Talk about trying to cure
warts with spunk- water such a blame fool way as that!
"Oh, the
warts will all disappear before you grow up," said Cecily.
'Have all gentlemen's servants
warts upon their noses, mother?' asked Nicholas.
She had to sit with Gertie Pye and she hated it; Gertie squeaked her pencil all the time and it just made her--Diana's--blood run cold; Ruby Gillis had charmed all her
warts away, true's you live, with a magic pebble that old Mary Joe from the Creek gave her.
It is, in fact, stated, that it was of enormous size, hooked in the middle, covered with
warts, and of a mulberry colour like an egg-plant; it hung down two fingers' length below his mouth, and the size, the colour, the
warts, and the bend of it, made his face so hideous, that Sancho, as he looked at him, began to tremble hand and foot like a child in convulsions, and he vowed in his heart to let himself be given two hundred buffets, sooner than be provoked to fight that monster.
These noses were made of bamboo, and were five, six, and even ten feet long, some straight, others curved, some ribboned, and some having imitation
warts upon them.
I learned to play at cricket, to hate rich people, to cure
warts, to write Latin verses, to swim, to recite speeches, to cook kidneys on toast, to draw caricatures of the masters, to construe Greek plays, to black boots, and to receive kicks and serious advice resignedly.
But one day a bill imposing a tax on
warts was defeated -- the members of the Government party had not been nailed to their seats!
A PERSON with a
Wart on His Nose met a Person Similarly Afflicted, and said:
After dinner Benjy called attention to a
wart which Tom had on the knuckles of his hand, and which the family doctor had been trying his skill on without success, and begged the farmer to charm it away.
When at last he was made fast and seemed quite helpless and beyond the faintest hope of succour, Rokoff's shrivelled
wart of courage swelled to its usual proportions when danger was not present.
Then there was a man further along who had no eyes, and whose face was the color of a fly-blown beefsteak, and wrinkled and twisted like a lava-flow--and verily so tumbled and distorted were his features that no man could tell the
wart that served him for a nose from his cheek-bones.
