The crow iz a tuff bird, and kan stand the heat like a blacksmith, and the cold like a stun wall.
This is trew, but it is tuff to know how to do it.
Pluck iz a normal virtue, and may be made a shining one, az it iz only the tuff substances that will take, and hold a good polish.
I hav endeavored tew translate mi author cluss, but it iz tuff tew render aul his butiz intu our tung, without bursting the sense.
Humurous lekturs, without the aid ov canvass or pantomime, are tuff tew do.
A specimen of the tuff from the summit is made up of compacted fragments, in size ranging up to one third of an inch, of a bottle-green vacuolar glass, which fuses readily in a lamp-flame and is not dissolved by hydrochloric acid.
Palagonite-tuff clays are also exposed in the river-course a little above Vunimbua.
The blocks in the agglomerate-tuff are either angular or sub-angular, and are less than a foot across.
It shows calcite and pyrites, and is interesting from the fact that although it is made up largely of basic glass the tuff does not seem to have undergone the palagonitic change.
The hill is, however, formed in mass of a compacted tuff or agglomerate tuff built up of materials of a hyalomelan basic glass that has undergone partial conversion into palagonite.
The tuff is made up of minute fragments, the largest less than ยท1 mm.
Beneath this is the calcareous foraminiferous palagonite-tuff referred to in the first paragraph.
The tuffconsists of fragments of a brown basic glass, the larger 1 to 2 millimetres in size, carrying porphyritic plagioclase, and fractured in position, the interspaces being filled with palagonite.
Large blocks of a hard and somewhat altered palagonitic tuff lie around the bathing pools.
Here the sea-cliffs and the shore-flat are formed of an agglomerate tuffpenetrated in all directions by veins of calcite, an inch and under in thickness.
A curious case of polarity is exhibited in a bare tuff overlooking the Vui-na-Savu River between Rauriko and Vitina.
The change from ordinary scoriaceous particles to the substance with a semi-resinous fracture, could be clearly followed in portions of the compact tuff of these dikes.
It at first appears very singular, that all the craters formed of tuff have their southern sides, either quite broken down and wholly removed, or much lower than the other sides.
Two craters of tuff on this island are the only remaining ones which require any notice.
The tuff is traversed by several broad, vertical dikes, with smooth and parallel sides, which I did not doubt were formed of basalt, until I actually broke off fragments.
I may remark, that I saw at Terceira, in the Azores, a crater of tuff or peperino, very similar to these of the Galapagos Archipelago.
Its bottom is occupied by a lake of brine, out of which some little crateriform hills of tuff rise.
This harbour occupies part of the interior of a shattered crater of tuff larger than that last described.
This upper tuff contains numerous pisolitic balls, about the size of small bullets, which differ from the surrounding matter, only in being slightly harder and finer grained.
The chief part consists of red decomposing scoriae, associated with various kinds of tuff and yellow argillaceous beds, full of broken crystals, those of augite being particularly large.
All the tuff is compact, and includes numerous fragments of lava; it appears like a subaqueous deposit.
As early as the year 1700, a human skull was dug out of the calcareous tuff of Constatt, in company with the bones of the mammoth.
The tuff is light and porous, and none of the bones penetrate into the more compact rock.
The skull from the calcareous tuff of Constatt, in its low, narrow forehead and strong superciliary arches, resembles the Neanderthal.
Poor Orrin could not sleep a wink, But lay awake all night to think How sad the fate ofTuff might be, Who late was in prosperity.
The westering sun had low declined, When homeward with an easy mind Good Orrin turned his horses' feet, Expecting there his dog to meet; But drawing near, no Tuff was found To greet him with accustomed sound.
He lives for Master Orrin Todd And worships him as household god; With him Tuff wildly romps and plays, And from his side but seldom strays.
Out jumped brave Tuff and Farmer Todd, But scarce had gone a single rod Before they heard: "Bow-wow!
Unchecked they raced and chased around, A lawless cur and recreant hound; They took no note of time, nor cared How far they strayed nor how they fared; For Tuff could not foresee his woes Till darkness did around him close.
Tuff answered: "Do you doubt, dear friend, That I shall thank you to the end?
Then Tuff leaped in and sat erect As if to show his intellect, When off they rode with hearts of glee, And warmer friends you rarely see.
But Todd in sweet forgiving mood Spread Tuff a couch and gave him food, And bade him now find rest in sleep, And thus forget his sorrows deep.
Our Tuff can talk like dogs of old Of whom in fable AEsop told.
This gold was well got for my old tuff Souldier, Now I shall be his sweet again; what business Is this she has a foot?
O ye tuff Rogue, what troubles have I trotted through!
It is of pinkish, slaty tuff of rather low specific gravity, somewhat vesicular and pulverulent, though moderately hard and tough.
Having thus delivered himself Tuffsauntered down the Bowery, and presently from all points of the compass a tremendous rabble began to pour into Astor Place and to mass itself in front of the Cooper Union.
Tuff himself reappeared in a few moments, and when Colonel Sneekins gave the signal for the doors to be opened Tuff and his friends took easy and complete possession of the house.
This certainly seems to have taken place in some recent volcanic archipelagos, as at the Galapagos, where numerous craters are exclusively formed of tuff and fragments of lava.
These lavas are conformably associated with strata of breccia and of brown tuff containing lignite.
The beds are obscurely separated from each other; they are sometimes parted by seams of tuff and layers of pebbles.
This tuff appears to the eye nearly pure; but when placed in acid it leaves a considerable residue of sand and broken crystals, apparently of feldspar.
