The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure A
second-hand dagger-proof coat-- So the Baker advised it-- and next, to insure Its life in some Office of note:
Mortimer's second visit, that Billy drove in with a load of pipe; and house, chicken yards, and barn were piped from the second-hand tank he installed below the house-spring.
I got a big second-hand one staked out that I can get for ten dollars, an' it'll pump more water'n I need.
But if he spoke of the delights of the atmosphere of Mr Brass's office in a literal sense, he had certainly a peculiar taste, as it was of a close and earthy kind, and, besides being frequently impregnated with strong whiffs of the
second-hand wearing apparel exposed for sale in Duke's Place and Houndsditch, had a decided flavour of rats and mice, and a taint of mouldiness.
I quickly found myself a tiny apartment on the fifth floor of a house in the Rue des Dames, and for a couple of hundred francs bought at a
second-hand dealer's enough furniture to make it habitable.
"I was going down the street here when I happened to stop and look in at the musical instruments in the shop-window--a friend of mine is in want of a second-hand wiolinceller of a good tone--and I saw a party enjoying themselves, and I thought it was you in the corner; I thought I couldn't be mistaken.
Do you think father could recommend a second-hand wiolinceller of a good tone for Mr.
I sold my hard-bought school books for ridiculous sums to
second-hand bookmen.
Even the fragments of his words when "repeated at
second-hand" have in all ages ravished the hearts of men, who have seen reflected in them their own higher nature.
"Well, on the 5th of February, he sold the fine carriage, and bought a cheap
second-hand one--said it would answer just as well to take the money home in, and he didn't care for style.
This place, to which only a chosen few were admitted, looked like a chapel and a
second-hand shop, so filled was it with devotional and heterogeneous things.
At last he came upon an elderly, crusty Jew, who sold
second-hand articles, and from whom he purchased a dress of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otter-skin pelisse, for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy-five pounds.