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"Do you know, I wish so much you could come down stairs," she said techily, "I am lonesome every second for you," and kneeling on one knee beside him, the lovely girl encircled the old man's neck with her bare white arms, caressing him childishly.

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

The over earnest, like the women folk, are better not handled at all or handled techily.

The Miller of Old Church 1911

The low gurgling music of the little waves that creep techily over and under the hanging boughs that teaze and obstruct them in their onward passage, the crowded leaves, rubbing their swaying heads affectionately together; the gentle wind resting in sighs of relief upon the graceful tree tops, and sending its messages of love from bough to bough, until it spends itself upon the quiet bosom of the waters below; the love-sick birds that woo our beauteous nature in this, her bewitching costume, with their rich and rarest warblings, vie with one another in chanting from their ruffled throats their little tales of ecstasy and love, all teach us clearly, that out in the busy world there is no witchery like this.

Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera

"The over earnest, like the women folk, are better not handled at all or handled techily.

The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909