"I've tasted worse smoking mixtures in a pipe," he added, with a philosophic shrug of his shoulders, as he took a couple of cigars from the case I offered him, putting one in his mouth and the other in his pocket.
"Well," continued her philosophic mother, "I am glad I did not know of your journey at the time; but now it is all over, perhaps there is no great harm done.
Grandpa Hodge was the most popular sage in the village because he was so philosophic inspeaking and doing things that everyone revered him as "Grandpa Wisdom".
For me the sight of these small living creatures, solitary and fragile against the brute force of the sea, had moving philosophic overtones, and I do not pretend that Roger and I reacted with similar emotions.
Grandpa Hodge was the most popular sage in the village because he was so philosophic in speaking and doing things that everyone revered him as "Grandpa Wisdom".
Neither he nor I ought to be elected, because the paper would become an aristocratic or philosophic newspaper, a beau monde paper, run by high society.