Upper Eocene shells and bones of mammalia, the higher beds of which sometimes alternate with volcanictuff of contemporaneous origin.
At St. Privat d'Allier a bed of volcanic scoriae and tuffwas discovered by Dr.
Clay, marl, and volcanic tuff } All the shells of living { of Ischia, p.
Philippi collected in the stratified tuff and clay ninety-two species of shells of existing species.
The amygdaloidal traps also occur, and even tuff and breccia, for the materials of these last may be washed down into open fissures at the bottom of the sea, or during eruptions on the land may be showered into them from the air.
Dikes of vesicular and amygdaloidal lava are also seen traversing marine tuff or peperino, west of Palagonia, some of the pores of the lava being empty, while others are filled with carbonate of lime.
A kind of tuff or mud poured out by lake craters during eruptions; common in the Eifel, in Germany.
But at a later period, when a considerable thickness of sandstone and marl had accumulated, eruptions broke out, and lava and tuff were deposited, at some spots, alternately with the lacustrine strata.
In the tuff I found fragments of carboniferous shale and limestone, and intersecting veins of greenstone.
Hibbert, inclosed between two sheets of basaltic lava; and in this tuff were found the bones of several quadrupeds, some of them adhering to masses of slaggy lava.
A] Another example occurs in the Puy de Marmont, near Veyres, where a freshwater marl alternates with volcanic tuff containing Eocene shells.
A] At Cannstadt, near Stuttgart, in a valley also belonging to the hydrographical basin of the Rhine, I have seen the loess pass downwards into beds of calcareous tuff and travertin.
I'se brought 'tuff to make dat, but had no time to look for berries for skin.
Here it is, dis time a little wine wid de water and a little 'tuff to make you sleep quiet.
Me hurry, sah, but can't get 'tuff to stain you skin to-night.
In its center there would have to be an old, modest fountain of yellowish tuff and with a bowl of broken porphyry.
On one side of the fountain a semicircular bench of tuff and terracotta.
They shed their feathers by having them pulled out, and these feathers make a good, tuff bed.
I dont want them good old times tew cum back agin, we aint pure enuff now tew stand them, neither are we tuff enuff.
A flirt iz a tuff thing to overhaul, unless the right dog gits after her, and they are the eazyest ov all tew ketch, and often make the best ov wives.
Bread solid, beef stake about az thik az a blister plaster, and so tuff az a hound's ear.
That if enny boddy loozes even a goose i will weep with him, for it iz a tuff bizness tew looze a goose.
Tha are verry tuff ov life, and will outlive an injun rubber shoe, and don't seem tew gro old enny faster than a paving stone duz.
Illustration] We beleave man iz a free moral kritter, but full ov cussidness, and if he iz determined tew eattuff beef, and drink pizon whisky, we hold that he probably will.
I do want sum ov them good, old-fashioned, tuff girl names revived and extended.
I should really like tew kno how they are gitting along; rather tuff times for them i guess, yu don't think they will winter, do yu?
Broiled patridge iz good if yu kan git one that waz born during the present century, but thare iz a grate menny patridge around that waz with Noah in the ark, and they are az tuff tew git the meat oph ov az a hoss shu.
They are az freckled az a coach dog, and just about az tufftew eat az a half-biled krow.
Before they become consolidated the finer fragmental lava, of whatever composition, is called volcanic dust, and the coarser lapilli or volcanic sand; while the consolidated materials are known as tuff and agglomerate respectively.
The floor of this bay is composed of puzzolana, a name given to beds of volcanic tuff of great thickness, and rising into considerable hills in the vicinity of the city of Naples, such as that of St. Elmo.
Forms of volcanic tuff cones, with their cross-sections, in the Province of Auckland.
But assuming this to be the case, he shows how the individual to whom it belonged might have been enveloped in volcanic tuff or mud showered down during the final eruption of the volcano of Demise.
The tuff consists of white felspathic mud, with fragments of slate and lava, reaching a depth in some places of 150 feet.
Outer tuff cone with interior cinder cone and crater; No.
On walking down the valley one may sometimes see the junction of the tuff with the slate-rock which enfolds it.
The felspathic lavas, with their associated beds of tuff and breccia, rise into some of the grandest mountain crests of North Wales, such as those of Cader Idris, Aran Mowddwy, Arenig and Moel Wyn.
This tuff is found abundantly filling up valleys in beds of 10 or 20 feet deep, in the north of Ireland, among the schistose formations upon the banks of the Rhine, and at Monheim in Bavaria.
The bare cliffs of tuff constituted a natural means of defense, and where they were low, walls were built.
That tuff he considers a product of the latest eruption of the volcano.
Such a fauna is found fossil in another layer of tuff covering the slope of Denise, opposite to that where the museum specimen was exhumed.
Its tuff-tuff went on brutally through the stillness.
Lava flows and beds of tuff appear to have originated but yesterday, and shallow lava-dammed lakes retain their original shore relations.
Some are of lava, others consist of ashes, still others of tuff and lava and ashes.
To them the bells are a instrument of torture jest as tuff to bear as any of the other old thumb screws and racks that wrung and racked our old 4 fathers in the name of Religion.
And it come fearfultuff on me, fearful tuff, for I had to stand the brunt on it.
It wuz a fearful tuff job we had took onto ourselves, for we had got to make all the things to sell out of what we could get holt of, for, of course, our husbands all kep the money purses in their own hands, as the way of male pardners is.
