That this, as well as other clays, is streaked and variegated, is owing to the mixture and insinuation of differently coloured, moistened and dissolved portions of earth. Hence the various colours of veined marble, colours inserted, during the liquescent state of marbles, by the concourse of differently shaded earths.
We must dig hard to get the big “Razor-fish"—a clam with a shell that looks like an old-fashioned razor case, but open at either end. Fisher boys get the razor clam by pushing a kind of corkscrew into the sand […]
The growing independence of the state was expressed as French absolutism and English parliamentarianism.
This habit you have contracted of being a little boy, his mamma said to him, "is most inconvenient. Your name was to be Vivien. Vivien is early English, and picturesque and full of color; Vivian, which is a boy's name, I don't think so much of. - - -
