I can’t help it,” said Tate, picking nervously at the wart on her thumb.
You remember how the minister told him if other peoples business had a button-hole in it, Pa could button the wart in the button-hole, as he always had his nose there.
The only drawback to his military ardour and satisfaction was a regret that Wart could not be permitted to accompany him.
This makes it difficult to decide whether Wart was his bosom friend or his mortal enemy.
Urged by American buyers, Mr. Van Wart purchased very large quantities of Birmingham and other goods, which he shipped to New York.
After a few years, Mr. Van Wart finally removed to "The Shrubbery" in Hagley Road, where he continued to reside until his death.
Mr. Van Wart was an American by birth, and a Dutchman by descent.
Those who had the pleasure of the acquaintance of Mrs. Van Wart say that he always treated her with remarkable deference and consideration, "as if she were a superior being.
As an English politician, Mr. Van Wart was neither very active nor very ardent.
Soon after the birth of his second son, Irving, in 1808, Mr. Van Wart returned to England with his family, and commenced business in Birmingham.
During the whole of that long time, up to within a few weeks of his death, Mr. Van Wart never missed paying him a visit every Saturday evening.
As already stated, Mr. Van Wart was born a few days after England had acknowledged the independence of America.
One can only see one eye," observed Damoiselle Guillemette; "there is a wart on the other.
Gogs breade, Hodg, thou had a good turne thou wart not here [this while]!
Wart not thou take within this houre in Dame Chats hens nest?
Each wartis similarly treated, a separate pin being used for each.
An old-fashioned remedy for a wart consisted in pricking it with a sharp Gooseberry-thorn passed through a wedding-ring.
In Italy, as a charm to cure warts, Peach-leaves are carefully buried in the earth, so that as they perish the wart may disappear.
I will tell your worship more of the wart the next time we have confidence; and of other wooers.
The Wart Hog has a very anomalous dentition, for as age advances all the teeth except the canines and last molars show signs of disappearing; both pairs of persisting teeth are however very large.
In the Wart Hog, Phacochaerus, they are enormously large, but a still more extraordinary development of teeth is found in Babirussa.
A drop of cinnamon oil on each wart daily, continued for a fortnight, will usually remove them.
The most successful remedy we have ever tried is to have thewart saturated three times a week for three weeks with the saliva of a person of positive magnetism, not a member of the family.
I found him standing in the middle of a swift chute with his rod bent double and a long line out.
The Rockies have a sweep, a limitless sweep, majestic and grand.
Sir (cried the Doctor) it is naturally a tender part; but to remove all possibility of doubt, I will take off the wart this very night.
Simultaneously the other cruisers had opened upon Lerwick and the German works on the Wart of Bressay, firing their 12-in.
Small guns could be made out on Fort Charlotte and the Wart of Bressay, and two heavy weapons in position near Lerwick behind newly-raised earthworks.
Her smaller guns at this short range were most effective; the 3-pounders played on the German works on the Wart of Bressay, and drove the remnant of the force holding them to flight.
Statement of Van Wart (from the National Intelligencer of Feb.
Tom's wart was gone in a fortnight, but not so Benjy's rheumatism, which laid him by the heels more and more.
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.
Mr. Green lay senseless on the road, in a pool of blood, arising from the severity of the blow, which tore away the whole scalp of the forehead, together with the entire wartor excrescence which grew thereupon.
Another mode of transferring warts is to touch each wart with a pebble, and place the pebbles in a bag, which should be lost on the way to church; whoever finds the bag gets the warts.
A common Warwickshire custom was to rub the warts with a black snail, stick the snail on a thorn bush, and then, say the folks, as the snail dies so will the wart disappear.
It was no longer the passenger with the wart who sat opposite him, but Donna Ester, all enveloped in a great black cape, a broad-brimmed hat upon her head.
The gentleman with the wart placed his travelling-bag on the seat that was now vacant, but none of the other passengers gave any sign of having noticed what had happened.
But, for God's sake, are you going to sit here like a wart on a dead dog an' wait for 'em?
You remember how the minister told him if other peoples' business had a button hole in it, Pa could button the wart in the button-hole, as he always had his nose there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
