to the apprentices in the park, who behold them consorting with the most notorious dandies there, so there are ladies, who may be called men's women, being welcomed entirely by all the gentlemen and cut or slighted by all their wives.

Your eyebrows have become as thick as my finger, and your forehead resembles what, in some very astonishing poetry, I once saw styled, ‘a blue-piled thunderloft.’ That will be your married look, sir, I suppose?” “If that will be your married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander.

Yes, they can all play the hypocrite when they want to take in a fond, misguided woman!’ ‘Well, I think he’s about as good as she is,’ said I. ‘But when Mr. Huntingdon is married, he won’t have many opportunities of consorting with his bachelor friends;-and the worse they are, the more I long to deliver him from them.’ ‘To be sure, my dear; and the worse he is, I suppose, the more you long to deliver him from himself.’ ‘Yes, provided he is not incorrigible-that is, the more I long to deliver him from his faults-to give him an opportunity of shaking off the adventitious evil got from contact with others worse than himself, and shining out in the unclouded light of his own genuine goodness-to do my utmost to help his better self against his worse, and make him what he would have been if he had not, from the beginning, had a bad, selfish, miserly father, who, to gratify his own sordid passions, restricted him in the most innocent enjoyments of childhood and youth, and so disgusted him with every kind of restraint;-and a foolish mother who indulged him to the top of his bent, deceiving her husband for him, and doing her utmost to encourage those germs of folly and vice it was her duty to suppress,-and then, such a set of companions as you represent his friends to be-’ ‘Poor man!’ said she, sarcastically, ‘his kind have greatly wronged him!’ ‘They have!’ cried I-‘and they shall wrong him no more-his wife shall undo what his mother did!’ ‘Well,’ said she, after a short pause, ‘I must say, Helen, I thought better of your judgment than this-and your taste too.

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